Mexico Container Port Volumes Up 3.2% in 2016

Container volumes increased by 3.2% in 2016 in Mexican ports according to figures published by the Mexican Secretariat of Communications and Transport, which oversees the port system.

News ID: 72461

Date: 19 February 2017 - 13:45

Mexican ports throughput last year reached 5.7m teu, up from 5.5m teu although cargo volumes grew less in 2016 than in 2015, MANA correspondent reported.

In Manzanillo, which is Mexico’s largest port, “we will receive during the first quarter of the year two additional super post-panamax cranes, 24 wide and nine high on deck which will be operational in second quarter 2017.

In Lazaro Cardenas we have started the construction of the specialised ro-ro terminal that would start operations in the fourth quarter, 2017.