Countries Compete to Lure Manufacturers From China

On a recent trip to Mexico, a small delegation of China-based business executives got a lavish welcome, meeting with a parade of top officials, including the country’s foreign minister, its finance minister, Mexico’s ambassador to China and provincial heads of government.  more…

State of New Mexico plans critical expansion at the Dona Ana County Border Cross

Santa Teresa’s Port of entry has exploded as a trade zone. New Mexico received nearly twelve thousand commercial crossings each month — only a small part of the traffic neighboring ports El Paso received each month.   mas…

How New Mexico plans to take a bite from Texas’ trade with Mexico

Truck traffic in the Santa Teresa border crossing has doubled in the past 10 years amid concerns about enhanced inspections ordered by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.  mas…

Plan for border rail bypass construction moves forward

The plan to build a rail bypass and a rail border crossing between Santa Teresa and San Jerónimo entered a new phase in New Mexico, where last Sunday a tender for the feasibility study to seek a presidential permit to develop the binational project was published.  mas…

Union Pacific CEO: Santa Teresa is future of company

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Union Pacific unveils $400M Santa Teresa rail facility

The facility includes one of Union Pacific’s largest fueling facilities and the railroads’s largest intermodal freight terminal along the U.S.-Mexico border. The 300-acre, high-tech intermodal terminal opened April 1 and is expected to process more than 170,000 freight containers this year, and many more in the future, from West Coast ship ports and inland terminals in Chicago and other metro areas.  more…

UP’s New Mexico Hub Expands Shippers’ Cross-Border Options

SANTA TERESA, N.M. — There’s not much out here other than roads, warehouses and cacti — and now a sprawling Union Pacific Railway intermodal terminal and fueling station. Secluded as it is, what happens at this $400 million facility in a desert framed by mountains ripples through UP’s 32,000-mile U.S. network and taps into one of the largest trends in transportation rail: domestic rail growth.  more…

UP’s New Mexico Hub Expands Shippers’ Cross-Border Options

The border crossing got a big boost in 2009 when Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn began operations adjacent to the border on the Mexican side in San Jeronimo. Some 5,700 workers at the 1.6 million-square-foot Foxconn factory complex produce Dell computers for U.S. consumers. Logistics provider RR Donnelly & Sons operates a plant adjacent to the Foxconn complex.
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Santa Teresa’s time has come

New Mexico exports south of the border have surpassed $800 million. Santa Teresa has become a bustling center of industrial activity that’s home to 60 trade-related businesses, nearly 2,500 employees and the largest Union Pacific Railroad transshipment center along the entire Mexican border.  more…

Mexico’s maquila boom extends across the border

As Mexico’s maquilas expand, prospects are good for capturing a lot more business in southern New Mexico. That’s because the New Mexico and Chihuahua state governments are working together to build needed infrastructure to turn the Santa Teresa-San Jerónimo crossing into a major binational land port.  more…

Boom on the border: NM, El Paso battle for business

“This is truly a region with a high potential,” said Garrey Carruthers, former New Mexico governor and president of New Mexico State University. “It just has a couple of complications: two countries, three states, some of us speak two languages, some of us don’t. The restraints and constraints that are created by the public sector oftentimes inhibit regional development.  more…

Santa Teresa is catching fire

Editor’s note: For the first time in decades, Mexico’s maquila industry is smashing the competition in China and other Asian nations as investors relocate their overseas factories closer to U.S. markets. And that is creating huge opportunities for business development along the New Mexico-Mexico border. Today, in part two of a four-part series, the Journal looks at the mushrooming development at Santa Teresa. Go to today’s Business Outlook for part three about Mexico’s maquila explosion, which is fueling the growth in New Mexico.  more…

Infrastructure crisis building along U.S.-Mexico border

SANTA TERESA – The Santa Teresa industrial zone in southern New Mexico may be the victim of its own success as infrastructure there reaches a choke point.  more…