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…

San Jerónimo advertises in Fortune magazine

“The Americas’ Smartest City,” declares the full-page ad in a special advertising section in the June 15 issue.  mas…

Impulsarán corredor comercial Santa Teresa–San Jerónimo

El Departamento de Transporte de Nuevo México y la Administración de Carreteras Federales de Estados Unidos, dieron a conocer el programa de trabajo del Plan de Transporte Fronterizo entre Chihuahua y Nuevo México, el cual pretende transformar la región en un importante corredor comercial entre ambos países.  mas…

Santa Teresa en línea para un nuevo cruce fronterizo

LAS CRUCES – Avanza el plan para construir un libramiento ferroviario y un cruce fronterizo ferroviario entre Santa Teresa y San Jerónimo . La Autoridad Fronteriza de Nuevo México ha publicado una licitación que incluye el diseño, la información de impacto ambiental y la integración de las solicitudes de autorización.  mas…

Avanza plan para la construcción de libramiento fronterizo de vías

El plan para construir un libramiento ferroviario fronterizo y un cruce ferroviario entre Santa Teresa y San Jerónimo entró en una nueva etapa en Nuevo México, donde el pasado domingo se publicó la licitación para realizar el estudio de factibilidad que permita conseguir el permiso presidencial para desarrollar el proyecto binacional.  mas…

Union Pacific CEO: Santa Teresa is future of company

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Inauguran gobernadores de Chihuahua y Nuevo México Rampa Intermodal Santa Teresa

El Paso– Como una pequeña ciudad de metal, en medio del plano desierto de Santa Teresa, Nuevo México, a 20 millas al oeste del área metropolitana Ciudad Juárez-El Paso, la empresa Union Pacific pondrá oficialmente en operación este miércoles su proyecto más ambicioso: un gigantesco centro ferroviario con el cual pretende dar batalla al fortísimo mercado manufacturero asiático.  mas…

Comenzará a rodar el gigantesco centro ferrocarrilero en Santa Teresa

El Paso– Como una pequeña ciudad de metal, en medio del plano desierto de Santa Teresa, Nuevo México, a 20 millas al oeste del área metropolitana Ciudad Juárez-El Paso, la empresa Union Pacific pondrá oficialmente en operación este miércoles su proyecto más ambicioso: un gigantesco centro ferroviario con el cual pretende dar batalla al fortísimo mercado manufacturero asiático.  mas……

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. Foxconn, which has two other plants in Juarez, one of which builds Hewlett-Packard computers, will open a third factory in San Jeronimo, boosting the complex’s work force to 9,700 and increasing truck traffic serving production lines from 200 daily to 300, Francisco Uranga, vice president and chief operations for Latin America, told the Albuquerque Journal News.  more…

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…