Manzanillo's Mega Port: Mexico's Bold Move Amidst Trade Wars

Manzanillo's Mega Port: Mexico's Bold Move Amidst Trade Wars

Manzanillo's Mega Port: Mexico's Bold Move Amidst Trade Wars Mexico’s largest seaport, Manzanillo, is undergoing a significant expansion as the nation invests heavily in infrastructure to drive economic growth despite global trade tensions. The government envisions transforming the Pacific Coast facility into the busiest port in Latin America, with an ambitious plan to process 10 million 20-foot containers.This bold initiative is led by Presiden…

Mexico plans to significantly expand the capacity of its Manzanillo container port on the Pacific coast, paving the way for a billion-dollar infrastructure project. In early April, the finance ministry released a draft budget that projected Mexico’s economy to grow between 1.5 and 2.3 percent this year. The central bank, however, estimated in late February that the economy would grow by just 0.6 percent this year, with personal consumption and p…

A massive expansion of Mexico’s largest seaport is underway while Mexican authorities are betting on economic expansion this year and the strength of global trade, despite the grim prospects provoked by the US President Donald Trump’s trade war. The Mexican government aims to transform the Port of Manzanillo, on the coast of the Mexican Pacific, into the most active maritime terminal in Latin America, capable of processing about 10 million TEUs …

Manzanillo is the largest port in Mexico and the third largest port in Latin America, handling almost 4 million TEUs in 2024

All the Mexican ports that carry out maneuvers for the automotive industry with units zero kilometers in traffics of height, have presented negative numbers during the first trimester of this year (1Q25). The statistics of the General Coordination of Ports and Merchant Marine (CGPMM), an office of the Secretariat of Marine, refers that during the first three months of 2025 the movement of 460 thousand 201 automobiles was recorded, adding the imp…