Ports America welcomes Pacer International to Puerta México

In May, 2009 Pacer initiated six-day-per-week direct rail service to and from the terminal in Toluca to handle shipments, including automotive and third-party domestic traffic (FAK) northbound and southbound. This new service parallels Pacer’s existing PacerMex ramp points throughout its US and Eastern Canada network and provides through non-stop, in-bond service.

According to the company the Puerta Mexico terminal offers multi-modal terminal services and on-site customs and bonded warehousing facilities to ocean carriers, railroads, intermodal and other logistics service providers with its on-dock direct access to rail line “N” of Kansas City Southern de México (KCSM).

With an estimated capacity exceeding 150,000 containers and 2m tons of cargo per year on more than 130 acres, the terminal effectively doubles the intermodal capacity previously available to the greater Mexican central valley region prior to its opening in 2008 and also alleviates a major bottleneck in the central valley supply chain.