Friday, June 1, 2007
State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico and the Dallas Logistics Hub sign Memorandum of Understanding
The new international partnership will focus on improving the security, speed and efficiency of moving goods between these two major logistics centers.
DALLAS INVITE, an entity of the State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, which is developing an inland port and manufacturing facility, and The Allen Group, which is developing the 6,000 acre Dallas Logistics Hub in Southern Dallas County of Texas, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will create an efficient new trade corridor between Mexico and the United States.
The MOU establishes a collaboration of the parties on several issues, including the designation of a customs pre-clearance zone for the development of integrated logistics systems connecting the Interpuerto in Monterrey - Saltillo, Mexico and the Dallas Logistics Hub in Southern Dallas County, Texas. The objective on both sides of the border is to improve the competitiveness of enterprises established at both locations.
“Customs pre-clearance is important for both parties as it will expedite the flow of goods between Nuevo Leon and Texas and provide additional security for enterprises operating within the facilities,” said Ambassador Francisco Javier-Alejo, Nuevo Leon’s Executive Coordinator for INVITE.
Photo not provided by INVITE, the Allen Group
Texas Secretary of State Roger Williams has focused on the promotion of trade and the flow of goods between Mexico and the United States through NEMEX-TX. “This is just the type of partnership we want to see,” said Williams. “It’s good for Texas, and it’s also good for our neighbors to the South in Mexico.”
The parties anticipate that new jobs will be created as a result of the improved competitiveness of U.S. and Mexican enterprises and that these enterprises will be able to compete with manufactured products from other parts of the world.
According to the parties, their collaboration and understanding is motivated by the fact that inefficient logistics systems in the movement of goods between the Mexico and the U.S. is a major impediment to their ability to compete with products imported from other parts of the world. The MOU will facilitate the development of a new and proprietary transportation system to help address these inefficiencies.
INVITE is presently involved in several initiatives to create improved logistics systems between the states of North Eastern Mexico and Texas, designated as NEMEX-TEX, including the development of Monterrey as a Logistics Gateway.
The Allen Group is presently involved in the development of the Dallas Logistics Hub, on a site of approximately 6,000 acres adjoining Interstates 35, 45, and 20 in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex
Source: The Allen Group
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Sanders Kaufman, says:
I'm already loving the effects of this as shops are beginning to carry more and more exotic products.
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Mike Orren, says:
Which shops? What kinds of exotic products?
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Sanders Kaufman, says:
I'm thinking specifically of my corner grocer - Carnival. I call it the "NAFTA store".
As these trade routes are opening up, they're beginning to carry candies, meats and crafts that come up through Mexico.
There were a lot of predictions that the trucks carrying these products would all be full of illegal immigrants and drugs. But those fears turned out to be misplaced.
Now, as the promise of heavier train-freight has come up, Carnival has added another aisle and is already beginning to sell things like BBQ grills and furniture.
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Dylan Cave, says:
My Volkswagen was assembled in Mexico.
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