
MTC ACQUIRES MEXICAN CARGO TERMINAL
SAN FRANCISCO – 12/04/07 – Cargo terminal operator MTC Holdings has completed the acquisition of Puerta México, an inland, intermodal terminal facility and services company located about 40 miles west of Mexico City in Toluca’s industrial zone.
The facility offers multi-modal terminal services and on-site customs and bonded warehousing facilities to ocean carriers, railroads, intermodal and other logistics service providers.
Situated at Km 15.5 on the Toluca–Atlacomulco Highway, Puerta Mexico has direct access to rail line “N” of Kansas City Southern de México (KCSM) and will handle cargo moving to and from the industrial zone, the ports of Lázaro Cárdenas and Manzanillo, and the US border crossing at Laredo, Texas.
With an estimated capacity exceeding 150,000 containers per year, the 130-plus acre facility essentially doubles the intermodal capacity available to the greater Mexican central valley region and alleviates a major bottleneck in the central valley supply chain, according to a statement released by MTC Holdings.
San Francisco-headquartered MTC Holdings has been in the terminal and logistics services business for more than 75 years and in July became part of the AIG Global Investment Group through its acquisition by AIG Highstar Capital.
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