The Tennessee-based carrier aims to capture the growing trade flows tied to nearshoring and U.S.\u2013Mexico manufacturing.<\/p>\n
At an open-house event on Wednesday, company leaders highlighted the facility\u2019s multimodal capabilities and Averitt\u2019s long-term investment in South Texas.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no other LTL carrier in this market with warehousing on-site that can do what we do for customers in such a short time,\u201d Calvin Rackley, regional vice president of operations, said. \u201cThis expansion represents the opportunities that are in San Antonio. And many of you are harvesting those opportunities. There are many more to come with nearshoring and what\u2019s going on in Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n
The facility, located along Interstate 35 about 160 miles from the Mexican border, now features 80 dock doors \u2014 double its previous capacity \u2014 as well as a drive-through fueling station and on-site maintenance building.<\/p>\n
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Averitt is preparing for a boom in cross-border shipments with the recently completed expansion of its distribution and service center in San Antonio. (Photo: Averitt)<\/p>\n
Ed Habe, Averitt\u2019s vice president of Mexico sales, said San Antonio\u2019s location along the I-35 corridor\u2014 which connects Laredo, the nation\u2019s busiest inland port, with major U.S. distribution hubs\u2014 makes it a natural logistics gateway for cross-border freight.<\/p>\n
\u201cSan Antonio has already seen the effect of nearshoring,\u201d Ed Habe, vice president of Mexico sales for Averitt in San Antonio, told FreightWaves. \u201cSan Antonio is part of the I-35 corridor, the busiest freight corridor in the U.S., which extends all the way to Laredo and then all the way into Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n
Founded in 1971, Averitt Express operates more than 4,500 tractors and 14,750 trailers across 85 locations nationwide, employing over 8,000 associates.<\/p>\n
Blockades paralyze access to Mexico\u2019s Port of Manzanillo<\/p>\n
A series of farmer-led blockades on highways across western Mexico have choked access to the Port of Manzanillo, causing major disruptions to one of the country\u2019s most important trade gateways.<\/p>\n
Corn producers in Jalisco and Colima have blocked key segments of the Guadalajara\u2013Colima highway, the primary trucking route linking Manzanillo to inland industrial hubs, according to Informador<\/a>.<\/p>\n The protests \u2014 demanding higher corn prices \u2014 have left motorists stranded for up to 17 hours and forced transporters to cancel or reroute shipments.<\/p>\n At the port, truck congestion and appointment delays have worsened. Freight forwarders report seven-day processing times for imports, and both terminals are seeing \u201creduced operational fluidity,\u201d according to Kuehne + Nagel<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Rail service has also been disrupted by blockades near La Barca and Tepic, delaying cargo movements inland.<\/p>\n The Port of Manzanillo, which handles roughly 40% of Mexico\u2019s containerized trade, remains operational\u2014but shippers report cascading delays across rail, road, and yard operations as the blockades continue to disrupt traffic.\u00a0<\/p>\n Woojer taps Texas Logistic & Fulfillment for distribution operations<\/p>\n Haptic tech firm Woojer has partnered with Texas Logistic & Fulfillment Services (TLFS) to manage quality control, software updates, storage, and nationwide distribution of its immersive audio gear to Best Buy, Costco and Sam\u2019s Club.<\/p>\n Operating from a former Amazon distribution center in Sugar Land, TLFS will power Woojer\u2019s expansion with real-time tracking, 1\u20132-day dock-to-stock cycles, and integrations with DHL, FedEx, UPS, and USPS, according to a news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n TLFS is a full-service 3PL provider headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas, offering warehousing, fulfillment, QC, and distribution solutions for global brands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Borderlands Mexico is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[20855,21026,21027,82,84,83,11767],"class_list":["post-32424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-averitt","tag-borderlands","tag-port-of-manzanillo","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-trucking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}