Group 365logistics specialist, has announced that it will build a parcel terminal by 2025 in Dallas, Texas, with the aim of support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)and derived from the growth of e-commerce They will seek to offer a specialist service; Both projects will require approximately 18 million dollars.
“We are trying to increase the part of the railway route, give it more use, and one of the projects we are bringing is the establishment of a parcel terminal, we can call it LTL, loose cargo, to establish a fiscal area sent directly to our facility in San Luis Potosi, we see this service by rail,” reported Eduardo Vidales, the company’s commercial director.
In an interview with T21, he mentioned that the small and medium-sized industry “is hit hard in the country at the moment, it costs them a lot of money” to send half a container or four pallets of their products and send them to the United States. States.
For example, he commented on the case of a stationery store that buys one or up to four rolls of paper, but they have to wait until someone else consolidates them into a full container so they can ship them, although he put also indicated that it could. be an alternative for large companies.
“Our idea is to consolidate the pallet and sell the cost, the freight from Dallas to San Luis and vice versa at a much more attractive cost so that it can be achieved by the user and the client. There are large and small companies that do not have the ability to reach the country with lower volume and have to consolidate and the cost of consolidation takes time and is much more expensive in the long run, so we are planning that project to do,” he said.
Likewise, he announced that in the part of the e-commerce, They will seek to provide a solution for packages of up to 30 kilograms to be handled in the strategic control area and national distribution from San Luis Potosi.
Eduardo Vidales specified that they will make investments of more than 15 million dollars for the Dallas project, and to address the growth of electronic commerce in Mexico it would be between two and three million dollars. He specified that these two projects will be completed in the middle and end of next year.
“The e-commerce project is essential in Mexico, but the first one will be a gateway for the future of consolidated cargo and for the small and medium-sized industries of Mexico and America so that they can be supplied in less time between the two countries,” he added. said.
Vidales stated, in the case of its consolidated facility in San Luis Potosí, and derived from the relocation (nearshoring) They started with 24 hour services to process and distribute the cargo throughout the country, In addition, companies will be able to export their finished product from here to later deliver merchandise from Asia, Canada or the United States, and even send it to South America.
Group 365 serves four rail terminals, in Nuevo Laredo, Monterrey, San Luis Potosí, Toluca and Lázaro Cárdenas, it also has American customs agencies. In the case of railways, they handle household appliances, the automotive and aerospace industry, plastic, resins, tires, steel, among others.
“What we do is simplify the process for rail units, what we try to do is that before the trains come to the border, everything related to Mexican and American customs requirements is met so that they can enter the country without any claim. or delay. Our job is to make sure the merchandise meets all the requirements,” he explained.
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