Guadalajara, Jalisco. The cargo terminal Guadalajara International Airport it will become an alternative for South American countries to export their products to the Asian continent.
The foregoing, after the Chilean government requested the Chinese customs to incorporate the port of Manzanillo and the Guadalajara air terminal, as authorized and qualified ports for the clearance of merchandise from that country and destined for the Asian market, reported Federico Lepe Montoya. , responsible for Strategic Planning of the Guadalajara World Trade Center (GWTC), the company that operates the cargo terminal at the international airport of this city.
“This is part of a project that we have called the River Trade between Latin America and Asia, and China has been one of the main targets. We started this project in 2013”, said the also president of the International Logistics Commission of the Council of Industrial Chambers of Jalisco (CCIJ).
Lepe Montoya explained that the project had not prospered in the last 10 years due to the bilateral foreign trade agreements that Chile and Peru had with China, which only considered the ports of Long Beach and the airport of Los Angeles, California, as the only ones qualified to receive exports from South America.
charging hub
According to statistics from Pacific Airport Group (GAP), in 2019 the Guadalajara terminal moved 148,326 tons of cargo.
In 2020, despite the Covid-19 pandemic, air cargo increased to 153,034 tons, in 2021 it reached 184,883 tons and at the end of 2022, 173,000 tons are expected to be mobilized.
This positions the Guadalajara airport cargo terminal as the most important cargo hub in the country, highlighted Federico Lepe.
If the maritime-air logistics project is consolidated, we can go above 220,000 tons”, explained the leader of the commission.
Currently, 50% of the cargo is destined for the Asian continent, 25% goes to Europe, 22% to North America and 5% to South America.
“We are in an ideal place; We respond to the needs of the Center-West of Mexico because 36% of agricultural production is found here. From an import point of view, the high-tech ecosystem that we have still requires a high level of supply from Asia,” she pointed out.
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