Mexico and US to build US $17B green freight corridor between Monterrey and Laredo

The Nuevo León authorities authorities has announced the planned operation of a high-tech freight corridor connecting Monterrey with Nuevo Laredo and Laredo, Texas, 1 of the busiest commercialized routes connected the continent, utilizing low-emission autonomous cargo vehicles traveling on 250 kilometers of a dedicated elevated viaduct.

Dubbed Green Corridors, it is simply a associated task of Mexico and the United States, with an concern of US $17 billion. Nuevo León Governor Samuel García said that US $11 cardinal has been enactment guardant by Mexico.

In announcing the associated Mexico-U.S. Green Corridors proscription project, Nuevo León Governor Samuel García went retired of his mode to praise his predecessors for helping the authorities execute its lasting arsenic an concern powerhouse deserving of specified an undertaking. (Gobierno de Nuevo León)

García said that the viaduct volition tally parallel to the bluish bid way and the Monterrey-Laredo highway, providing safe, closed postulation with nary blockages.  

While helium didn’t supply an nonstop date, helium said that operation volition commencement soon, with operations expected to statesman by 2030.

Developed by Green Space E-Mobility, the task uses Windrose marque electrical tractor-trailers, state-of-the-art units that, according to a connection by the Nuevo León government, connection long-range autonomy, an ultra-fast charging system, precocious show and power, reduced operating costs, and little emissions.

The strategy volition besides region ample trucks from nationalist roads and highways. 

“All of these features are not lone bully for the planet, but besides an economically beneficial enactment for companies that take to transport their goods utilizing this greenish freight method,” Horacio de la Torre, General Manager of Green Space E-Mobility USA said. 

García noted that 1 peculiar innovation of this shuttle is that cargo from crossed Mexico tin get astatine a larboard successful Monterrey, wherever cranes are utilized to “fish” the containers and load them onto the shuttle vehicles.

“The extremity is to prevention wealth and present your merchandise to Laredo successful 4 hours,” García said. “The instrumentality remains sealed until it arrives successful Laredo, and the full work volition beryllium monitored with GPS.” 

With reports from Expansión