US EditionMexican mega-port confronts Trump's tariff storm
- The Lazaro Cardenas port in Michoacan handles thousands of vehicles, millions of goods, and auto parts across a vast area comparable to thousands of football fields.
- Mexican authorities face growing pressure from US President Trump to tackle drug trafficking, as illegal substances and precursors hide among imports at this strategically important port.
- Despite tariff pressures and security challenges, the port’s container throughput rose 11 percent from January to March 2025, with ongoing military inspections and drug seizures reinforcing enforcement efforts.
- Joel Mendez, the port’s operations manager, called it “a strategic logistics point,” highlighting its railroad links to the US and Canada and its role as Mexico’s top vehicle shipment hub handling 35 percent of national shipments.
- The port plans a 1,100-hectare expansion roughly equal to 900 football fields, signaling continued growth despite a 25 percent tariff on Mexico’s steel and aluminum exports and broader trade tensions.
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Slowdown expected at Port of Oakland this month as US tariffs impact flow of global trade
The Port of Oakland is the 10th largest container port in North America. Over the coming weeks, traffic into the port is expected to slow down because of impact of the new U.S. tariffs.
Customs duties on the largest ports affected by the trade war
In the port of Los Angeles, the waltz of cranes unloading the containers brought from Asia by huge ships has deregulated in recent days: this barometer of the American economy is slowing down because of the commercial war launched by Donald Trump.
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Mexican mega-port confronts Trump's tariff storm
At dawn, container ships from Asia unload at a huge Pacific port in Mexico that so far appears to be weathering the storm unleashed by US President Donald Trump's tariffs.
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ExpansionLázaro Cárdenas, the great Mexican port facing Hurricane Trump
At the start of the day, two ships from Singapore and Hong Kong unload containers in the Mexican port of Lázaro Cárdenas, a colossal structure for the moment immune to the hurricane unleashed by the tariff policy of US President Donald Trump. This terminal, in the west of the country on the Pacific coast and whose size is equivalent to 3,166 football fields, receives and exports thousands of cars and millions of auto spare parts, which Trump sco…
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