The NAFTA Rail Route, from Mexico,
Texas to Kansas City, MO.
Posted on 05/19/2006 6:56:03 AM PDT by Dark Skies
Yep.
Rafael Resendez-Ramirez
The Railway Killer
(an illegal Mexican alien "day laborer")
Good memory you have.
cool! thanks.
LOL, I've got to advertise that statement!!
It was a big deal at the time, he was all over the place and hard to catch.
Yikes, it looks closer in that one but they have the size of the 'road' huge and it seems to run all along the coastline there.
LOL, I've got to advertise that statement!!
: )
(free advertising provide by nicmarlo)
thank you very much!
I see you notice it's branched out.
Thanks nic!!
Written by: Ricardo Castillo Mireles | June 2005
After years of law suits, the NAFTA railroad now runs from Mexico into the U.S.After eight years of legal conflicts, the NAFTA Railroad has finally gotten underway thanks to the consolidation of three railroad companies: Kansas City Southern (KCS), the Texas-Mexico Railway Company (Tex-Mex) and Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana (TFM). Together they have created an integrated intermodal corridor between the Mexican west coast port of Lazaro Cardenas and Kansas City — a corridor that directly connects Asia to the U.S. via Mexico.
A little historical perspective: This opportunity for KCS came about in 1997 when the Mexican government divested itself of TFM, awarding it to Mexico's Transportacion Maritima Mexicana (TMM), a Mexican logistics operator that fell into financial dire straits by over-bidding by some $600 million on the purchase of TFM.
KCS soon became a shareholder of TFM, infusing it with state-of-the-art technology in order to modernize the 110-year-old railroad, which had fallen into disarray under Mexican government management.....
Gee, I'm so surprised.....NOT!
yw! : )
I know. I really haven't done any investigating on my own. Our town isn't talking about it so I don't believe it's anywhere near here.
Sounds like something we really need!
I know.
Well the two are similar, yet different. One being the "Trans-Texas Corridor," and the other being the "NAFTA Rail Corridor." However, the TTC is suppose have it's own rail system too, so they'll no doubt be more maps!
The problem I'm having with all this, is Mexico isn't paying for, or giving up squat for anything. It appears like the good old U.S.A. taxpayers are the prime sugar daddy's! Am I missing something?
No, 500 miles is still 'far' to me, lol.
No doubt, you are correct. See these maps, found at KC Smartport (Kansas City):
There is also an interactive map called "Continental Trade Corridor Map":
Transportation corridors and trade routes that place KC at the heart of North American trade.
Please go to that site and look at the maps, and click on the buttons (one is labeled Show Rail Lines; another is called Show Highways). I can't post any, they're "interactive." One is for the Continental U.S., the other for Kansas City area.
It appears like the good old U.S.A. taxpayers are the prime sugar daddy's! Am I missing something?
Just mega money out of your pocket, and all the other good Americans who are "getting" to pay for it.
LOL, "Kansas City here I come" isn't just lyrics in a song anymore!
Capital’s relentless search for cheap labor constantly alters the flow of surface transportation in North America with widespread consequences. The end-of-century deindustrialization of the United States and importation of cheap commodities from the Far East through the West Coast reversed historical east-west transportation patterns and established Los Angeles and Long Beach as the largest ports in the nation. To minimize transportation costs, which for many products are higher than the cost of production, intermodal transportation of containerized imports was developed. Manufactured goods are packed into mobile shipping containers at factories in the Far East and travel by ship, train, and truck to distribution centers and, ultimately, consumer outlets across the United States. Currently, intermodal transportation of cheap imported commodities is the lifeline of the American economy. In 2004, the Port of Los Angeles processed 7.3 million container units and Long Beach handled 5.8 million. These two ports alone accounted for 68 percent of the West Coast total and are, by far, the largest employers in California.U.S. workers, who have seen so many lucrative manufacturing jobs moved overseas, assumed that import transportation and distribution jobs could not be offshored and were, therefore, relatively secure.Current transportation trends are proving labor’s assumption to be dead wrong. Sparked by organized resistance and wildcat actions by workers against falling wages and deteriorating working conditions at America’s ports and on the nation’s highways, the flow of container traffic is being shifted to a south-north orientation. By leveraging both the U.S. and Mexican governments and taking advantage of the terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), big capital is developing container terminals in Mexico and using that country as a land bridge and labor pool to deliver shipping containers to destinations in the United States at discount prices.
Chart 1 depicts the flow of container traffic through the Mexican land bridge under NAFTA. The data in chart 1, which comes from the Mexican Secretary of Communication and Transport and which is reported in the United States by the American Association of Port Authorities (http://www.aapa-ports.org), reflects the dramatic increase of container units through the Pacific ports of Mexico after the treaty went into effect in 1995—450 percent!
Chart 1 signals the beginning of the assault on labor in the north, which could eventually result in the offshoring of hundreds of thousands of transportation jobs to the south and undermine the working class on both sides of the border significantly. The success of this offshoring scheme rests on the development of vast transportation corridors in the United States and Mexico and the extensive exploitation of Mexican labor to both construct and operate the system. The recently established NAFTA Railway (Transportación Ferroviaria Mexicana, Texas Mexican Railway, and Kansas City Southern Railway, merged under control of the latter), which began operations in the Lazaro Cardenas–Kansas City Transportation Corridor in 2003, offers a preview of capital’s offshoring plan in action.
The Lazaro Cardenas–Kansas City Transportation Corridor...
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