Supercargo ships, carrying goods made by cheap labor in the Far East and China, will unload in the Mexican port at Lazaro Cardenas, eliminating the need to use costly union longshoremen workers in Los Angeles or Long Beach. Rather than transporting the containers by trucks from the West Coast, using Teamster drivers, or on rail, with the assistance of railroad labor in the United Transportation Union, the containers will be loaded onto Mexican non-union railroads at Lazaro Cardenas. At Monterrey, Mexico, the containers will then be loaded onto Mexican non-union semi-trailer trucks that will cross the border at Laredo, Texas, to begin their journey north along the Trans-Texas Corridor, the first leg of the planned continental NAFTA Super Corridor.
Corsi is appearing more and more to be a good fit with World Nut Daily, drama queens who take a kernal of truth, mix in lots of tinfoil, and extrapolate something innocuous into a dastardly secret conspiracy.
Some actual facts: Virginia has had an inland port for years at Front Royal, VA, which is the concept Kansas City is trying to implement. So are Dallas, San Antonio, and other municipalities. Basically a paperwork port (instead of an actual dock on the water) that allows goods to be shipped in and warehoused without paying import taxes until the goods are shipped off from the inland port to its final destination. A way for inland cities to try and capture some of the warehousing and repackaging opportunities that were traditionally located in coastal ports, Especially useful when high dollar real estate on the west coast could be put to higher and better uses than giant light industrial warehousing. Also a concept that speeds up the importation process.
KCS is an American railroad that bought a Mexican railroad and is now in the process of improving its US track so as to run Mexican import trains into the Midwest, Southeast, and Northeast. All of its US lines are unionized, and they make far more money carrying the traffic on their rails than letting other trucking companies move it. So any transfers in Monterrey are either temporary because of current lack of US rail capacity or time-sensitive where rail is too slow.
As noted, west coast ports are reaching capacity and congested. Mexico (and the expanding Prince Rupert port in Canada) is the next natural place for adding port capacity, because they have ports that are underutilized and have room to expand. Not to mention they don't have enviro groups successfully tying up needed infrastructure projects for years with all kinds of lawsuits. And yes, they are non-union, so the $100,000+ per year featherbedding longshoremen can't hold the US hostage like they tried to do a few years ago. Imports from Asia will continue to increase, and they have to come into the US somewhere.
Are you simply incapable of posting without producing an as hominem rant?