{"id":73593,"date":"2024-06-23T09:03:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T13:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=73593"},"modified":"2024-06-23T09:03:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T13:03:28","slug":"ford-tests-shipping-cars-from-mexicos-guaymas-port-to-fix-a-logistical-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=73593","title":{"rendered":"Ford tests shipping cars from Mexico’s Guaymas port to fix a ‘logistical tragedy’ – Autoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

MEXICO CITY \u2014 Ford<\/a> has shipped its first batch of cars from the once-neglected Guaymas port near its plant in the northern Mexican state of Sonora in a project that, if fully launched, could cut the U.S. automaker’s logistics costs, according to the state governor, by 30%.<\/p>\n

The initial shipment of pickups and Broncos<\/a>, headed for Chile, is part of a broader revamp of the Guaymas port, an infrastructure project headed by Mexico’s outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.<\/p>\n

Ford has long been trucking<\/a> its autos nearly 2,000 kilometers (1,242 miles) over land from Hermosillo to the port of Lazaro Cardenas, in the state of Michoacan, Sonora Governor Alfonso Durazo said in an interview.<\/p>\n

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Durazo described the long haul as a “logistical tragedy” that could easily be fixed by moving shipping to the Guaymas port.<\/p>\n

Ford executives participated in an event with state government officials on Tuesday. Ricardo Anaya, director of manufacturing at Ford Mexico, said in a statement that “this is the first time we can utilize the port following the investment in (its) modernization and expansion.”<\/p>\n

Durazo said construction was underway on a parking platform at the port to allow the shipments to go out on a larger scale.<\/p>\n

“This also means that cars could come in, they could enter the Sonoran market and even the American market through the Guaymas port,” Durazo said.<\/p>\n

Work to deepen the port’s waters is ongoing to enable Guaymas to receive heavier ships with larger cargo loads, Durazo said.<\/p>\n

Before Lopez Obrador’s term is over in October, “we hope to go one step further and receive or dispatch a container ship to the Asian market,” the governor said.<\/p>\n

Mexican states are looking to benefit from the so-called “nearshoring” trend, as firms opt to move operations typically located in Asia closer to their final destination in North America.<\/p>\n

The port will also benefit from another Lopez Obrador-led project, Durazo said. Part of the president’s so-called “Sonora Plan” has been a 1 gigawatt (GW) solar energy park, which will power the port.<\/p>\n

The second stage of the energy park, costing some $840<\/a> million, should be inaugurated with the president in the coming weeks, according to the governor.<\/p>\n

The federal government’s Sonora Plan also hopes to take advantage of the state’s lithium resources, thought to be Mexico’s largest.<\/p>\n

Mexico nationalized its lithium resources in 2022, and officials have said that private firms could exploit the white metal in partnerships alongside state firm LitioMx.<\/p>\n

However, Mexico needs regulatory clarification on the issue, Durazo said.<\/p>\n

“The law needs to be complemented with regulations to know more exactly how private companies could participate,” he said.<\/p>\n

Last year, miner Ganfeng Lithium said that its local subsidiaries had their concessions canceled, which forced the firm to postpone its target date to kick off mining of the battery<\/a> metal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MEXICO CITY \u2014 Ford has shipped its first batch of cars from the once-neglected Guaymas port near its plant in the northern Mexican state of Sonora in a project that, if fully launched, could cut the U.S. automaker’s logistics costs, according to the state governor, by 30%. The initial shipment of pickups and Broncos, headed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}