Monterrey, NL. The logistics clusters They play a crucial role in the supply chain, as collaboration between companies and geographical proximity significantly improve operational efficiency. By sharing resources and services, companies within a logistics cluster manage to reduce costs, while these centers promote innovation and development. This allows them to respond more agilely to market demands, as highlighted in an article by ALIA, Logistics Cluster of Aragon.
These benefits are being taken advantage of in Nuevo Leónwhere the state Economic Development Council approved the creation of the Logistics Cluster last June. “It has already been approved, we are in the process of formalizing it. The charter has already been signed, although there are still some issues to be addressed,” said Diana Vidal, Cluster Director at the state Ministry of Economy.
This effort involves the participation of various key entitiessuch as the state government, the Ministry of Economy, Codefront, and academia, where the Autonomous University of Nuevo León and Tec de Monterrey participate, as well as important companies in the sector.
Diana Vidal explained that the creation of the cluster, which is number 14 in the state, was due to the need for companies to take advantage of synergies and improve their operations, in addition to the push that Governor Samuel García is giving it to become a logistics hub. “What we wanted was for there to be land, sea and air logistics companies.
The president of the Cluster Council is Alfonso de los Ríos, co-founder and CEO of Nowports and two vice presidents: Roberto Pérez Levi, president of Forza Transportation Services Inc., and Eduardo Cantú, general manager of Dicex International Inc.
Companies such as Joffroy Global, OMA, TSD, and Canadian Pacific Kansas City of Mexico (CPKC of Mexico) also participate.
“We want it to be a cluster that covers all areas, in the end the entire issue of infrastructure is related to the United States, in particular with Texas, through the Port of Colombia,” explained the directive, within the framework of the 5th. Tooling Supplier Edition, which was held by the Tooling Cluster on September 25 and 26 in Monterrey.
Bringing logistics together allows trade to flow
For his part, Andrés Franco Zaldívar, general director of the Mexican Council of Foreign Trade of the Northeast (Comce Noreste) commented that “it is important that all actors in the supply chain are accommodating themselves to collaborate; Call them manufacturing companies, customs agents, I would say also different municipal, state and federation authorities, academia, and other organizations such as border bridges and ports. In the end this allows commerce to flow efficiently and safely.”
He explained that in Comce Noreste they have internal labor committees, called Logistics and Customs Committees, where they team up with other teams similar to Comce, with Index, Canacar, Censecar. They are also the heads of the International Trade Office and United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and OMA and partners, manufacturing companies and transporters, meet bimonthly and bring issues that affect everyone to the table, and they are resolved there and then.
“It’s about teaming up and resolving the issues that are affecting us,” for example, he cited the collapse of the roof of the import modules on September 15, which made an interdisciplinary plan to not stop the transit of trucks with imports, and It was decided to send them through Port Colombia, which generated savings of 1,000 million dollars per day,” emphasized Andrés Franco.
