From a recent Journal of Commerce column:

Nearly $30 billion. That’s the number the American Association of Port Authorities says U.S. ports will need to invest in landside infrastructure over the next decade just to keep pace with freight growth.

The problem is where to find that $30 billion. Does it come from the private sector? Public equity? State and federal government? Public-private partnerships? … And that takes us to Mexico and the administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto, which will inject $5 billion into the nation’s ports — that’s right — to keep up with growth in demand. But more interesting is that Mexico’s investment is part of a broader approach to manage and expand Mexico’s ports as a system. “We think the ports work in a better way if we use them as part of a logistics chain,” Guillermo Ruiz de Teresa, general coordinator of Mexico’s ports and merchant marine fleet, told the AAPA’s annual spring conference in Washington last month.

Read the rest at the JOC