Sparx Logistics, a Hong Kong freight forwarder, has connected the Asia-Pacific corridor with the center of the United States through the port of Lázaro Cárdenas since March 2021, a multimodal corridor similar to the one that Mexico presented in 2002 under the name of "Bandera Project". during his presidency of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum.

Thus, 20 years later and in the midst of the pandemic caused by COVID-19, the disruptions in the logistics chain and the congestion in the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, in California, this route begins to transport merchandise to the main retailers. from the neighbor to the north.

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In 2021 everyone was struggling in China, nobody had space and the rates began to rise to eight or 10 thousand dollars, there were no containers and Spark, being an Asian company from Hong Kong, also had problems. With the opportunity, the company showed the map of where Mexico was, showing their Chinese colleagues where Lázaro Cárdenas was and which shipping companies came to the country, and thus they began the operation, according to Boris Franchomme, the company's managing director of Mexico, recalls.

The company managed to sign ship charter contracts and buy containers in order to have capacity -currently they have 15,000 of the latter- that are used for the movement of cargo from the ports of Ningbo and Shenzhen to Lázaro Cárdenas, and through the Kansas City Southern de México (KCSM) track on a unit train to Chicago, Kansas City and Houston.

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“We wanted it to be a fast service, arriving at Lázaro Cárdenas in a maximum of two or three days. You have to get on the train, but on a unit train, it doesn't stop. We are in 26 or 28 days from China to Chicago. It is a reliable route and this charter is from us and it is a ship that comes and goes. We decided not to touch many ports in China because of the times, it is a single ship, a monthly service and we make sure that there are no delays, it cannot be overbooked, the booking (reservation) is 100% guaranteed”, he says.

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