The nearshoring story and the Mexican freight data have stopped agreeing with each other. Mexican ports handled 9,529,886 TEU in 2025, up just 1.6%, and Manzanillo, which carries about 41% of the country's containers, actually shrank 0.8%. Truck crossings into the United States fell 0.4% to 7,589,315, of which Laredo alone took 2,945,388, nearly four in ten. Foreign direct investment did reach a record 40,871 million dollars, but 67.7% of that was existing companies reinvesting earnings rather than new plants. Two things did change materially. Mexican customs and ports moved under military administration, with the navy coordinating the 17 maritime customs and the army 21 border crossings, and a customs law reform in November 2025 handed exclusive authority over imports and exports to the national customs agency. And on 1 July 2026 the United States declined to renew the USMCA in its current form, leaving the agreement in force pending negotiation. This 2026 guide profiles eight providers with the strongest footprint in Mexico, listed in no particular order, drawn from exchange filings, port authority data and company reporting.
How we chose this list
This is an editorial guide, compiled from public sources such as annual reports, company accounts, regulatory filings and trade media, rather than from paid placements or our own directory data. We weighed four things:
- Scale in Mexico: revenue, sites, fleet and employees based in the country.
- Breadth of services: freight forwarding, contract logistics, haulage, parcels and terminal operations.
- Track record: years operating in Mexico and publicly verifiable results.
- Network: domestic coverage plus international connections.
Figures are the most recent publicly reported at the time of writing. The companies appear in no particular order. A provider further down the page may well be the better fit for your specific lane or freight type.
The 8 companies at a glance
| Company | Type | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Grupo Traxion | Listed trucking and contract logistics group | The only institutional consolidator in a family-owned, fragmented sector |
| GMexico Transportes | Freight rail group | Ferromex and Ferrosur, the largest rail network in Mexico |
| CPKC | Cross-border railway | The only single-line railway linking Canada, the United States and Mexico |
| Hutchison Ports Mexico | Container terminal operator | Four terminals spanning both Mexican coasts |
| APM Terminals Lazaro Cardenas | Semi-automated container terminal | The deepest port in Mexico, at up to 18 metres |
| SSA Mexico | Container terminal operator | The largest single container terminal operator in Mexico's busiest port |
| Contecon Manzanillo | Container terminal operator | The second largest terminal at Manzanillo, operated by ICTSI |
| Estafeta | Domestic parcel and express carrier | Mexico's first door-to-door courier, and still independent |
Grupo Traxion
Traxion reported revenue of 33,813 million pesos for 2025, up 16.0%, with adjusted EBITDA of 5,351 million at a 15.8% margin, though net income fell 24.3% to 492 million. By the second quarter of 2026 it ran an average fleet of 10,823 power units, 938,992 square metres of third-party warehousing, more than 25,000 employees and over 1,300 clients across 12 brands. It is now effectively the only major listed pure-play trucking and logistics group in Mexico.
It bought Solistica from FEMSA, closing on 1 July 2025 for 4,040 million pesos cash-free and debt-free. Watch the margin effect if you are comparing years: Solistica runs at roughly 7.5% EBITDA margin against the group's 15.8%, which is why fourth-quarter 2025 margin fell 580 basis points even as revenue rose 45.7%. Its own filing is unusually candid about 2025, blaming tariff uncertainty for a 7.9% fall in cargo kilometres and weaker pricing across consumer, automotive, heavy-vehicle and steel freight.
Best for: shippers wanting one counterparty across trucking, warehousing and last mile, with audited numbers to check them against.
GMexico Transportes
GMXT reported service revenues of 64,674 million pesos for 2025, up 6.6%, with operating income of 17,769 million and net income of 9,331 million. Ferromex runs 7,120 kilometres of main track plus 1,010 kilometres of branch lines, reaching roughly 71% of Mexican territory and about 80% of its industrial and commercial area, with 658 locomotives and 23,573 cars. Ferrosur adds 1,706 kilometres across the southeast.
Two things to know. Volume fell 1.4% to 66,931 million net tonne-kilometres while revenue rose, so the growth was price and mix rather than freight, with automotive the bright spot at plus 16.3%. And it is no longer a listed company: it delisted from the Mexican exchange on 15 January 2026 after shareholders approved by 97.4%, making its fourth-quarter 2025 report its last as a listed issuer. Treat any trade coverage quoting its peso millions as dollar billions with suspicion, because that error circulated widely.
Best for: bulk, minerals, grain, chemicals and finished vehicles on the Pacific and northern corridors.
CPKC
About 22% of CPKC's freight revenue touches Mexico, split between United States to Mexico at 12%, Mexico to United States at 5% and smaller Canadian flows. Automotive is the standout: 41% of its automotive traffic originates in Mexico, more than in Canada or the United States. It runs roughly 20,000 route miles and serves more than 30 ports.
The second span of the Laredo international bridge, completed at the end of 2024, more than doubled its capacity at the border, and it is the only network with single-line access over that gateway. Its 2026 investment includes the Celaya bypass in Guanajuato, routing trains around the city to create capacity for traffic out of Lazaro Cardenas. Its own filings list revocation of the Kansas City Southern de Mexico concession by the Mexican government as a standing risk, which is worth knowing before you build a supply chain on it.
Best for: cross-border intermodal and automotive between the Bajio and the US Midwest or Southeast, without an interchange.
Hutchison Ports Mexico
Hutchison operates terminals at Ensenada, Lazaro Cardenas, Manzanillo and Veracruz, the widest coastal spread of any single operator in Mexico. Its Manzanillo terminal handled 356,243 TEU in 2025. The group globally spans 53 ports in 24 countries and moved 90.1 million TEU during the year.
Its parent's own accounts contain the single most useful sentence a Mexican importer will read this year. CK Hutchison attributes a 15% rise in segment EBITDA partly to an uplift in storage income largely contributed by Mexico due to more extensive customs inspection, with group storage income up 17% primarily from Mexico and European ports. That is a terminal operator telling its shareholders it earned more money because Mexican customs inspects more containers and they sit longer. Budget for dwell rather than assuming it.
Best for: shippers needing Pacific and Gulf coverage from one terminal relationship, with storage costs budgeted.
APM Terminals Lazaro Cardenas
Maersk's terminal describes itself as the first semi-automated and most technologically advanced container terminal in Mexico, sitting at the country's deepest port with depths up to 18 metres. During 2026 it consolidated its second-phase expansion, reaching capacity close to 2 million TEU, and has begun phase three, extending the quay to 1,200 metres. It runs on entirely renewable power, avoiding around 6,500 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.
Lazaro Cardenas was also the one Mexican container port that clearly grew in 2025, up 8.7% to 2,616,770 TEU while Manzanillo shrank, and the port claims the largest customs facility in the country with more than 60 clearance positions supporting same-day clearance. Given what is happening to dwell times elsewhere, that is a more relevant selling point than it sounds.
Best for: Asia to Mexico imports on large vessels, particularly where CPKC rail inland is part of the plan.
SSA Mexico
SSA Marine's Mexican arm handled 1,648,347 TEU at Manzanillo in 2025, making it the largest single terminal operator by volume in the country's largest container port.
Manzanillo itself moved 3,893,357 TEU during the year, roughly 41% of all Mexican container traffic, though it fell 0.8%. SSA publishes no Mexican financial figures, so it is judged here on throughput and position rather than on disclosed scale.
Best for: Pacific container volume through Manzanillo, where berth productivity rather than rate is the constraint.
Contecon Manzanillo
Operated by International Container Terminal Services of the Philippines, Contecon handled 1,545,411 TEU at Manzanillo in 2025, close behind SSA and comfortably ahead of every other operator at the port.
Between them SSA and Contecon account for the large majority of Manzanillo's traffic, with Hutchison's TIMSA at 356,243 TEU and OCUPA at 343,357 TEU making up most of the remainder. If your container moves through Manzanillo, it is overwhelmingly likely to be handled by one of these two, which is worth knowing when a carrier quotes you a terminal.
Best for: Pacific container volume through Manzanillo as an alternative berth to SSA.
Estafeta
Founded on 8 August 1979, Estafeta was the first door-to-door courier in Mexico and remains a national parcel and express network covering business and consumer delivery.
Correct one thing before planning around it. UPS agreed to acquire Estafeta in July 2024 and Mexico's competition authority cleared the deal in May 2025, but UPS terminated the acquisition on 17 September 2025 because the closing conditions could not all be satisfied. Estafeta is independent and Mexican-controlled. Any guide still describing it as being acquired by UPS is at least a year out of date.
Best for: domestic business parcel and express where a national Mexican network beats an integrator's footprint.
Names you might expect that are not on this list
A few companies appear in almost every guide to this market but should not, because their situation has changed:
- Solistica: For years the FEMSA logistics arm and a standard entry on Mexican logistics lists. FEMSA sold it to Grupo Traxion, closing on 1 July 2025 for 4,040 million pesos, covering transport management in Mexico plus contract logistics in Mexico, Colombia and Brazil, though explicitly excluding FEMSA's less-than-truckload operations in Brazil. It is now part of Traxion rather than a provider you appoint separately.
- Grupo TMM: A long-standing name in Mexican transport that still appears on most lists. Its own corporate website is now a parked domain offered for sale, and the business it still operates is small-scale maritime and offshore vessels rather than shipper-facing logistics. We could locate no primary financial filing for it, so it is left out rather than described from aggregator data.
How to choose between them
The right provider depends less on overall size than on fit with your freight and lane:
- Cross-border to the United States: CPKC for single-line rail without an interchange, Traxion for trucking with audited numbers behind it.
- Rail within Mexico: GMXT through Ferromex and Ferrosur, which between them reach around 80% of the industrial economy.
- Pacific containers: SSA Mexico and Contecon at Manzanillo, APM Terminals at Lazaro Cardenas for the deepest berths.
- Both coasts from one operator: Hutchison Ports Mexico, with storage costs budgeted for longer customs dwell.
- Domestic parcels: Estafeta, still independent after the UPS acquisition collapsed in September 2025.
Whoever you shortlist, get more than one quote, because rates for the same lane can vary widely, and confirm licences, insurance coverage and references for your specific freight type. Our guide to the best websites to find a freight forwarder covers how to run that comparison, and the credentials you can check yourself covers verifying them.
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