GPI In-Bond Facility speeds the Bajio region

The logistics scheme implemented by GTO Logistics Center (GLC,) help maximizing and to increase the exports of a company, not only the ones located in Guanajuato, but in the entire Bajio area of the country, reducing 15 % in costs and lasting only 3 days in products dispatch.

Thus was announced by Enrique Valle, director of this In-Bond Facility, who noted that the scopes and benefits have to do with the quickness in merchandise dispatch, as well as operation costs in ports and airports.

“We have seven months operating in Guanajuato and we have achieved making our customers understand how this kind of infrastructure can be maximized and potentiate their foreign trade activities,” he said.

He explained that the main objective of the GLC is to make Guanajuato and the Bajio region, the Mexico’s Logistics HUB, since the State has important particularities for making that a reality, such as: having the most important Dry Port in Latin America and that GTO Logistics Center is the In-Bond Facility inside Guanajuato Customs that offers different services for foreign trade merchandise with a permission for 20 years granted by the General Customs Administration from the Customs Administration Service.

“The competitive advantages we provide facilitate companies dispatching through their own customs, being in the center of the country provides them the possibility for companies to be closer of other points in time and distances from the main entrances or exits where the merchandise arrives, logistically they have more advantages in the logistic cost,” he determined.

Within the industrial corridor that includes some municipalities nearby Queretaro, to the municipality of Leon, Guanajuato, there already are 28 industrial parks, therefore, he detailed that the entire community is avid of able to improve their supply chains, seeking new ways of dispatching their merchandises in time and form.

The In-Bond Facility offers services such as previous, storage, custody, added values, labeling, visual inspections, special packaging, quality inspections, kitting, assembly, repaletizer, high value merchandise and parcel service.

GUANAJUATO IN-BOND FACILITY BENEFITS

Enrique Valle informed that the consolidation and deconsolidation of aerial cargo to the export and import of direct flights to and from abroad, it is one of the main  advantages  of the GLC, in addition of having a consolidated transit service from and to the airports of Guadalajara and Mexico City.

“Small and medium companies from the region will be benefited from the cargo management capability for different dimensions and characteristics,” he said.

In the maritime transfer, said that there is consolidation in Europe in the port of Hamburg, in addition of having terrestrial and railroad transits from Altamira and Veracruz, direct to GTO Logistics Center, guaranteeing the arrival of containers with original seal.

In the terrestrial transfer it was direct USA FTL and Canada to GLC, it has a Cargo Consolidated Center in Laredo, Texas and terrestrial transits in Nuevo Laredo, Ciudad Juarez and Nogales.  With highway 45 is assured a road network connection from the NAFTA corridor.