A Comparison of Logistics Routes in America: The Corridors Cases

Logistic routes within continents serve as critical arteries that reduce transportation costs, promote accessibility to more areas, and enable the timely delivery of goods and services. One of the mega projects that the current administration of the Mexican government is developing "The Tehuantepec Isthmus Interoceanic Corridor." This project is an integrated logistics platform linking the Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific Ocean, and the country's southern border. The Interoceanic Corridor aims to compete internationally as a site that will change how commerce routes are currently portrayed. This mega project will target approximately 10% of the current Panama Canal transit, which can also be understood as receiving 1.4 million cargo containers annually. The plan to achieve this goal relies on an aggressive legal strategy that will incentivize companies to use the Interoceanic Corridor. Also, the program is based on the geographical narrowness of the Tehuantepec region and the political factors, such as Mexico's Free Trade Agreements with other countries. An analysis of the different commerce routes in America was made regarding laws, considering the three American corridors that cross the American continent (The Panama Canal, the Tehuantepec Isthmus in Mexico, and the Bioceanic corridor in South America). Logistics routes within continents have enormous potential because they enhance connectivity trade and increase resilience in supply chains in case of disruptive events. Finally, these types of infrastructure will potentialize the economic development of the Mexican region by Nearshoring.