{"id":2717,"date":"2017-10-06T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T09:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport-congress\/2017\/10\/06\/ssa-investment-boosts-traffic-in-mexico\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:40:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:40:58","slug":"ssa-investment-boosts-traffic-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/south-america\/ssa-investment-boosts-traffic-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"SSA investment boosts traffic in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to managing director Manuel Fern\u00e1ndez, the investment is being used to create new infrastructure and expand operating areas.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, in Veracruz, the company handled 500,000 finished vehicles, as well as general cargo and steel rolls, being a major component in the port\u2019s expansion of business. Currently, it is extending its automotive terminal to boost efficiency and productivity.<\/p>\n<p>At Tuxpan Port Terminal, which commenced operations six months ago, vehicles, export citrus fruit and reefer boxes constitute the main traffic, which feeds the central zone and also the Baj\u00edo region.<\/p>\n<p>In L\u00e1zaro C\u00e1rdenas, SSA M\u00e9xico is building a new finished vehicles terminal, which should start operations towards the end of the year or early 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The company is also expanding cargo operations in Manzanillo and its cruise business in Cozumel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SSA Mexico has confirmed that it has ongoing investment of $562m in its container, cruise, general cargo and automotive terminals in Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2719,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions\/2719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2717"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}