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Guadalajara, Mexico,- WTC Confianza, the storage company, is planning a US$8 million investment to triple current capacity, which depends on authorization by authorities, in line with National Infrastructure Plan.
According to Carlos Torres Verdin, Institutional Relations and Projects Manager, plans are to build a cold-storage room, a new fiscal yard and a new cargo terminal, which amount to more than 32 thousand square meters (344,443 square feet) of infrastructure.
“Based on the investments being negotiated by WTC, plans are to increase customs infrastructure by 150% and negotiating to have a third fiscal yard operator to grow and reach 350 thousand tons; this, considering expansions being made by FedEx in their facilities only (with no new spaces for customs)” he said.

Guadalajara- Both, Plant 6 of Sanmina SCI an electronics company, which will be inaugurated by President Calderon in 2009 and the second Jabil factory have been finished.
Luis Aguirre Lang, Chairman of Maquiladoras and Manufacturing Companies Association, Asociación de Industrias Maquiladoras y Manufactureras de Occidente (AIMMO) and CEO for Sanmina Global Services, informed that the plant concentrates labor for configured products to supply telecommunications industry.
“Plant 6 has been finished this year and we are waiting for the confirmation of the inauguration date. We had been suggested a date next week; however, the President’s Office decided to reschedule it and they will let us know the date in January”.
As far as Jabil’s second plant is concerned, it represents a 100% growth for this manufacturing company. In 2007 this sector made sales abroad for US$10 billion.
Unlike other crises, this time electronics industry is better prepared, because there is growth in electronics design sector and there is opening to other sectors, such as healthcare or aerospace, according to Jacobo Gonzalez, Director of Electronics Production Chain (Cadena Productiva de la Electrónica [Cadelec]).

Mexico City,- Energia Costa Azul will inaugurate today a terminal to receive, store and regassify natural liquefied gas (NLG), located in Ensenada, Baja California, with capacity to process on billion cubic feet per day, equal to one seventh of Pemex production of this hydrocarbon.
In the project, which has the largest breakwater of its kinds in the world, and two storage tanks,160 thousand cubic meters each, around US$1.2 billion were invested, the Company informed.
This plant is the second of its kind in Mexico and has a permit to expand its premises to reach 2 thousand 500 cubic feet for storage.
“Energia Costa Azul is the largest investment project in the 10 years of our Company’s history and is part of the natural gas infrastructure development plan that North America needs so much”, assured Donald E. Felsinger, Sempra Energy’s President, in a previous press release.

Mexico ,- Federal Express(FedEx), the international courier and logistics company, will make .new investments in Mexico, due to the juridical certainty it offers, assured Juan Cento, the Company’s President for Latin America and the Caribbean.
“In addition to being strategic for us – as a matter of fact the most important in Latin America – we are confident that in Mexico there will be a significant growth in the domestic market”, he said.
Therefore, the Company decided to build two operation centers, that will employ 180 people to start a new service; within a decade the number of employees could reach one thousand 500.
One of the centers will be located in San Luis Potosi and the other one in Toluca, where FedEx already has a hub to move international cargo.
According to FedEx, market value for the sector in Mexico is US$820 million and in a decade it will amount to US$1.5 billion.