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Disrupted supply chains are reconnected after deadly quake in Mexico City
THE air freight and trucking sectors have been working hard to resume normal operations in the wake of the devastating 7.1-magnitude earthquake in Mexico City that claimed 350 lives.
"People were scared, running in the street," recalls DSV Air & Sea's vice president for Latin America, Torge Koehnke. Fortunately, all of DSV Air & Sea's employees based at its head office in Mexico City survived the quake, reported New York's Air Cargo World.
While emergency workers spent days in Mexico City searching under rubble from collapsed buildings to rescue people trapped during the earthquake, truck and air logistics resumed operations almost immediately, which CEO of road feeder trucking service Mexpress Transportation, Mike Gamel, attributes to Mexico's careful preparation and implementation of its emergency plan.
On the day of the earthquake, while Mexico City International Airport sustained some damage, "they let us continue with trucking into the airport as normal service," even while flights were cancelled or diverted to other airports including Toluca and Cancun, Mr Gamel said.
Tarmac two at the airport was damaged, but had been repaired within five hours and recommenced operations on the same day, he added.
The larger effects felt in Mexico were actually fallout from the hurricanes that hit the United States, according to Mr Koehnke, who point out that freight arriving in Mexico from the US is suffering from bottlenecks as trucks are diverted into disaster zones, "which drives up the freight rate into Mexico," he added.
"People were scared, running in the street," recalls DSV Air & Sea's vice president for Latin America, Torge Koehnke. Fortunately, all of DSV Air & Sea's employees based at its head office in Mexico City survived the quake, reported New York's Air Cargo World.
While emergency workers spent days in Mexico City searching under rubble from collapsed buildings to rescue people trapped during the earthquake, truck and air logistics resumed operations almost immediately, which CEO of road feeder trucking service Mexpress Transportation, Mike Gamel, attributes to Mexico's careful preparation and implementation of its emergency plan.
On the day of the earthquake, while Mexico City International Airport sustained some damage, "they let us continue with trucking into the airport as normal service," even while flights were cancelled or diverted to other airports including Toluca and Cancun, Mr Gamel said.
Tarmac two at the airport was damaged, but had been repaired within five hours and recommenced operations on the same day, he added.
The larger effects felt in Mexico were actually fallout from the hurricanes that hit the United States, according to Mr Koehnke, who point out that freight arriving in Mexico from the US is suffering from bottlenecks as trucks are diverted into disaster zones, "which drives up the freight rate into Mexico," he added.
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