Uber Freight is poised to transform the shipping industry in Mexico. The company has reached a milestone with $750 million in Freight Under Management (FUM) in Mexico and double-digit growth within the last year. Apart from being one of the largest warehouse providers in Laredo, Texas—the crossing point for 60% of all cargo traveling between the U.S. and Mexico—Uber Freight offers a complete suite of cross-border solutions including brokerage services, managed transportation, capacity solutions, warehouse and distribution, and customs brokerage through its commercial partnership with Uber Freight Mexico Customs powered by TP Laser.
As Uber Freight continues to expand into Mexico, it recently opened a new office in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico—the company’s tenth cross-border location—and continues to grow its executive leadership team to meet the rise in companies seeking cross-border and nearshoring solutions.
“As cross-border trade proliferates and nearshoring reshapes supply chains as we know them, we’re proud to be the trusted partner shippers and carriers rely on to navigate complex challenges and capitalize on this burgeoning area of business,” said Lior Ron, Founder and CEO of Uber Freight. “With our expanded presence in Mexico and the addition of exceptional talent to our team, we aim to facilitate growth and empower our customers to harness the lucrative opportunities that international shipping presents.”
Uber Freight’s goal by early 2025 is to fully integrate its Mexico network into its innovative Transportation Management System (TMS) to provide enhanced customization, visibility, and control for shippers, solidifying Uber Freight as a key strategic partner in cross-border logistics.
Seamlessly shipping across borders
Although Uber Freight is currently expanding its footprint in Mexico, it has been helping customers ship goods between Mexico and the U.S. for more than two decades. This partly explains why Uber Freight has such a presence in Laredo, where dedicated employees assist customers with cross-border logistics.
“We have centralized everything in order to give the customer the visibility, but also the reporting of shipping operations,” says Jesus Ojeda, Head of Mexico for Uber Freight.
A prime example of how Uber Freight’s TMS provides customer visibility and seamless support is Eaton, a company providing power management technologies in 175 countries. Eaton regularly ships products between Mexico and the U.S., and up until 2018, the process of transporting parts and products cross-border was fractured and convoluted. The company’s eight plants operated separately and used different customs protocols, making it difficult to know where products were in the supply chain.
But since Eaton was already using Uber Freight for its U.S. shipping operations, it could draw on its experience to re-imagine its Mexico operations. With Uber Freight’s help, the customs process for all plants was consolidated through the Laredo border crossing, allowing Eaton’s goods to move over the border easily.
Reshaping of cross-border supply chains
Nearshoring to Mexico has continued to rise in popularity, as many companies are looking to bring operations local.
Ojeda says that Mexican markets are especially interested in being closer to their U.S. customers, a possibility with Uber Freight’s massive Laredo, TX, warehouse, which occupies 1.5 million square feet and sees more than 2,000 daily shipments and more than 25,000 monthly custom entries. With this, cross-border shippers can now deliver to a centralized location before carriers take goods to their final destinations directly through Uber Freight.
Along with warehouse and distribution services, Uber Freight also offers specialized cross-border services, such as intermodal brokerage, customs brokerage through its commercial partnership with Uber Freight Mexico Customs powered by TP Laser, and managed transportation, reshaping cross-border logistics and supply chains for companies in Mexico.
With over 1,300 employees dedicated to cross-border operations, Uber Freight can fully assist new and existing customers throughout the cross-border process to keep their supply chains moving seamlessly.
The opening of the Nuevo Laredo office in Mexico, along with their nine other offices—including key locations like Mexico City, Tijuana, and Querétaro—has also been a huge milestone in reshaping Mexico operations.
And with a 77% year-over-year increase in cross-border new business production from its shipper base, supported by a network of multi-mode approved carriers, the Uber Freight network in Mexico, Ojeda says, will become the premier cross-border solution.
“It’s a completely different game,” says Ojeda. “Once we start using the Uber Freight technology in Mexico, the end-to-end visibility that we will offer is going to be huge.”About Uber FreightUber Freight is a market-leading enterprise technology company powering intelligent logistics. With a suite of end-to-end logistics applications, managed services and an expansive carrier network, Uber Freight advances supply chains and moves the world’s goods. Today, the company manages nearly $20 billion of freight and one of the largest networks of carriers. It is backed by best-in-class investors and partnered with 1 in 3 Fortune 500 companies, including Del Monte Foods, Nestle, Anheuser-Busch InBev and more. For more, visit uberfreight.com.
