Issue #35: Monthly Digest - July
Read on for some Mexico resources and job opportunities with Cargado!
Well, it’s the end of the month again and it’s time for another monthly digest edition. We’re in the middle of summer, but produce season has already cooled off shipping out of Mexico. We’ve been chugging along at Cargado, adding a ton of customers and new features to our product.
Four-month mark + we’re hiring!
We’re at the four-month mark of Cargado being live and recently passed forty customers with no signs of slowing down. That means that we’re adding a Customer Success Manager to support the growth. And, given that we have a formula for growth, we’re going to hire two Account Executives as well. If you’re based in Chicago or know someone who is that would be interested in either role, please apply!
We’re also looking for Border Partnership Managers to engage with everyone based in their respective border cities, so if you’re based in Brownsville, Calexico, El Paso, McAllen, Nogales, or Yuma, you should apply as well!
We’ve got quite a few roles open and encourage everyone to apply online (as much as I appreciate the direct outreach on LinkedIn, it’s become overwhelming and I can’t respond to every DM), including these roles:
Business Operations Associate (Chicago, NYC, or Monterrey, MX)
Senior Software Engineer
Software Engineer
Market insights
We spend a lot of time talking to brokers and carriers actively moving cross-border freight and continue to learn more trends in the market.
Dry van volume out of Mexico is starting to pick up. Carriers are seeing more freight than before but they’re not yet seeing an increase in rates.
We’re in the midst of building/construction season and that reflects in volume coming out of Mexico as materials and related industrial providers are expected to ship more the rest of this quarter before things slow down toward the end of the year.
Produce is still slow coming out of Mexico. Reefer carriers are actively seeking out northbound opportunities and will even compete on dry spot freight when they can’t find anything requiring temperature control.
With produce being slow, meat exports from the United States still seem to be in demand as carriers are being overloaded with requests to move beef, pork, and chicken from the US to Mexico.
Building in Mexico
I get a lot of requests to help people understand how they can best expand their service offering into Mexico. For US-based carriers who are willing to send their trailers into Mexico, in order to help support growing demand, I would happily introduce them to trustworthy Mexico-based partner carriers with whom they can establish trailer interchange agreements.
For the brokers looking to expand into Mexico, I’ve written a few posts about the topic and will re-share them here:
Several brokers have seen success opening up their Mexico offering by leveraging Cargado so I wouldn’t be doing this newsletter justice if I didn’t make the pitch that, if you either have customers asking for Mexico support or you’re actively moving cross-border freight, it’s time you signed up to leverage our platform. Some of the largest brokers and 3PLs in the entire industry are benefiting from it and you will too.