Reply #55: "Very little freight" eh? 11,000 trucks a day is very little, isn't it? I understand you now.

[A HERETIC I AM]

You're ignorant of the facts.

WHAT "cross border freight transport procedures with Mexico" need to "upgraded"? There isn't any significant "cross border freight transport" from Mexico to begin with!

Flows in Mexico toward US border crossings


Flows from Brownsville, TX


Flows from Laredo, TX


Flows from El Paso, TX


Flows from Arizona


Flows from California

According to the Journal of Commerce, approximately 11,000 trucks cross the border each day from Mexico into the United States. Eighty percent of cross-border cargo moves by trucks. While there are 28 border crossing points, only seven are considered "major." Texas has 63% of border mileage, 57% of the entry points, and handles 66% of transborder traffic. California handles 24% of the traffic, and Arizona, 10%. New Mexico' s cross-border traffic is negligible.

http://www.natlaw.com/pubs/spmxcu7.htm

TRUCK TRANSPORTATION THROUGH BORDER PORTS OF ENTRY:
ANALYSIS OF COORDINATION SYSTEMS by The Texas A&M University System
http://www.borderplanning.fhwa.dot.gov/TTIstudy/FOA_english.htm#fig4
The above article details the procedures currently in place under which truck freight moving from Mexico into the US must undergo. The logistics involved are much more complex than those at Canadian Ports of Entry.

Anyone that has any experience delivering freight bound for Mexico or receiving freight inbound from Mexico is aware of the logistics nightmare involved. Since according to you, "There isn't any significant "cross border freight transport" from Mexico", the thousands and thousands of people who deal with the enormous amount of truck and rail traffic that crosses daily must all be hallucinating.

Article on border planning;
http://www.borderplanning.fhwa.dot.gov/current_article1.asp

Speech given by Jeffrey Shane, Undersecretary for Policy, USDOT;

http://ostpxweb.dot.gov/S-3/Data/Border%20Finance%20Conf-San%20Antonio%20(8-16-05).pdf



I fucking hate having to do research for people too lazy to do it themselves, but there you go.

As far as what investments i have that will profit from all this, only ones that will annoy you personally will be allowed in my portfolio.