SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — Trucking companies along the San Diego-Tijuana border region will end the year with an expected 40 percent drop in the number of loads delivered to the U.S.
Alfonso Millán Chávez, a member of the Northern Baja California Chamber of Freight Transporters, said in an average year, October and November normally represent a spike in deliveries between Mexico and the United States, but he says this year is different.
“Our activities as transport companies, as we enter this 11th month of the year, we can say it’s been an unfortunate year,” he said.
According to figures from Mexico’s Secretary of the Economy for the month of May last year, $4.4 billion in merchandise and products were delivered from Mexico north of the border; this year it was only $3.5 billion.
Millán Chávez says the rest of 2025 followed a similar pattern.
“This just proves we’ve had a very complicated year.” he said.
He blames the slowdown on tariffs and the uncertainty surrounding their implementation.
“All they are doing is discouraging investment, all it’s done is generate restlessness in commerce along the border,” Millán Chávez said.
Millán Chávez believes the pattern to continue next year.
“We’ve had a drop in volume in truck crossings, let’s hope in 2026 we see a recovery, we’re hoping for a spike in business to reach our budgetary goals next year.”
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