Averitt expands San Antonio terminal to meet nearshoring demand

Borderlands Mexico is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Averitt expands San Antonio terminal to meet nearshoring demand; Blockades paralyze access to Mexico’s Port of Manzanillo; and Woojer taps Texas Logistic & Fulfillment for distribution operations.

Averitt recently completed the expansion of its San Antonio operations with an 85,000-square-foot distribution and fulfillment warehouse and cross-dock terminal.

The Tennessee-based carrier aims to capture the growing trade flows tied to nearshoring and U.S.–Mexico manufacturing.

At an open-house event on Wednesday, company leaders highlighted the facility’s multimodal capabilities and Averitt’s long-term investment in South Texas.

“There is no other LTL carrier in this market with warehousing on-site that can do what we do for customers in such a short time,” Calvin Rackley, regional vice president of operations, said. “This expansion represents the opportunities that are in San Antonio. And many of you are harvesting those opportunities. There are many more to come with nearshoring and what’s going on in Mexico.”

The facility, located along Interstate 35 about 160 miles from the Mexican border, now features 80 dock doors — double its previous capacity — as well as a drive-through fueling station and on-site maintenance building.

Ed Habe, Averitt’s vice president of Mexico sales, said San Antonio’s location along the I-35 corridor— which connects Laredo, the nation’s busiest inland port, with major U.S. distribution hubs— makes it a natural logistics gateway for cross-border freight.

“San Antonio has already seen the effect of nearshoring,” Ed Habe, vice president of Mexico sales for Averitt in San Antonio, told FreightWaves. “San Antonio is part of the I-35 corridor, the busiest freight corridor in the U.S., which extends all the way to Laredo and then all the way into Mexico.”

Founded in 1971, Averitt Express operates more than 4,500 tractors and 14,750 trailers across 85 locations nationwide, employing over 8,000 associates.

A series of farmer-led blockades on highways across western Mexico have choked access to the Port of Manzanillo, causing major disruptions to one of the country’s most important trade gateways.

Corn producers in Jalisco and Colima have blocked key segments of the Guadalajara–Colima highway, the primary trucking route linking Manzanillo to inland industrial hubs, according to Informador.

The protests — demanding higher corn prices — have left motorists stranded for up to 17 hours and forced transporters to cancel or reroute shipments.

At the port, truck congestion and appointment delays have worsened. Freight forwarders report seven-day processing times for imports, and both terminals are seeing “reduced operational fluidity,” according to Kuehne + Nagel.

Rail service has also been disrupted by blockades near La Barca and Tepic, delaying cargo movements inland.

The Port of Manzanillo, which handles roughly 40% of Mexico’s containerized trade, remains operational—but shippers report cascading delays across rail, road, and yard operations as the blockades continue to disrupt traffic.

Haptic tech firm Woojer has partnered with Texas Logistic & Fulfillment Services (TLFS) to manage quality control, software updates, storage, and nationwide distribution of its immersive audio gear to Best Buy, Costco and Sam’s Club.

Operating from a former Amazon distribution center in Sugar Land, TLFS will power Woojer’s expansion with real-time tracking, 1–2-day dock-to-stock cycles, and integrations with DHL, FedEx, UPS, and USPS, according to a news release.

TLFS is a full-service 3PL provider headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas, offering warehousing, fulfillment, QC, and distribution solutions for global brands.

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