The authorities of the Port of Manzanillo have requested the Federal government expand the customs of the site to increase its capacity up to 40 percent, as indicated by the general director of the container port terminal on the premises (Contecon), José Antonio Contreras, who sent a letter to the President, to report the situation.
“Today (last Monday) we are sending a letter to the Republic President to allocate a little financial and technological resources, customs equipment, specifically for Manzanillosince it is the most important in the entire country in terms of income for the State”
Likewise, he pointed out that it is clear that it is necessary for the Mexican trade and port business with the objective that the costs of the importers do not skyrocket, for which they must be increased at least 30, 40 percent of the current capacity. During the month of December it was the worst month in the last four years in transport reliability, due to the fact that three out of 10 ships arrive on time.
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This situation that generated the containers remained between 15 and 16 on average waiting on ports to be mobilized, when normally before the Covid-19 pandemicIt was between 6 and 7 days.
Anpec points to an increase in the price of basic basket products by up to 75%
The economic revival after the Covid-19 pandemichas wreaked havoc all over the world, however, in the country the inflation level in which the country finds itself, because after a slow but sure recovery, the variants of the disease returned to shake stabilitysince the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022 have been hit.
And it is that according to the monthly monitoring presented by the National Alliance of Small Businesses (ANPEC)has indicated that the rise in prices is maintained and that, from January 15 to February 15, significant prices were registered.
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Such is the case of avocado, being the product that registers the greatest increase in price with an increase of 75.56%followed by tomato with 63-33 percent, the onion with 48.28%, the potato with 44% and the lemon that has registered high prices since the beginning of 2022 and that maintains a rise of 41.67 percent.
In addition, he indicated that the foregoing is also exacerbated by the uncertainty generated by the fear of emergence of new and dangerous coronavirus variants; all this, plus drought, insecurity and food dependency underpins inflation.
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