Mexico Floods Shut Laredo Crossing, Creating Logjam

Mexican trucks with goods bound for the U.S. are backed up as much as two days as flooded highways block access to Nuevo Laredo, the busiest international crossing on the southern border, the president of an exporters’ trade group said.

Trucks are being rerouted to Reynosa, 250 miles south of San Antonio, and the flow of cargo may not return to normal for as long as three days, said Monica Gonzalez, president of the National Council for the Exporting Maquila and Manufacturing Industry. Rain from Hurricane Alex on July 1 and 2 washed out roads and bridges in the states of Nuevo Leon, Coahuila and Tamaulipas.