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Mexico in Numbers: Felipe Ángeles International Airport

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Opening of Felipe Angeles International Airport in Mexico state
President López Obrador takes a tour of the Felipe Ángeles International Airport on its inauguration on March 21, 2022.

When United States President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau flew into Mexico last month for the North American Leaders’ Summit, their official aircraft didn’t touch down at the Mexico City International Airport but rather at the 10-month old Felipe Ángeles International Airport AIFA), located north of the capital’s downtown.

Built by the army on an Air Force base in the México state municipality of Zumpango, AIFA is one of President López Obrador’s pet infrastructure projects, its construction taking place after AMLO canceled the previous federal government’s more grandiose airport following a legally questionable referendum held before he took office in late 2018.

This edition of “Mexico in Numbers” – see the most recent previous one here — provides a numeric rundown on the new airport in Q & A format, looking at a range of relevant figures ranging from its size to the latest passenger numbers.

How far is AIFA from central Mexico City?

By road, AIFA is 44.7 kilometers from Mexico City’s central square, the Zócalo, according to Google Maps.

How long it will take you to get there from central Mexico City is very much dependent on the time of day you set out as traffic conditions vary considerably.

Expect a journey of about one hour if traffic is flowing well, and two hours or more if roads are gridlocked.

A train link from the Buenavista station in central Mexico City is expected to allow travelers to reach the airport in about 40 minutes, but that project is still under construction.

How big is AIFA?

The total area of the airport is 1,531 hectares, or 15.31 square kilometers, according to information on the federal government’s website.

The size of the Santa Lucía Air Force base on which AIFA was built is 2,331 hectares. The area not occupied by the airport houses air force and army facilities.

How long did it take to build?

AIFA opened on March 21, 2022 – 886 days after AMLO officially inaugurated its construction on October 17, 2019. That’s just over two years and five months, in case you hadn’t already done the math.

Federal Tourism Minister Miguel Torruco told a conference in Spain last month that the airport was built in “record time.”

How much did it cost?

The federal government said in a statement in April 2022 that the total construction cost was 74.53 billion pesos, or just under US $4 billion at the current exchange rate.

However, the newspaper El Universal reported in March last year that just over 104.5 billion pesos had already been spent on the airport, and that an additional 11.45 billion pesos had been allocated to the project for 2022, lifting the total cost to 115.98 billion pesos, or about US $6.2 billion.

How many passenger airlines use the airport?

The main Mexican airlines – Aeroméxico, Volaris and Viva Aerobús – all operate flights to and from AIFA as do Venezuelan carrier Conviasa, the Dominican Republic’s Arajet and Panama’s Copa Airlines.

Mexico’s Magnicharters also uses AIFA, taking the total number of airlines with services to and from the new airport to seven.

How many runways does AIFA have? 

The airport has three runways, but only two are used by commercial airlines. Its main runway is 45 meters wide and 4.5 kilometers long, making it the longest runway in Mexico.

In January, AIFA managed for the first time to make it to the bottom of Mexico’s list of busiest airports for domestic passengers. But when considering total passenger numbers in 2022, AIFA is still a tiny bubble in the middle of the graph.  

How many passengers have used AIFA since it opened last March?

According to the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport’s end-of-year report, AIFA had processed a total of 876,000 passengers by the end of 2022.

AIFA director Isidoro Pastor Román said recently that passenger No. 1 million would pass through the airport on the weekend of Jan. 14 and 15.

“We’re handling an average of 8,000 passengers per day. In the coming days, this weekend, we’ll reach one million passengers transported from March to the current date, and we expect to finish the first year of operations with just over 1.3 million passengers,” he said.

What is the airport’s annual passenger capacity? 

According to the federal government, AIFA can currently handle 20 million passengers per year. The capacity could increase to as many as 80 million if planned extensions go ahead.

By comparison, the “saturated” Mexico City International Airport had record passenger traffic of 50.3 million people in 2019, while 46.2 million travelers passed through its two terminals in 2022.

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Government official says Tesla considering an assembly plant near AIFA

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Nuevo León saw more than 47,500 new jobs, partly thanks to the boom in nearshoring. (Wikimedia Commons)

Electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla is considering opening an assembly plant near the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) north of Mexico City, according to President López Obrador’s communications chief.

Jesús Ramírez told the Reuters news agency on Monday that the company could set up a plant at an industrial park currently being developed about three kilometers from AIFA, located about 50 kilometers north of central Mexico City in México state.

He said the plant would serve as an export hub for Tesla, whose CEO is Elon Musk, the world’s second richest person.

One issue already identified: AICM apparently received little training and support as to how to direct flights operating in the new airspace configuration created when Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) opened north of the capital.
The Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) opened in March of 2022. (Cuartoscuro)

“Tesla is looking at investing in that area to take advantage of AIFA,” Ramírez said, adding that a plant there could operate as a base for Tesla to export via air.

Reuters said the presidential spokesman offered no further details about the company’s plans. Ramírez’s comments to the news agency came after he made similar remarks to the newspaper El Heraldo de México.

“Tesla will invest … [near AIFA] in an assembly plant, to export directly by air,” he told the Mexico City-based paper.

Ramírez told El Heraldo that the company was looking at investing in the T-MexPark, a major industrial park under construction near the new airport, which opened in March 2022.

Another federal official told Reuters that Tesla representatives had visited the site, but didn’t disclose the company’s plans.

Last October, Musk visited Nuevo León, where he met with Governor Samuel García and other state officials, sparking speculation that Tesla would invest in the northern border state. The newspaper Milenio reported in December that Tesla would announce a vehicle plant in Nuevo León in January, but no such announcement was made.

It was unclear whether Tesla was interested in opening plants both near AIFA and in Nuevo León. Reuters said that the company didn’t respond to its request for comment.

With reports from Reuters 

Social media ‘challenge’ blamed for young students’ intoxication

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Children as young as 10 have been treated for symptoms in Guanajuato city, Mexico City and Monterrey in recent weeks.(Shutterstock)

Primary school students in Guanajuato city are the latest children to fall ill after apparently participating in a dangerous social media “challenge” dubbed “the last one to fall asleep wins.”

Authorities in Guanajuato said that at least 15 students at the Profesora María de Jesús López school became sick Monday after consuming clonazepam, a prescription-only tranquilizer.

The incident came just days after health regulator Cofepris issued a warning about a “dangerous” TikTok “challenge” in which “controlled medicines that induce sleep” are consumed by minors who compete to stay awake in spite of the effects of the drugs.


The alert came after eight students at a Mexico City middle school and three at a middle school near Monterrey required medical treatment in January due to the consumption of tranquilizers. A similar case was reported at a middle school near Guadalajara last year.

Four of the 15 students who ingested clonazepam in Guanajuato were taken to hospital for treatment. The others were treated at the school by Red Cross, Civil Protection and fire department personnel. Those affected were aged 10 and 11, authorities said.

The Guanajuato municipal government said in a statement that “it’s presumed that the students ingested the medication as part of a challenge that has gone viral on social media.”

On Facebook, Mayor Alejandro Navarro expressed his concern about the incident.

“I ask parents and teachers to closely watch what your children and students are doing, … [including] their use of social media. … I also ask relevant authorities to do what is required to attend to this case and prevent these kinds of occurrences,” he wrote.

Cofepris said in its warning that the improper consumption of tranquilizers such as clonazepam can cause a range of side effects including drowsiness, dizziness, nausea, headache, blurry vision and breathing difficulties.

“If said tranquilizer is combined with certain medications, it can induce coma,” the regulator added.

Cofepris called on parents, guardians and teachers to speak to children about the “serious risks” of consuming controlled substances. It also urged children to “avoid disseminating and participating in challenges that place their lives at risk.”

“In addition, this regulatory agency urges [citizens] to denounce points of sale where clonazepam is sold without a medical prescription,” Cofepris said.

With reports from Sin Embargo and Infobae 

National statistics agency reports 3% economic growth for 2022

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A woman at work in a vehicle manufacturing plant in Guanajuato.
Manufacturing outperformed other sectors in annual performance.

The Mexican economy grew for a second consecutive year in 2022 after the COVID pandemic and associated restrictions caused GDP to fall sharply in 2020.

The national statistics agency INEGI reported Tuesday that GDP expanded 3% in annual, seasonally-adjusted terms last year, a figure just below the International Monetary Fund’s forecast of 3.1% growth.

The figure is based on preliminary growth data for the fourth quarter of 2022 and is thus subject to change when final data is published on Feb. 24.

The economic expansion in 2022 followed 5% growth in 2021 as GDP rebounded from an 8.5% contraction in 2020.

Gabriela Siller, director of economic analysis at Banco Base, said that the 3% growth recorded last year shows that the economy has fully recovered from the COVID-induced economic crisis.

Alfredo Coutiño, director for Latin America at Moody’s Analytics, said in a note that the Mexican economy “didn’t disappoint in 2022, since it performed better than expected.”

Mexico's central bank building
The central bank raised interest rates to record highs in 2022 to rein in high inflation.

The 3% growth occurred against an economic backdrop of persistently high inflation and record-high interest rates as the Bank of México tightened monetary policy in an attempt to put downward pressure on soaring prices.

Nearshoring – the relocation of companies to Mexico to be close to the United States market – benefited the economy in 2022, but growth could have been even higher if the phenomenon was taken advantage of more fully , according to Siller.

Deputy Finance Minister Gabriel Yorio said Monday that consumption and private investment benefited the economy in recent months, and predicted that higher wages and improved labor conditions will aid growth this year.

INEGI’s preliminary data for the fourth quarter of 2022 showed that GDP expanded 0.4% compared to Q3 and 3.6% compared to the final three-month period of 2021. The former figure indicates a slowdown, as quarter-over-quarter growth was 0.9% in Q3.

Nevertheless, GDP has now increased during five consecutive quarters.

The agriculture sector fueled the Q4 growth with a 2% quarter-over-quarter increase in economic activity and a 6.3% increase in annual terms. However, the manufacturing sector outperformed the agriculture and services sectors during the entire year, recording 3.2% annual growth. The agriculture and services sectors expanded 2.8% and 2.7%, respectively.

avocado processing plant
Agriculture led Q4 growth in 2022, according to INEGI data. (Gob MX)

In view of the latest data, the possibility that stagflation – high inflation, low growth and high unemployment – will afflict the economy has been “practically eliminated,” Janneth Quiroz, deputy director of economic analysis with the Monex financial group, said on Twitter.

A slowdown is predicted in 2023 amid challenging global economic conditions, but Mexico is not expected to go into recession.

The International Monetary Fund on Monday lifted its forecast for 2023 GDP growth in Mexico from 1.2% to 1.7%, while the World Bank is currently predicting a 0.9% expansion “as restrictive monetary conditions, stubbornly high inflation, and softer exports curtail activity.”

The federal government has a more optimistic outlook, predicting 3% growth in 2023.

With reports from El Financiero, El Economista, Bloomberg and Reforma 

PRD names 2 ‘strong’ presidential candidates for Va por México ticket

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PRD leader Jesus Zambrano, left, with Senator Miguel Ángel Mancera, ex mayor of Mexico City
Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) President Jesús Zambrano, left, at a party meeting in México state on Friday. Seated next to him is former Mexico City mayor and current senator Miguel Ángel Mancera, one of two politicians Zambrano said the PRD would put forward as pre-candidates for the 2024 presidential election. (Photos: Crisanta Espinosa Aguilar)

The leader of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) has declared that the leftist party has two “strong” contenders to represent the opposition coalition at the 2024 presidential election.

PRD president Jesús Zambrano told a press conference Sunday that former Mexico City mayor Miguel Ángel Mancera and ex-governor of Michoacán Silvano Aueroles are interested in representing the Va por México alliance, which announced in mid January that it would field a common candidate at next year’s election.

The coalition is made up of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), the once-omnipotent Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the PRD, which President López Obrador represented at the 2006 and 2012 presidential elections.

Despite claims that the PRD has no suitable candidates, “we have two people,” Zambrano said, explaining that both Mancera, mayor of the nation’s capital from 2012–18 and currently the PRD’s leader in the federal Senate, and Aureoles, who completed his six-year governorship in late 2021, were preparing to participate in the process to find a Va por México candidate.

“Silvano Aureoles told me first, and yesterday at the … [PRD meeting in México state] … Senator Miguel Ángel Mancera declared his intention to start mobilizing to seek the candidacy. They’re both strong candidates,” he said.

Zambrano made it clear that the PRD didn’t currently intend to contest the presidential election on its own, despite his anger over an agreement between the PAN and the PRI that will see the first of those two parties run the candidate selection processes for the 2024 presidential and Mexico City mayoral elections.

Former Michoacan governor Silvano Aureoles
Former Michoacan governor Silvano Aueroles also attended the PRD meeting on Friday. Zambrano said both Aueroles and Mancera are viable candidates for the Va por México ticket.

The PAN agreed to give the PRI responsibility for choosing Va por México candidates for gubernatorial elections in México state and Coahuila later this year.

“In no way are we threatening a split,” Zambrano said before reiterating his support for a “democratic” selection process.

“In accordance with its democratic origin, the PRD proposes that the … [process to find a Va por México candidate] occur via a democratic, open and inclusive method,” he said.

“The management of electoral processes must be in the hands of civil society, not the political elite,” he said.

The PRD chief added that his party would be forced to “change its alliance strategy” if its Va por México partners are not willing to listen to and respect its views on how the selection process should be run.

“We hope with all sincerity that this doesn’t lead to a split [in the alliance]. We could go out on our own, … but that’s not our ambition,” Zambrano said.

Former tourism minister Enrique de la Madrid, ex-interior minister and current Senator Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong and Senator Lilly Téllez are among the other contenders to become the opposition’s flag bearer at the 2024 presidential election.

Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum and Foreign Affairs Minister Marcelo Ebrard are the leading hopefuls for the ruling Morena party, which López Obrador led to power in 2018.

With reports from El Universal, Infobae and Aristegui Noticias 

Art Week brings the ‘pulse’ of the art world to Mexico City

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Zona Maco, one of the most important art fairs in Latin America, is opening Feb. 9 in Mexico City.
Zona Maco, one of the most important art fairs in Latin America, is opening Feb. 8 in Mexico City. (Mario Jasso / Cuartoscuro.com)

Mexico City Art Week (Semana del Arte) — which runs from Feb. 8 to 12 and is most well-known for the Zona Maco fair — will bring together artists, buyers, dealers, curators and enthusiasts alike to experience and promote Mexican and foreign art through different shows around the city.  

Art Week is an opportunity to experience pieces that rarely come into the country, and at the same time, a chance for buyers to purchase a piece directly from an emerging artist without intermediaries. Below is a selection of highlighted events, though there are many more scheduled.

Zona Maco

Zona Maco 2022 drew 57,000 visitors.
Zona Maco 2022 drew 57,000 visitors. (Zona Maco)

Recognized as the leading event of its kind in Latin America, the biannual Zona Maco will celebrate its 19th edition at Centro Citibanamex with the participation of over 200 exhibitors.

“This year we have received more applications from galleries compared to last year. For this reason, we think that although we did not grow the fair in square meters, we will have more visitors and return to the numbers of 2020,” said Zona Maco founder Zélika García in an interview with La Lista.

The event drew 57,000 visitors last year according to the event organizers.

For this edition, Zona Maco will present a selection of both Mexican (51%) and foreign (49%) artists from countries that include Austria, Germany, Canada, China, Spain, France, Italy, Romania and Turkey.

For Zona Maco artistic director Juan Canela, one of the things that has consolidated the show through the years is the diversity of pieces on display — from modern art, photography, design and antiques, to cutting-edge contemporary art and NFTs. Canela considers that this variety allows the visitor to take the pulse of the artistic world.

For further information and to purchase tickets, visit the event website.

Salón Acme

Salón Acme describes itself as an art platform created by artists, for artists, seeking to promote young talent and emerging artists from Mexico and abroad. From Feb. 8-12, the event will hold its tenth edition.

Salón Acme includes an “Open Call” section, which offers international visibility to artists without any cost, as well as “Guest State”, which highlights Mexican artists from various backgrounds, and “Editorial Room,” which presents a selection of publishing houses, books and rare specialty publications.

Salón Acme event in 2022.
Salón Acme event in 2022. (Salón Acme Facebook)

Other sections are “La Bodega Acme,” which gives continuity to the work of past exhibitor artists, “Guest Project,” which involves national and international galleries, and “Public Programs,” which offers a series of talks and roundtables related to art. 

Visitors can discuss the exhibited pieces with their creators as artists are often on hand, with no galleries involved in the process. For more information visit the Salón Acme site.

BADA 2023

Visitors at BADA art fair in 2022. (BADA Facebook)

The BADA art fair is a platform that allows artists to self-manage and generate their own sales and contacts. The fair includes disciplines from painting and drawing to printmaking, photography, textiles, sculpture, artistic jewelry and tattoos. BADA also hosts fairs in Argentina and Spain.

At the event, 100 established and emerging artists will exhibit their work directly, allowing visitors to view and purchase their works without intermediaries. The BADA concept is: “We bring art closer to people, showing that we can all be collectors.” 

The event will take place at Campo Marte and will also include workshops; more information can be found on their website.

With reports from La Lista, MxCity, Art Fair Magazine and EFE

Aeroméxico announces new flight from AIFA to Houston

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Aeromexico airplane
The new route was authorized by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) despite a current FAA ban on airlines adding flights to the United States from Mexico's airports. (Photo: Creative Commons)

Starting May 1, Aeroméxico will become the first airline to fly from Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) to the United States. The direct flight will connect Mexico City and Houston, Texas, with daily flights onboard an Embraer 190.

“After a regulatory assessment of the current conditions, U.S. and Mexican authorities approved the route, considering that AIFA also serves the metropolitan area of ​​the Valley of Mexico,” Aeroméxico said in a statement, adding that tickets will be available for sale in the next few days. 

According to the company, the scheduled flights to Houston from the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) will not be affected by the new flights.

Houston will be the ninth destination Aeroméxico offers from AIFA in addition to Acapulco, Cancún, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Mérida, Oaxaca, Puerto Vallarta and Veracruz. 

Aeroméxico’s goal is to expand its connectivity network between Mexico and the United States with 22 routes from AIFA.

The airline obtained authorizations from Mexico and the United States to operate the route, despite Mexico’s loss of its Category 1 air safety rating with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration in May 2021. Part of the consequences of being downgraded to Category 2 status was a prohibition against Mexico’s airlines adding new routes to the United States until Category 1 status is restored. 

Aeromexico said it will continue to support the FAA’s aeronautical authority in the matter. 

AIFA is one of president López Obrador’s flagship projects. It opened on March 21, 2022.

With reports from Forbes online and El Financiero

Snow shuts down border highways in Baja California

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A lone car navigates a snowy highway near La Rumorosa, Baja California.
A lone car navigates a snowy highway near La Rumorosa, Baja California. (Twitter @mediosobsonmx)

The fifth winter storm of the season has hit northwestern Mexico, causing heavy snow in Baja California that has shut down highways and forced local schools to close.

The Centinela-La Rumorosa highway, the main route along the U.S. border, was temporarily closed in both directions on Tuesday morning, after heavy snowfall that started on Monday night in the town of La Rumorosa in the municipality of Tecate. Local authorities have set up a temporary shelter and are coordinating with the Red Cross to provide assistance to those who need it.

As of shortly before 11 a.m. local time, the state transportation ministry announced that the Centinela-La Rumorosa highway was open in both directions. The La Rumorosa-Tecate free highway was also open in both directions while the La Rumorosa-Tecate tollway remained closed, the ministry said.

The storm is the result of cold fronts and bands of low pressure interacting across the northwest of the country. This has caused heavy rains and gusty winds of up to 90 km/h in Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Durango, with sleet and snow in the mountainous regions of Baja California.

On Sunday night, the government of Baja California announced school closures in the municipalities of Tijuana, Ensenada, Tecate, Rosarito and San Quintín, in anticipation of the extreme weather conditions.

Local people were also advised to wrap up warm, drive with caution, avoid unnecessary journeys and call 911 in case of emergency.

Meanwhile, another cold front interacting with the subtropical jet stream has brought high winds, heavy rains and fog banks to the northeastern states of Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas.

The National Weather Service (SMN) projects that the storm conditions will continue throughout Tuesday and into Wednesday, with more extreme weather likely during the coming month.

With reports from Zeta Tijuana, Linea Directa and La Lista

Federal, state officials meet to discuss nearshoring opportunities

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According to reporting by El Financiero newspaper, the Economy Ministry has shut down offices in Switzerland and the United States. (Twitter @SE_mx)

All 32 federal entities have the opportunity to benefit from the nearshoring phenomenon, Economy Minister Raquel Buenrostro said Monday.

The Economy Ministry (SE) said in a statement that Buenrostro and other federal officials met with the economic development ministers of Mexico’s entities (including 31 states and federal entity of Mexico City) in order to “share joint strategies to take advantage of the relocation of new industries.”

The federal economy minister, the statement said, “emphasized the commitment” of the SE to “facilitate and accompany investment projects via a ventanilla única for investors.”

The ventanilla única is a streamlined system that allows foreign investors to complete all bureaucratic procedures on a single website.

Buenrostro told the economic development ministers that “due to its geopolitical position,” Mexico is well-placed to attract foreign investment.

“All [32 entities] are potential candidates to receive investment,” she said.

The economy minister told state officials that companies across five sectors — semiconductors, automotive, electricity and electronics, medical and pharmaceutical devices and agro-industry — are especially well-suited to relocating to Mexico.

Buenrostro, the SE statement added, “called on the state ministers to draw up a work plan for the next two years.”

“Among the points it must contain is a diagnosis of the productive vocation of each entity,” the ministry said.

Buenrostro said last November that “more than 400 North American companies have the intention to carry out a relocation process from Asia to Mexico,” while billionaire businessman Carlos Slim predicts that the nearshoring phenomenon — which is already benefiting some regions — will fuel strong economic growth in coming years.

The SE said in December that Buenrostro and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo would collaborate to put together a “joint presentation” to the private sector in early 2023 in order to “disseminate the opportunities and economic and fiscal benefits that both countries offer for the relocation of companies.”

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Mexican ‘unicorn’ freight forwarder startup opens office in the US

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Founders of Nowports, left to right, Alfonso de los Ríos and Maxamiliano Casal
Nowports' founders, from left to right, Alfonso de los Ríos and Maxamiliano Casal. (Photo: courtesy)

Nowports, an automated digital freight forwarder based in Monterrey, has opened its first branch in the United States. 

Founded in 2018 by Mexican Alfonso de los Ríos and Uruguayan Maximiliano Casal, the company has arrived in Miami, Florida, looking to expand in North America before making the jump to Europe, Players of Life magazine reported.

“Miami is the Latin American hub. It was a no-brainer for us to open an office in Miami in order to support our customer base,” said Alan Bebchik, country manager of the new Nowports headquarters in the United States. He added that the growth in shipping to the US East Coast – and the port of Miami specifically – also made the city an attractive place for their branch.

Nowports company board of directors at Mastercard Gala Endeavor
Nowports board of directors at the Mastercard Gala Endeavor in December, where they won Entrepreneurs of the Year. (Photo: courtesy)

Nowports got its first big boost in 2018 when it was accepted into Y Combinator, the Silicon Valley accelerator, where they secured an investment of US $5.3 million dollars. Later in 2019, Nowports closed a $150 million Series C round with investors that included SoftBank, Tiger Global, Foundation Capitall and Monashees. In 2022, it officially became a “unicorn” when it announced its valuation had climbed to US $1.1 billion after an investment round led by SoftBank’s Latin America Fund.

The company, which currently operates in seven countries in Latin America (Mexico, Colombia, Uruguay, Peru, Brazil and Panama), set up shop in Wynwood and 12 of its 950 employees are based there with plans to double its local headcount by May, reported Refresh Miami.

“We believe that transforming the supply chain in emerging markets can boost their economic growth,” said Alfonso de los Ríos, Nowports’ 23-year-old co-founder and CEO. “The opening of our office in Miami is a step in that direction. We are going to see a more intertwined commercial relationship between the US and Latin America in the next few years. Digitization of supply chains will be a crucial aspect of this new era.”

Nowports has also developed Nowports Capital, a fintech company that provides inventory credit solutions and an internal insurance company for their freight forwarding customers.

The company has received several recognitions, named as one of the 10 most innovative companies in Latin America in 2022 and the founders as “Entrepreneurs of the Year” by Endeavor México.

With reports from Players of Life and Refresh Miami

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