Ciudad Juárez is an export manufacturing center across from El Paso and the Mexican side of the Ysleta port of entry, which carried 17.5 percent of U.S.-Mexico truck trade by value in 2025 (BTS). Pick a lane in the directory to open its guide, and read how plant pickups, the transfer into El Paso and customs work here. Cargado is a marketplace where brokers post Mexico and Canada truck freight and vetted carriers bid on it.
Ysleta-Zaragoza
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Ciudad Juárez's export factories, the maquiladoras, build wire harnesses, automotive electronics, appliances, medical devices and machinery for the U.S. market. The Ysleta port of entry across the river carried $112.4 billion of truck freight in 2025, 17.5 percent of U.S.-Mexico truck trade by value and up 34.8 percent on the year, with Santa Teresa, New Mexico, adding $33.0 billion (BTS Transborder Freight Data Annual Report: 2025). The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas describes growth in medical device manufacturing and a shift toward higher-value electronics for data centers. Northbound, expect finished plant goods, metals and machinery; southbound, components, copper wire, resins and packaging. Chihuahua city, about four hours south on Federal Highway 45, shares the same gateway.
Mexico guides connect Ciudad Juárez with Chihuahua, Monterrey, Saltillo, Hermosillo, Mexicali, Tijuana, the Bajío, Toluca, Mexico City and Puebla, with Pachuca outbound and Cuernavaca, Nuevo Laredo and Aguascalientes inbound. U.S. guides run to Laredo, Texas markets, the Midwest, Southeast, Northeast and California, and back from the same regions plus Phoenix. One Canada guide runs each way with Vancouver. The cross-border lane guides name their crossing, Ysleta-Zaragoza or Santa Teresa; the Mexico lanes are domestic moves with no crossing, so confirm which kind you are covering and who handles the transfer before you post.
Ysleta-Zaragoza is the default commercial bridge. Santa Teresa, New Mexico, serves plants on the west side of Juárez and avoids city traffic; the Bridge of the Americas is closer to downtown, but GSA plans to end commercial processing there during its modernization, so confirm availability for the shipment date. Choose by where the plant or yard sits and which crossing your Mexican carrier and customs broker are set up at, and name it on the posting.
A Mexican carrier or the plant's drayage brings the trailer to a Juárez yard, a transfer tractor crosses it, and a U.S. carrier picks up in El Paso. A transload instead moves the cargo to a U.S. trailer at an El Paso dock. Post the leg you need covered and check what each bid includes: the transfer, any transload, trailer use and detention.
Northbound, the Mexican export is handled in Juárez and a U.S. customs broker usually files the U.S. entry; southbound, the importer's licensed Mexican customs broker, or an authorized representative, files the Mexican entry. Confirm the commercial invoice, packing list and who issues the CFDI, Mexico's electronic tax document, with Carta Porte details when required. Agree on free time, detention and storage before dispatch.
Most commercial freight crosses the Ysleta-Zaragoza bridge into El Paso. Santa Teresa, New Mexico, serves the west side of the city, and the Bridge of the Americas sits closer to downtown but is slated to lose commercial processing during its modernization. Each cross-border lane guide on this hub names the crossing it uses; domestic Mexico lanes have no crossing.
For any Mexico leg, yes: it needs a carrier with Mexican operating authority. A lane from Juárez to a U.S. city usually starts with a transfer at the bridge and continues on a U.S. carrier. State the leg you need covered when you post on Cargado so the carriers authorized for it can bid.
Post the pickup and delivery, the date, the equipment and the leg you need covered. For a Mexico move, include the crossing and the handoff plan; for a Canada lane, the customs broker and the release arrangement. Vetted carriers that run the corridor bid, and you compare what each bid covers before you book. Where a corridor has enough bid history, Cargado Market Rates gives you a reference built from carrier bids before you quote.
Dry van leads, carrying plant freight in both directions. Open deck carries metals, machinery and building materials, and reefer demand is smaller. Post the trailer type with the weight, dimensions and loading requirements so carriers can price the load.
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