Nuevo Laredo is the Mexican side of the Laredo gateway, where 46.1 percent of U.S.-Mexico truck trade by value crossed in 2025 (BTS). Pick a lane in the directory to open its guide, northbound or southbound, and read how the transfer yards, customs brokers and CFDI work on this side of the river. Cargado is a marketplace where brokers post Mexico and Canada truck freight and vetted carriers bid on it.
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Nuevo Laredo is the logistics center on the Mexican side of the Laredo gateway, where $296.2 billion of truck freight crossed in 2025, 46.1 percent of U.S.-Mexico truck trade by value (BTS Transborder Freight Data Annual Report: 2025). The city itself is more logistics than manufacturing: transfer carriers, customs brokerages, bonded warehouses and cross-docks that receive trailers from Monterrey, Saltillo, the Bajío and central Mexico and move them across the World Trade Bridge. Automotive parts, metals, appliances and machinery lead northbound; components, raw materials and consumer goods lead southbound.
Mexico guides connect Nuevo Laredo with Saltillo, Aguascalientes, the Bajío, Puebla, Toluca, Cuautitlán Izcalli and, inbound, Mexico City, Cuernavaca, San Luis Potosí and Reynosa; Tijuana appears outbound and Mexicali inbound. U.S. guides connect Nuevo Laredo with Laredo, Texas markets and the Midwest, Southeast, Northeast and West Coast. Canada guides run each way with Toronto and London, Ontario, and to Vancouver. A U.S. or Canada lane from Nuevo Laredo is usually the border-to-destination leg of a longer Mexican move, so confirm whether you need that leg or the door-to-door move, and who covers the crossing.
World Trade Bridge is the commercial default. Colombia-Solidarity, west of the city in Nuevo León, takes oversize or overweight freight after you confirm the permits, and overflow when queues build, provided your carrier and customs broker confirm hours, customs arrangements and a receiving yard at Colombia. Name the bridge and the Nuevo Laredo yard on the posting.
Much freight moves through-trailer: a Mexican linehaul carrier drops at a Nuevo Laredo yard, a transfer carrier crosses the trailer, and a U.S. carrier picks up in Laredo. A transload moves the cargo to another trailer at a dock on either side. Post the leg you need covered, and before comparing bids check what each covers: the transfer, any transload, trailer use and detention.
Southbound, the importer's licensed Mexican customs broker, or an authorized representative, files the Mexican entry. Northbound, the Mexican export side is handled here and a U.S. customs broker usually files the U.S. entry. Confirm who issues the CFDI, Mexico's electronic tax document, with its Carta Porte transport details when required, and agree on free time, detention and storage before dispatch.
Most commercial freight crosses the World Trade Bridge into Laredo. The Colombia-Solidarity Bridge, west of the city in Nuevo León, is the alternate for oversize or overweight loads and for days when World Trade Bridge queues build, once your carrier and customs broker confirm hours and a receiving yard at Colombia. Each cross-border lane guide on this hub names the crossing it uses; domestic Mexico lanes have no crossing.
For the Mexico leg, yes: it needs a carrier with Mexican operating authority. A lane from Nuevo Laredo to a U.S. city usually starts with the transfer across 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 border move, include the bridge and the handoff plan. 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, with reefer demand for produce, food and beverage and open deck demand for steel, coils and machinery. Post the trailer type with the weight, dimensions and loading requirements, and the temperature range for refrigerated freight, so carriers can price the load.
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