Elizabeth, NJ to El Paso, TX freight

The Elizabeth to El Paso corridor runs within the U.S., feeding the border gateway. On Cargado, multiple carriers bid here in the past year.

Direction

U.S. border feeder

Equipment on this lane

Dry van-led, with reefer demand

Carrier availability

Multiple carriers bid here in the past year

Marketplace activity

Posted by brokers on the Cargado marketplace

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This corridor connects the Elizabeth market (Linden, Newark, Kearny, Elizabeth, Edison) with the El Paso market (El Paso, Santa Teresa, Sunland Park, Anthony, Vado), running within the U.S., feeding the border gateway. Over the past 12 months brokers posted this corridor to the Cargado marketplace regularly. Multiple carriers bid here in the past year.

What ships from Elizabeth

Freight out of the Elizabeth market leans toward consumer goods, food and beverage and plastics and packaging based on what brokers actually post there. You can read more about moving these goods on the freight types pages.

Equipment on this corridor

Dry van-led, with reefer demand. Browse equipment definitions in the glossary if a term is unfamiliar.

Feeding the border

This U.S. leg connects inland freight with the border gateway at El Paso. Loads typically stage or transload there before crossing into Mexico, or distribute onward after clearing customs northbound. See the border crossings directory for how the gateway operates.

This corridor is one of many corridors with real bid history on Cargado, the marketplace connecting hundreds of brokers with verified Mexico and Canada carriers.

The markets on this lane

Origin market

Elizabeth, NJ

Elizabeth and Newark, New Jersey, are the container hub of the busiest port on the East Coast, with large marine terminals, on-dock rail, an airport cargo area and a large warehouse market. Containers move out by truck to nearby warehouses and by CSX and Norfolk Southern rail to the Midwest and Eastern Canada. Container terminal modernization and harbor deepening are planned, and a rebuilt truck entrance is scheduled for completion in 2028.

Industries: Container shipping, rail intermodal, vehicle imports and exports, air cargo and express parcels, warehousing and distribution

Seaport: Marine container terminals at Port Newark and Elizabeth, part of the Port of New York and New Jersey, the busiest port on the East Coast. 5,955,798 loaded TEUs port-wide in 2025 (operating). Source
Seaport: Modernization and expansion of container terminal operations and infrastructure across the port, and planned harbor deepening to 55 feet with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. More than $1.2 billion in private investment (planned). Source
Intermodal or rail yard: ExpressRail on-dock rail system, reaching the Midwest, New England and Eastern Canada (operating). Source
Seaport: Port Street Corridor northern entrance, a truck entrance rebuild; construction began November 2023; completion scheduled 2028. $220 million (under construction). Source
Airport: Newark Liberty International Airport cargo area. About 680,000 short tons of air cargo in 2025 (operating). Source
Foreign-trade zone: Foreign-Trade Zone No. 49, covering Port Newark, the Elizabeth marine terminal and the Port Jersey marine terminal. Source

Distribution: The Port Authority counts nearly one billion square feet of warehouse and distribution space within 50 miles of the port (2020).

Destination market

El Paso, TX

El Paso is the U.S. side of a cross-border freight corridor with Ciudad Juárez. Computer-related machinery and electrical machinery were the two largest U.S.-Mexico truck commodities by value in 2025, and the Ysleta crossing ranked second among U.S.-Mexico truck ports. Commercial truck processing at the Bridge of the Americas is scheduled to end in early 2028, and Union Pacific operates an intermodal terminal at Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

Industries: Computers and electronics, electrical equipment, auto parts, medical devices, metal products

Customs bridge/port: Ysleta commercial truck crossing. $112 billion of 2025 truck freight, second among U.S.-Mexico truck ports (operating). Source
Customs bridge/port: Bridge of the Americas land port of entry, where commercial truck processing ends when modernization construction starts in early 2028, with substantial completion slated for summer 2031 (planned). Source
Customs bridge/port: Marcelino Serna (Tornillo) commercial crossing. Commercial cargo processing resumed August 7, 2023 (reopened August 2023). Source
Intermodal or rail yard: Union Pacific Santa Teresa Intermodal Ramp, which replaced the El Paso ramp (opened April 2014). Source
Industrial park: Santa Teresa Gateway Rail Park, a master-planned park with direct access to the Santa Teresa port of entry and a connection to Union Pacific's intermodal complex, with Foreign Trade Zone space available. 1,300 acres; 225,000 units of annual lift capacity at the intermodal park. Source
Airport: El Paso International Airport air cargo center. 288,000 sq ft cargo complex. Source
Industrial park: Foreign-Trade Zone 68, with an airport site and private sites across El Paso County. 1,065-acre airport site plus 2,376 acres at other sites. Source

Distribution: Third-party logistics providers in Foreign-Trade Zone 68 offering public warehousing, distribution and storage, and the air cargo complex at the airport.

Market profiles describe industries and facility types from public government, industry, port, railroad and industrial-park sources. They name no shippers, manufacturers, retailers or logistics companies.

Common questions about this lane

How do I find carriers for Elizabeth to El Paso?

On Cargado, brokers post the corridor and vetted carriers bid on it. Multiple carriers bid here in the past year. Every carrier is verified before it can bid, which replaces cold-calling unknown carriers.

What equipment is available on the Elizabeth to El Paso corridor?

Postings here lean dry van-led, with reefer demand. If you need a type you do not see, post the load anyway. Carriers with matching equipment get notified automatically.

Why is a U.S. lane on a Mexico freight marketplace?

Because it feeds the border. Cross-border programs need the inland leg to and from the gateway, and brokers post those legs alongside the international move so one carrier network covers the whole program.

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