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Irapuato, Guanajuato to Tehuacán, Puebla freight

Irapuato, Guanajuato to Tehuacán, Puebla freight

The Irapuato to Tehuacán corridor runs within Mexico. On Cargado, multiple carriers bid here in the past year.

Direction

Domestic Mexico

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 Irapuato market (Irapuato, Silao, Celaya, Guanajuato, Apaseo El Grande, Salamanca) with the Tehuacán market (Tehuacán, Ixtaczoquitlán, Orizaba, Córdoba, Tepanco De López, Nogales), running within Mexico. Over the past 12 months brokers posted this corridor to the Cargado marketplace. Multiple carriers bid here in the past year.

What ships from Irapuato

Freight out of the Irapuato market leans toward automotive parts, food and beverage and pharma and veterinary products 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.

Domestic Mexico

This is an intra-Mexico corridor: no border crossing, no transloading. Loads on Mexican federal highways travel with a stamped carta porte, and Mexican carriers bid on domestic freight in the marketplace alongside international lanes.

Cargado's marketplace brings verified carriers to corridors like this one, with carrier vetting handled before bidding and banded rate context available in the product.

The markets on this lane

Origin market

Irapuato, GUA

Irapuato sits in the Bajío auto corridor, where Guanajuato built about 22% of Mexico's light vehicles in 2025. The state's plants make pickups, SUVs and compact cars that ship mostly to the United States, and the corridor also produces auto parts and packaged food. Freight leaves by highway MEX-45 and by Ferromex rail from the Puerto Interior dry port in Silao.

Industries: Vehicle assembly, auto parts, food processing, dry port and logistics services, export manufacturing

  • Industrial park: Industrial and logistics complex with industrial parks, customs and an intermodal terminal. 1,506 hectares, 140 companies, more than 40,000 direct jobs (operating). Source
  • Customs office: Interior customs office inside the dry port, Panamericana highway km 160. Import and export clearance inland (operating). Source
  • Intermodal or rail yard: Ferromex container terminal at the dry port, with non-stop service to Chicago (operating). Source
  • Vehicle assembly plants: Four light-vehicle assembly plants in Guanajuato making pickups, SUVs, compacts and electrified models. 877,463 vehicles built in 2025, 22.1% of national output; plants averaged 80.2% of installed capacity (operating). Source
  • Industrial park: Guanajuato's industrial park network, including parks in Irapuato. 48 parks in 17 municipalities, 7,173 hectares of industrial land, 3,650 hectares available (operating). Source
  • Intermodal or rail yard: Inland rail terminal in Celaya, a development hub declared by the national government in July 2025, to be served by CPKC and Ferromex. 52 hectares (planned). Source

Distribution: A rail container terminal and customs office at the dry port, and a planned inland rail terminal in Celaya.

Destination market

Tehuacán, PUE

Tehuacán is an inland industrial city in southeast Puebla known for egg and poultry production and a large denim and apparel sector. It has an industrial park and an airport. The municipality's international sales were US$243 million in 2023, mostly men's suits and sets and nearly all to the United States, and the apparel sector has been shrinking, with more than 40% of the region's maquiladoras reported closed in December 2025.

Industries: Eggs and poultry, denim and apparel, light manufacturing, distribution

  • Industrial park: Tehuacán Industrial Park, with automotive, molded-cardboard, recycling and distribution plants. 90 hectares, 19 plants and about 2,000 direct jobs in October 2025; more than a third of the land unoccupied. Source
  • Egg production: Puebla's egg industry, reported through the Tehuacán poultry producers' association, with incubators among its infrastructure. Puebla: 21 companies, 160 farms, 561.6 million eggs a month (state level). Source
  • Airport: Tehuacán airport, whose runway limits aircraft loads to 5 metric tons as reported in January 2026; a runway upgrade for up to 50 metric tons is under discussion with investors. 5 metric tons current limit; 50 metric tons proposed. Source
  • Denim sewing and laundry shops: Formal and informal sewing and wash operations in Tehuacán, Ajalpan and San Gabriel Chilac. More than 40% of the region's 1,000-plus maquiladoras closed, reported December 2025. Source
  • Municipal exports: Tehuacán municipality's international sales. US$243 million in 2023, US$238 million of it to the United States; 62% men's suits and sets. Source

Distribution: Distribution warehouses inside the state industrial park, which are distribution centers for companies based in Tehuacán and the region.

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 Irapuato to Tehuacán?

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 Irapuato to Tehuacán 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.

Does Cargado handle domestic Mexico freight?

Yes. Brokers post intra-Mexico moves alongside cross-border freight, and Mexican carriers bid on them the same way. Domestic loads on federal highways still need a stamped carta porte.

Moving freight on this lane?

Post it to 2,350+ vetted Mexico and Canada carriers, or check market rates built from real carrier bids before you quote.