Mexico City to Pachuca, Hidalgo freight

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The Mexico City to Pachuca 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 straight truck and 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 Mexico City market (Mexico City, Ecatepec De Morelos, Ciudad De México, Tlalnepantla De Baz, Naucalpan De Juárez, Tlalnepantla) with the Pachuca market (Tizayuca, Atitalaquía, Tezontepec, Tezoyuca, Pachuca, Jilotepec De Molina Enríquez), running within Mexico. 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 Mexico City

Freight out of the Mexico City market leans toward plastics and packaging, paper and packaging and machinery and industrial equipment 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 straight truck and 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 is where hundreds of brokers post corridors like this one to verified carriers. Every carrier is checked before it can bid, and banded market-rate context from real bids is built into the product.

The markets on this lane

Origin market

Mexico City, CMX

Mexico City's freight runs through two airports, a 54-hectare intermodal rail terminal and a 327-hectare wholesale food market. Its warehousing sits in industrial parks to the north in the State of Mexico. Freight reaches the US border by highway and by intermodal rail.

Industries: Wholesale food distribution, air cargo, logistics and e-commerce warehousing, rail intermodal, light manufacturing

Airport: Mexico City International Airport (AICM). 252,558 metric tons of cargo in 2025 (operating). Source
Airport: Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA). 406,193 metric tons of cargo in 2025, down 9.2% from 2024 (operating). Source
Intermodal or rail yard: Intermodal rail terminal serving Mexico City, with automated OCR gates and AI-assisted rail car sorting. 54 hectares, more than 500,000 TEU a year (operating). Source
Wholesale food market: Central de Abasto, described as the largest wholesale distribution market in the world. 327 hectares, more than 30,000 metric tons a day (operating). Source
Industrial park: State of México map of 228 industrial developments, including parks in Tepotzotlán, Huehuetoca, Cuautitlán, Cuautitlán Izcalli, Tecámac and Tultepec north of Mexico City. 228 industrial developments statewide (operating). Source
Distribution cluster: Distribution centers in the Valle de México metropolitan region, as reported by the State of México economy ministry. 360 distribution centers (operating as of August 2025). Source

Distribution: Warehousing in the industrial parks north of the city in the State of Mexico, and bonded air-cargo warehouses at both airports.

Destination market

Pachuca, HID

Pachuca is an inland distribution and light-manufacturing market on the Mexico-Pachuca highway corridor. Logistics and industrial parks anchor its freight, and a state economic-development pole for logistics, pharmaceuticals and medical devices is planned. Of the three freight railroads crossing Hidalgo, Ferrosur is the one that runs on to Pachuca.

Industries: Logistics and distribution, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, general manufacturing

Industrial park: Reserva Zapotlán economic-development pole for logistics, pharmaceuticals and medical devices. 910.81 hectares, estimated 10.1 billion pesos (planned). Source
Industrial park: Tizayuca Industrial Park, part of a 2026 state program to modernize industrial parks. 52.8 million pesos budgeted for 2026 works at this park and the Sahagún Industrial Zone. Source
Intermodal or rail yard: Ferrosur line that runs on to Pachuca and leaves Hidalgo through Tizayuca, one of three freight railroads crossing the state. Source
Airport: Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) air cargo terminal, where 16 bonded warehouses are set to operate. 34-hectare cargo terminal; about 406,000 metric tons in 2025 (operating). Source

Distribution: Logistics and industrial parks on the Mexico-Pachuca highway, such as Tizayuca Industrial Park, with Ferrosur rail service to Pachuca.

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 Mexico City to Pachuca?

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 Mexico City to Pachuca corridor?

Postings here lean dry van-led, with straight truck and 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.

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