• MEASURES: Three of Mexico’s Pacific Coast seaports with direct trade links with China -Manzanillo, Lázaro Cárdenas and Ensenada- are already applying for the first time a detection protocol to prevent the spread of coronavirus through crews arriving from Asia.
• PROTOCOL: “If a ship comes directly from China to a Mexican port, we have to send a notice 48 hours in advance…If there is any suspicion that any crew member has symptoms of disease, it must be monitored 48 hours”, said Miguel Ángel Andrade, head of Mexico’s Shipping Agents Association.
• SIZE: The port of Manzanillo in the state of Colima is Mexico’s largest port by volume moving more than 3 million containers every year and is already the eighth largest port in the whole North America. The port of Lázaro Cárdenas in Michoacán -Mexico’s number two- moves 1.3 million containers
• SONORA: Last week, manufacturers in the northwestern state of Sonora reported interruptions in some production lines in the electric, auto, aerospace and medical equipment industries due to delays in the supply chain coming from China given the economic slowdown linked to coronavirus.
