Dive Brief:
- Werner Enterprises plans to deploy 400 additional, 53-foot intermodal containers in Mexico, doubling its cross border capacity to 800 containers by year’s end, the company announced April 22.
- The additional containers will be distributed throughout its Mexico network, initially targeting Monterrey and Silao with Mexico City being added in the second half of 2026, per the release.
- “Intermodal demand has remained steady over the last 12 months, presenting a great opportunity to expand our growing asset footprint into Mexico,” the carrier said.
Dive Insight:
Werner is building on momentum of its growing logistics segment, where it has focused on reducing cost of service by finding efficiencies through increasing technology use, Chairman and CEO Derek Leathers said during the company’s Q4 earnings call with analysts in February.
Leathers said intermodal revenue, which represented 16% of the company’s logistics revenues in Q4, increased 24% year over year “almost entirely from higher volume.” Werner reported Q4 intermodal revenues increased by $6.5 million, crediting the growth to a 22% increase in shipments and relatively stable revenue per shipment, according to its earnings release.
“In logistics, intermodal and final mile, revenues and profits increased year over year,” Leathers said on the call. “Both of these divisions exited 2025 in growth mode, and we anticipate momentum continuing in 2026.”
The company’s move to grow its intermodal operations in Mexico comes as carriers deal with fluctuating diesel prices and tightening trucking capacity. J.B. Hunt, which reported a weekly intermodal volume record in March, is among other carriers seeking growth in that segment given strengthening demand.
Werner said its long history in Mexico, where it has operated since 1999, gives it the expertise to simplify cross-border shipping. The company said it has teams near Monterrey, Silao and Pantaco, where it offers 24/7 bilingual customer service and has relations with customs brokers at every rail ramp in Mexico.
“We want Mexican businesses to know there is a local, asset-based solution ready for them," Bernardo Alexander, Werner’s commercial VP of Mexico, said in the release. “By combining our advanced tracking technology with 24/7 bilingual support, we are removing the friction from cross-border trade and making the process more efficient than ever.”
