The Marine Secretariat (Semar) reported that the importation of electric cars and combustion of China, South Korea, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Thailand and Taiwan between January and May 2025 increased more than 20 percent.
Between January and May 2025, the port of Lázaro Cárdenas arrived by ships, such as Byd Xi’an, more than 201 thousand 802 electric vehicles and combustion, when in the same period of the year more than 168 thousand 448 units entered.
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Currently, the port of Lázaro Cárdenas is the one that most import and export cars embark on Mexico, even exceeded in that area to Veracruz.
Approximately 6 out of 10 imported cars to Mexico are acquired in Asian markets such as China, South Korea, Japan, India, Indonesia.
Chinese car brands began as Mg Motor, Byd, Chirey, Geely, Great Wall Motors, Changan, Jetour, began to have a strong presence in Mexican streets.
Imported electric, hybrid and combustion cars range from Chinese brands to those firms such as General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Kia and Peugeot, which have plants in Chinese cities.
“The port of Lázaro Cárdenas is the best entrance door for the mobilization (of China vehicles), which allows to maintain confidence in our partners, making a difference in our operational capacity, infrastructure and professional care,” said the administration of the National Port System (Asipona) Lázaro Cárdenas, when he received the first shipment of Byd Xi’an.
On June 13, 2025, the springs of the specialized car terminal in the port of Lázaro Cárdenas, operated by SSA Mexico, received the BYD Changzhou ship, which transferred 3 thousand 503 electric vehicles of the BYD brand. Five days later the Chinese ship Byd Changzhou landed in Mazatlan.
The Byd Changzhou ship, specialized in car carrier type transport, arrived from Asia, raising the Flag of Liberia, under the orders of Captain Vincent Maria Mohan Raj.
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The ship is one of the manufacturers of electric vehicles with high use of clean technologies that helps mitigate the GHG effects, it also maintains presence in more than 70 countries, presenting sustained growth in the main international markets.
“The arrival of this ship not only represents a logistics milestone, but also the strengthening of the commercial relationship with a brand that is transforming the world overview into electric transport,” said Asipona Lázaro Cárdenas.
Byd, the main Chinese manufacturer of electric vehicles, has five byd xi’an vehicles for the transfer of the units.
The port of Altamira increased 77 percent the landing of imported cars between January and May 2025.
From January to May of this year, the maritime terminal located in Tamaulipas received more than 6,382 units from abroad, when 3,601 cars arrived from the same period last year.
The import of cars through the port of Mazatlan fell more than 3.8 percent in the first five months of the year.
The Sinaloense maritime port landed 73 thousand 186 electric, hybrid and combustion vehicles between January and May 2025 in front of the 75 thousand 826 units received the same period last year.
The port of Veracruz, which at some time was one of the most used for the shipment and disembarking of vehicles, had a fall of 6.4 percent in the importation of vehicles from the outside.
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Between January and May 2025, more than 98,784 electric, hybrid and combustion vehicles were imported, when more than 105 thousand 578 units arrived in the same period last year.
Salina Cruz Oaxaca landed 900 KIA vehicles, which was described as a historical milestone for the interoceanic corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
