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REGIONAL GOODS MOVEMENT
LOS ANGELES SAN DIEGO BAJA CA
Armando Freire
President CEO DIMEX Freight Systems
Inc.

AUGUST 2nd 2005
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MULTIMODAL CORRIDORS
THERE ARE CURRENTLY THREE NAFTA CORRIDORS AROUND
THE COUNTRY ONE OF THE MAIN CORRIDORS IS HERE IN
OUR BACK YARD THE I-5 CORRIDOR CONNECTS THE
MANUFACTURING CENTERS IN BAJA CALIFORNIA WITH THE
MAIN TRUCK, RAIL AND OCEAN FACILITIES IN THE LOS
ANGELES AREA
I-29
I-5
Los Angeles/Long Beach
SAN DIEGO
I-35
Tecate
TIJUANA
MEXICALI
ENSENADA



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DISTANCE IN KILOMETERS
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MEXICOS EXPORTS Percentage by
Port of Entry
100
80
60
40
20
10
0
Tijuana Otay Mesa 75
Mexicali Calexico 20
Tecate 5
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• CURRENT ESTIMATED VOLUMES AND POTENTIAL
  CAPACITY
• DIRECT RAIL SHIPMENTS 2001 2004 2005-2006
• IMPORTS TO MEXICO VIA RAIL 169 465
• EXPORTS FROM MEXICO VIA RAIL -0- -0-
• AVAILABLE RAIL CAPACITY Over 4400
• CURRENT CONTAINER MOVEMENTS THROUGH ENSENADA
  50 TUs p/month
• ENSENADA EXPANSION PROJECT COULD INCREASE ITS
  CAPACITY TO
• OVER 6000 TU
• TRUCK EXPORT/IMPORTS THROUGH OTAY MESA 1985
  1995 2005
• MEXICO EXPORTS 225 550 3000 p/day
• MEXICO IMPORTS 125 300 2000 p/day
• Rail Cars Per Month

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CURRENT TRAFFIC CONGESTION
Traffic delays in Tijuana due to lack of
infrastructure create long delays for Trucks to
reach the Customs Facilities.
Once in line, at times, trucks have from 2 to 4.5
hours delay to clear the entire Customs Process
Serious delays are also encountered during peak
traffic hours on the US side to reach the Port,
Rail and Distribution Facilities In the Los
Angeles area. Truck travel time between Long
Beach and Otay Mesa in 1985 was approximately
2.5 hours one way currently travel time is
in the range of 3.5 to 4.25 hours per trip.
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Northbound Truck Traffic Near Mexico Customs
Facility
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Northbound Truck Lanes
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Northbound Truck Lanes on days where the line is
over 5.5 miles long
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Northbound Truck Line
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• NOW THE GOOD NEWS
  
• NOT ALL NEWS IS BAD NEWS, CURRENTLY THERE
  ARE NUMEROUS PROJECT THAT COULD IMPROVE THE GOODS
  MOVEMENT IN THE REGIONT SOME MAY CREATE
  ADDITIONAL TRAFFIC PROBLEMS HOWEVER MANY MAY
  ACTUALY IMPROVE OUR TRAFFIC SITUATION
• The Port of Ensenada is working on an expansion
  project that together with a potential Intermodal
  Facility in the Tijuana area, could reduce some
  of the Long Beach-Tijuana Truck Traffic.
• There is a proposed new port in Punta Coronet
  south of Ensenada that once completed could
  remove a significant amout of Mexico and East
  Bound US traffic from Long Beach.
• The Port of San Diego is also working on an
  expansion project that will not do anything to
  improve the South Bay or Cross Border Traffic,
  but could reduce some of the Long Beach-San Diego
  truck traffic
• There are a number of other smaller projects in
  the works that could do some good to reduce
  traffic congenstion.
• The most significant of these projects is a joint
  venture between the short haul Rail Road and some
  Intermodal Truckers to build a full service
  Intermodal facility in the Tijuana/Tecate region.
  The significance of this project is that it would
  tie together many of these other ventures and
  could move several hundred trucks off the road
  between San Diego and the Los Angeles area by
  diverting the traffic from over the road to over
  the rail through the Tijuana-Plaster City rail
  corridor thus moving freight east bound without
  having to take space in our current highway.

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RAIL PORT LOGISTICS S.A. De C.V.
THE PROPOSED FACILITY WOULD TIE TOGETHER THE PORT
OF ENSENADA WITH THE RAILROAD VIA THE
ENSENADA-TIJUANA T7 TRUCK CORRIDOR THE FACILITY
ALSO PLANS TO HOST CUSTOMS FACILITY TO PROVIDE
DIRECT IMPORT AND EXPORT RAIL SERVICE WITHOUT THE
NEED TO CLUTTER THE CURRENT CUSTOMS FACILITIES AT
OTAY MESA
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PROPOSED LOCATION FOR THE RAIL PORT LOGISTICS
TERMINAL
Terminal
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A MULTIMODAL SOLUTION APEARS TO BE THE BEST
SOLUTION TO OUR REGIONS CONGESTION PROBLMES IF
ALL MODES OF TRANSPORTATION JOIN TOGETHER AS
EQUAL PARTNERS ,WE WILL FIND ADEQUATE SOLUTIONS.
THANK YOU
Armando Freire President CEO DIMEX Freight
Systems Inc