Mexico could be another China: a prodigious exporter that also has ideal climate conditions and growing regions for succulent fruits and produce.
But because of its location abutting the United States, the historic mode for getting limes, lemons, avocados, berries, and papayas from Mexico to the Northeast has been by truck – through long lines at border crossings and across congested highways.
Now, a group of area business owners with a stake in the Philadelphia port want to bring those cargoes – and anything else that Mexico exports – on an ocean route to Philadelphia.
To read the rest of the story, please go to: Philadelphia Inquirer