Watch: CNW's Philippe Grinstein on building resilience and speed in Mexico’s supply chains

As Mexico cements its position in global automotive production, CNW Global is scaling its logistics network to meet the region’s growing demands for speed, flexibility, and local integration. Ahead of the Automotive Logistics and Supply Chain Mexico 2025 conference, Philippe Grinstein, CEO of CNW Global, said the company has evolved from focusing solely on air freight for tier-one suppliers to offering more domestic transport and sequencing services between local manufacturers and OEM plants.

“Mexico is a tricky market because it acts both as a feeder to the United States and as a finished vehicle manufacturer,” Grinstein explained. “We’ve built a wide variety of services that can support both instances.”

To keep pace with the sector’s transformation, CNW has expanded its brick-and-mortar footprint across 29 countries and 49 cities, including key Mexican locations such as El Paso–Juárez and Guadalajara. “It’s important to have boots on the ground so we can pick up really quickly,” he said. “Automotive customers don’t like to wait for their shipments. It’s an extremely urgent, at times panicky, supply chain.”

Grinstein added that Mexico’s manufacturing base remains secure despite global uncertainty. Protected by the USMCA trade agreement and bolstered by substantial OEM investment from Ford, Honda, Toyota and others, the country has become both a critical production hub and a flexible supplier to the United States and Europe.

The key, he said, lies in maintaining agility. “Sometimes Mexico acts as a supplier to the US and sometimes as a manufacturing hub in itself,” he noted. “So, it’s about staying flexible worldwide – having inbound solutions when Mexico is the end OEM, and outbound ones when it’s feeding the US or Germany.”

Automotive Logistics & Supply Chain Mexico

11-13 November | Mexico City, Mexico

From hand-carry and air charter to cross-border trucking, CNW’s expanding portfolio aims to provide automotive customers with “a one-stop shop” for critical logistics. “Customers know they can count on CNW to deliver whatever they need, anytime, reliably and efficiently,” Grinstein said.

As production footprints and trade dynamics continue to evolve, CNW Global’s commitment to agility and infrastructure investment is helping ensure Mexico remains a cornerstone of North American automotive manufacturing.

Humberto Bastida, Mexico country manager at CNW, will be speaking at ALSC  Mexico, running from 11-13 November, on the panel 'Local agility, global competitiveness: Mexico’s path to supply chain resilience'. There's still time to register to attend here.