As delays continue to mount at the San Ysidro Port of Entry between the United States and Mexico, shipping companies need to take every possible step, including using secure faxing through FoIP, to ensure that goods can move as seamlessly as possible between the two nations.
San Ysidro, which serves as the critical gateway between San Diego County in California and the Mexican city of Tijuana, is one of the busiest crossings on the shared border between the U.S. and Mexico. According to a 2013 report from the San Diego Association of Governments Committee on Binational Regional Opportunities, San Ysidro handled approximately 55.5 million crossings each way during the last year in which statistics were tallied, putting the point of entry on par with some of the biggest airports in the U.S. in regard to total traffic. This makes San Ysidro one of the busiest international border crossing stations in the world.
"The number of travelers almost equals that of the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), which accommodated 63.6 million air passengers in 2012. In past years, the San Ysidro POE equaled or even surpassed LAX," the report noted.
However, the point of entry is not always equipped to handle such a large volume of traffic. Voice of San Diego reported that cars and trucks can easily wait in hours of traffic trying to get from one country to the other, and this delay can quickly put a damper of all types of international traffic.
Calculating the economic impact of inefficient border crossings
While both sides are working to make the point of entry more efficient and productive, relief may be a long time coming for those in the area. These delays are an inconvenience for residents, but they can be especially problematic for companies that ship goods by truck or van between the U.S. and Mexico via this critical point of entry. For every hour of delay that a shipment sits in traffic at San Ysidro and not at its final location, businesses can lose hundreds of dollars, making these issues a major financial headache. According to statistics cited by Voice of San Diego, approximately 62,000 jobs and $7.2 billion in economic activity are lost in a year due to these border crossing issues.
"People face very arbitrary wait times that can go two, three, four hours and they won't cross," former San Diego mayor Bob Filner said.
To help make border shipments smoother while construction and repairs go on, companies that utilize overland shipping methods that go through San Ysidro should to FoIP for international faxing, which stands for fax over IP. With this secure faxing method in place, businesses can make sure that the proper paperwork needed to send goods between different countries is always in place. Traffic can sometimes impede international commerce, but secure faxing through FoIP will ensure that documentation-related issues never do. Businesses need to take every step possible to get goods to market as quickly as possible, and secure faxing can be a huge asset in this regard.
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