Latin America Infrastructure: Best & Worst

Mexico increased the cost and time to export and import containers. Here, Manzanillo, the largest port in Mexico. (Photo: Manzanillo Port Authority).

Latin America’s best and worst countries in transport infrastructure.

BY LATINVEX STAFF

Mexico declined while Colombia improved on the latest Latin America Transport Infrastructure Ranking from Latinvex.

The ranking, the most extensive of its kind, looks at 16 key factors that measure a country’s transport infrastructure quality: Quality of ports, air transport and roads; cost, time and documents required to export and import containers; efficiency of customs and border management clearance, ease of arranging competitively priced shipments, competence and quality of logistics services, ability to track and trace consignments, frequency with which shipments reach consignees within scheduled or expected delivery times and percent of paved roads and airport runways.

The ranking of 18 countries uses data from various Latin American governments, The World Bank, the World Economic Forum and the Central Intelligence Agency.

Mexico’s lower rank was due to ...

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Article Keywords: Brazil,  Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela

Ranking Keywords: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela


THE DATA 

Latin America Transport Infrastructure Ranking


Latin America Export Cost: Best & Worst

Latin America Import Cost: Best & Worst

Latin America Export Time: Best & Worst

Latin America Import Time: Best & Worst

Latin America Export Documents: Best & Worst

Latin America Import Documents: Best & Worst

Latin America Port Quality: Best & Worst

Latin America Air Transport Quality: Best & Worst

Latin America Percent Paved Airport Runways: Best & Worst

Latin America Road Quality: Best & Worst

Latin America Percent Paved Roads: Best & Worst

Latin America Customs: Best & Worst

Latin America Logistics Competence: Best & Worst

Latin America Tracking: Best & Worst

Latin America Timeliness: Best & Worst

Latin America Shipment Ease: Best & Worst