New Texas-Mexico Border Project to Improve Truck Processing
Will Add Wide Load Lane, Inspection Booth, Canopy by Next Year
An aerial view of the export lot area at Free Trade International Bridge in Los Indios, Texas. (Customs and Border Protection)
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Customs and Border Protection has partnered with Texas in a donations-acceptance program for a $6.9 million construction project to more efficiently process trucks bringing in cargo from Mexico over the Los Indios border crossing.
Some 25 miles northwest of Brownsville, the Los Indios Land Port of Entry has been operating since 1992 with two lanes in each direction about 10 miles south of Harlingen and San Benito in Cameron County, Texas.
“Inspection of commodities would be efficiently streamlined from gate to gate wit…