Just a few kilometers from the Felipe Ángeles International Airport, north of the Valley of Mexico, DHL’s Mega Campus is beginning to take shape. In the third quarter of 2025, the company received the second of four buildings that will make up its new operational center in T-MEX Park. With more than 110,000 square meters ready for operation—approximately half of the total development planned—the complex aims to strengthen the supply chains that support key sectors of the country, including automotive manufacturing and e-commerce.

Today, DHL manages roughly 1.4 million square meters of industrial space in Mexico, spread across more than 80 properties. Over the past year, its gross leasable area grew by nearly 12%, driven by the expansion of logistics operations in strategic corridors, including the Bajío, Monterrey, and the State of Mexico. More than a simple increase in footprint, this growth reflects a reorganization of space to centralize and optimize integrated services in storage, packaging, labeling and transportation.

The DHL case mirrors the broader national trend in the transportation and logistics sector. According to SiiLA, between the third quarter of 2024 and the same period in 2025, industrial space occupied by companies in the sector grew by about 4%—a moderate yet steady advance for the country’s third-largest industrial segment, behind only manufacturing and consumer goods, which rose 3% and 9%, respectively.

This momentum is supported by a wide range of operators that expanded their footprint this year. In the first nine months of 2025, nearly 70 transportation and logistics companies occupied close to half a million square meters, while turnover was virtually nonexistent. Beyond DHL, standouts include DSV Global, FedEx, Friodeli, Grupo Cargoquin, LX Pantos, Ryder System and SCM Soluciones en Logística, which together absorbed nearly 200,000 square meters.

This means that, so far this year, compared to the same period in 2024, there have been 11% more active tenants and 4% more area absorbed.

Business confidence not only expands a sector’s real estate base; it also translates into economic activity. National Accounts data show that the Transport, Postal and Storage component—which captures the country’s logistics activity—has maintained one of the strongest expansions of the current cycle. Based on estimates using INEGI data¹, the value added of this segment grew at a rate of around 10% annually on a compounded basis between 2020 and 2025, surpassing 1.5 trillion pesos in both years at constant 2018 prices.

When logistics grows, more than goods move—the country moves. International evidence shows that a robust logistics network enhances productivity, reduces costs that hinder competitiveness, facilitates the relocation of manufacturing, unlocks GDP growth, and expands opportunities in historically underserved regions. It also multiplies skilled employment and cushions external shocks. For this reason, in economic terms, logistics is not just a sector: it is the infrastructure that allows all others to exist.

Find detailed transportation and logistics market statistics on SiiLA Market Analytics or at contacto@siila.com.mx.

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¹ Source: INEGI, National Accounts (series 48–49 “Transport, Postal and Storage,” 2018 base, constant prices, millions of 2018 pesos). Author calculations for 2024–2025 using ETS and ARIMA models (Hyndman & Khandakar, 2008), selected by AIC criterion and combined through simple averaging to reduce specification bias. Calculations performed in R 4.3.1 (forecast and tidyverse packages). Projected 2025 value: 1.58 trillion pesos (2018 constant prices).