LAREDO, Texas, May 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The City of Laredo is launching a yearlong celebration marking 25 years of the World Trade Bridge, a vital commercial gateway that transformed Laredo ...

The bridge was conceived in the ... lanes — now expanded to fourteen. Port Laredo currently handles over 40% of all U.S.–Mexico land trade, with daily traffic ranging from 15,000 to 18,000 ...

The bridge was conceived in the 1990s in response to NAFTA-era congestion in downtown Laredo. With support from both sides of the border, construction was completed in under two years, opening with ...

Officials report that the Colombia Bridge project is still awaiting presidential permit approval, which remains under federal review. The Trump administration was given 60 days to review the ...

(Photo credit: Border-Now) Twenty-five years ago, on April 15, 2000, the World Trade Bridge opened between Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, not just as another concrete span across the Rio ...

LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS)—Talks between officials and protesters at the World Trade Bridge seem to work, as traffic continued to flow Thursday evening, November 14. There had been much attention ...

LAREDO, Texas — Laredo, Texas ... More than 55,000 trucks cross from Mexico over the World Trade Bridge into the U.S. weekly. But with more capacity than freight to haul, he fears some companies may ...