Suppliers Implico and Apollocom join forces to digitalize Mexico

Implico and Apollocom form partnership to bring terminal management system OpenTAS TMS to Central America.

The international IT company for the downstream industry Implico Group and the Mexican solutions integrator Apollocom have announced a new partnership.

Both companies have entered into an engagement to digitize the promising Mexican downstream sector together. At the center of their joint endeavor lies the terminal management system OpenTAS TMS, developed by Implico.

“Digitalization is key to success – this claim, which is currently more true than ever, can be applied to any industry or market. It is especially valid, however, for the Mexican downstream industry,” said Belinda Quijano, Managing Director at Apollocom.

Since the energy reform was issued, many of the world’s leading tank storage providers either started or announced the construction of storage facilities in Mexico. Besides these new structures, there are also more than 70 terminals operated by the state-owned national champion Pemex.

“We see great opportunity in Mexico,” says Thomas Roller, Head of Sales & Marketing at Implico. “On the one hand, the country possesses vast oil reserves and has a high daily demand for oil. On the other hand, it has only in recent years invited foreign companies to enter this business. This has created a special field of tension in which the most forward-looking and open-to-innovate companies will take the lead.