MELI Effect

MELIEffect

A regional story, told country by country

The MELI Effect moves across Latin America in different ways. Choose a country to see how it plays out in each market.

LOGISTICS OPERATIONS

The network that shortensdistances and connects Mexico

4in5

shipments crossed at least one state line in 2025

Trucks, distribution centers and neighborhood shops. That physical network is what lets commerce reach further: an entrepreneur in the north can sell to someone in the south, and that package arrives in record time.

Cutting logistics costs and delivery times is what enables e-commerce to grow.

In 2025, Mercado Libre operated 138 logistics centers, with a direct presence in 67 towns or municipalities across 31 states, and more than 8,360 delivery and pickup points spread across all 32 states in the country. 4 out of 5 packages crossed a state line to reach their destination.

Cutting logistics costs and delivery times is what enables e-commerce to grow, and it benefits small, peripheral and low-ticket sellers the most. Mercado Libre's logistics map, which started out concentrated in the center of the country, has extended toward other large markets and logistics corridors such as Nuevo León, Jalisco, Guanajuato and Hidalgo, and then toward the north, the Gulf, the Pacific and the southeast.

That reach integrates the domestic market, connecting regional economies to centers of high demand, and spreads opportunities across the country, bringing the network closer to small cities it did not reach before. The last mile — the delivery and pickup points, many of them neighborhood shops — is the most visible end of that process.

2 of 3

SMEs that sell on the marketplace sold to a city they had not reached before

+8,200

net jobs in the logistics area were created in 2025