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STATISTICS * USA & Canada - CanAm shipments down 28%; NAFTA land trade lowest ever
Washington,DC,USA -Truck News (CAN) -19 March 2010: -- U.S. surface transportation trade with Canada and Mexico fell 23.3 percent (to $637 billion) from 2008 to 2009, the largest year-over-year decrease for the 15 years covered by the data... According to the DOT's Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the value of land trade among the three NAFTA countries was down 31.1 percent in the first six months of 2009... U.S.-Canada surface transportation trade landed at $386 billion in 2009, down a whopping 28.1 percent compared to 2008. The value of imports carried by truck was 25.7 percent lower in 2009 than 2008, while the value of exports carried by truck was 20.2 percent lower... Land transportation trade between the U.S. and Mexico faired better. It was down 251 billion in 2009, 14.4 percent lower than the year before... Comparing 2009 to 2008, total North American surface transportation imports were down 26.5 percent, while exports dropped 19.2 percent during the same period...* Canada - Cross-border truck trips increase over '09
Toronto,ONT,CAN -Truck News -17 March 2010: -- Most major Ontario-U.S. bridge crossings saw a spike in commercial truck traffic activity in the first two months of the year compared to 2009... The Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, the Blue Water Bridge in Sarnia and the Peace Bridge in Fort Erie all reported increases in truck crossings last month, according to the Public Border Operators Association... Overall, truck traffic between Ontario, Michigan and New York increased by 12 percent from 907, 000 to just over a million crossings, while car traffic declined by 3 percent... (Images detroityes.com: The Ambassador Bridge Windsor) 
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