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TRUCKING STATISTICS * USA & Canada & Europe
* Canada - CGFI Report: Ground transportation costs rise for fourth straight month
Toronto,ONT,CAN -Truck News -1 Sept 2011: -- The cost of ground transportation for Canadian shippers increased again in June, the fourth consecutive monthly increase, according to results published by the Canadian General Freight Index (CGFI)... The CGFI Total Freight Costs Index rose by 1% in June when compared to May. The Base Rate Index, which excludes the impact of fuel surcharges assessed by carriers, increased by 0.8% during the same period. Notably, average fuel surcharges assessed by carriers declined for the first time in eight months from 20.3% of base rates to 19.3%...
* USA - Truck tonnage dips in July
Arlington,VA,USA -Truck News (CAN) -24 Aug 2011: -- US for-hire truck tonnage fell 1.3% in July after rising a revised 2.6% in June. June's increase was slightly less than the 2.8% the American Trucking Associations reported on July 26... Compared with July 2010, seasonally adjusted tonnage was up 3.9%. In June, the tonnage index was up 6.5% year-over-year...
* Canada - TransCore's Freight Index sees summer slow-down
Toronto,ONT,Canada -Truck News -Aug 22, 2011: -- TransCore's Canadian Freight Index for July was down 22% month-over-month, but had a 3% increase year-over-year. For the last five years, July has experienced a decrease from June levels; however, July 2011 had the biggest decline in volumes since July 2007... Equipment postings in July dropped from the increases of the past two months. Capacity was also down 10% from July 2010 and at the lowest recorded level for the month of July in more than five years. With lower volumes in load availability, the equipment-to-loads ratio saw an increase in July, reaching levels not seen since January of this year...
* European Freight Forwarding Index stable
Brussels,Belgium -Truck Europe, by Claude Yvens -5 Sept 2011: -- Few changes in the August edition of the European Freight Forwarding Index: the activity index increased from 43 to 46 (although those questioned had expected 50), but this situation was primarily influenced by a drop in air freight volumes. Forecasts for the next two months point to an index rising to 56 or 57 with road and sea freight expected to remain more or less stable, and air freight to recover...
* NAFTA - Surface Trade Rises 11 Percent
Washington,DC,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by William B. Cassidy -Aug 30, 2011: -- The dollar value of U.S. surface trade with Canada and Mexico rose 11 percent in June to $77.5 billion, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics said Tuesday... That’s a 52.7 percent increase from June 2009, when the economic recovery was just beginning, and a 4.6 percent increase over June 2008 — the previous high mark... U.S.-Canada surface trade reached $46.1 billion in June, a 9.7 percent year-over-year increase, and U.S.-Mexico trade hit $31.4 billion, a 12.8 percent increase...
* USA - Freight Index Inched Up in August
Washington,DC,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online -Sep 6, 2011: -- The Cass Freight Index for U.S. shipments grew 4.4 percent in August over the same month a year ago, the smallest gain in a year-and-a-half and a sign of fragile demand in the American economy... The closely watched measure of industrial freight demand improved 1.9 percent sequentially from July to August after tumbling 3.7 percent in July... Although the August shipment index showed demand gaining, the year-over-year gain was far slower than the 11 percent increase in July and the slimmest Cass has reported since the index contracted in February 2010... The Cass expenditures index jumped 15.8 percent in August over the same month a year ago, likely the result of higher energy and transportation costs. But the expenditures index fell 3.8 percent from July to August, signaling costs were running ahead of underlying demand...
* Truck Tonnage Falls 1.3 Percent
Washington,DC,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Mark Szakonyi -Aug 23, 2011: -- For-hire truck tonnage fell 1.3 percent in July after rising a revised 2.6 percent in June, indicating growth will be moderate for the rest of the year, said the American Trucking Associations... The decrease put the American Trucking Associations’ seasonally adjusted tonnage index at 114. The not-seasonally adjusted data, which reflect tonnage actually hauled by fleets, show an even bigger fall — a 9 percent drop from June to July... Seasonally adjusted truck tonnage in July grew 3.9 percent year-over-year, compared with a 6.5 percent increase in June...
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