TRANSPORT NEWS * USA / CAN / MEX
* NAFTA Surface Trade Continues Year-to-Year Gains
Washington,DC,USA -TruckingInfo -11 Nov 2011: -- Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American neighbors, Canada and Mexico, was 13.8 percent higher in September 2011 than in September 2010, totaling $77.7 billion... The Bureau of Transportation Statistics of the U.S. Department of Transportation has reported double-digit year-over-year gains every month of 2011 compared to 2010, and many months of successive year-over-year gains going back two or more years... Surface transportation includes freight movements by truck, rail, pipeline, mail, Foreign Trade Zones, and other. In September, 85.6 percent of U.S. trade by value with Canada and Mexico moved via land, 9.8 percent moved by vessel, and 4.5 percent moved by air... U.S.-Canada and U.S.-Mexico surface transportation trade both increased compared to September 2010 with U.S.-Canada reaching $46.1 billion, a 14.7 percent increase, and U.S.-Mexico reaching $31.6 billion, a 12.5 percent increase...
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