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TRUCKING COSTS * Canada: How much did 9/11 affect cost of northern cross-border trucking? - ** INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT: new bridge
* Ontario - Goods across the border U.S.A. / Canada increased from .3 to 0.6 percent of their value
-- Statistics Canada released a report in July that shows that since Sept. 11, 2001, the cost of trucking goods across the border between the U.S. and Canada has increased from .3 percent of the value of goods shipped to .6 percent... The study pointed to the obvious, the implementation of new security measures designed to prevent illegal shipments at border crossing points... Statistics Canada said the study resulted from data collected by Statistic Canada’s Trucking Commodity origin and Destination Survey...
** Ontario - New bridge on the border USA/Canada
-- Canada’s plan to build the Gordie Howe International Bridge is aimed in part at adding faster, cheaper shipping alternatives for such exports... The billion-dollar project calls for a six-lane bridge between Windsor and Detroit complete with a $250 million U.S. Customs plaza that Canada has agreed to fund. The bridge is scheduled to open by 2020... According to the CBC, the U.S. and Canada have the largest bilateral trading relationship in the world – measuring at $870 billion in 2014. An estimated $2.4 billion in goods and services cross the U.S.-Canada border every day...
Ottawa, ONT, CAN - Land Line, by Charlie Morasch - 25 Sept 2015
Labels: infrastructure projects, trucking industry costs, trucking industry news USA and Canada
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