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Jun 30, 2008

TRANSPORTATION NEWS * NAFTA - Trade Reaches Record

Surface trade among the United States, Canada and Mexico reached a record high level in April

USA -Transport Topics -30 June 2008: -- The Department of Transportation said that trade among the North American Free Trade Agreement partners jumped 14.3% from a year ago to a record $74.3 billion, DOT’s Bureau of Trade Statistics said in its monthly report... Truck imports to the United States rose 5.8% year-over-year to $24.9 billion, while exports rose 12.4% to $24.5 billion... About 90% of U.S. trade among NAFTA partners moves by land... (Photo by Larry Smith/Trans Pixs)

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Jun 24, 2008

Transport Improvements * Ghana - World Bank supports transport improvements in West Africa

Accra,Ghana -Joy Online -23 June 2008: -- The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved a US$190 million regional operation to finance transport and transit improvements in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Mali... The Corridor Transport and Transit Facilitation Measures will strengthen the capacity of customs and transport authorities to better manage the movement of transit traffic along the corridor. This will help construct a satellite transit truck village adjacent to the Port of Tema and rehabilitate and equip Faladie multi-functional platform in Bamako. It will also support the upgrading of customs-relation information and communication technology and extension of cargo tracking system to better monitor and secure transit traffic and build capacity and technical assistance support to improve the effectiveness of customs and transport authorities to monitor and control transit traffic...

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Nov 18, 2007

Transportation News * USA - Intermodal volumes are strong despite market conditions

Calverton,Md,USA -Logistic Management -17 Nov 2007: -- Despite the current economic slowdown, which has taken its toll on the freight transportation industry due to things like decreasing import volumes and domestic freight demand, total intermodal growth for the third quarter of this year was the second-best quarter ever recorded, according to Intermodal Market Trends & Statistics, a quarterly report published by the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA)... IANA reported that the total quarterly volume 3,618,617 loadings trail only last years third quarter, which came in at 3,699,544 units—or 2.2 percent better. And it added that growth in the third quarter outperformed the second quarter of this year by 3.5 percent. Domestic containers for the third quarter were 10.0 percent ahead of last year at 919,085, and international intermodal volume was 2,172,645, which was 3.7 percent off of the third quarter in 2006...

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May 16, 2007

TRANSPORTS' NEWS * Croatia - Trucks To Travel By Train Soon

Will the trains for conveying trucks between the Turkish terminal in Halkali and the Austrian terminal in Wels start commuting?

Hina,Croatia -Javno.hr (Zagreb,Croatia), by Joseph Stedul -15 May 2007: -- Today, in the Croatian Railways (HZ), a meeting was held by the head people of HZ Holding, Turkish Raiways, Railways of Serbia, Austrian companies Railcargo and Okombi, and Bulgarian and Slovenian Railways, at which the option of transporting trucks by rail (RoLa trains) between the Turkish terminal in Halkali and the Austrian terminal in Wels was discussed... The meetings, according to the Croatian Railways report, was held on the initiative of the Turkish railways who initiated the solution to the obstacles for the realization of the project started last autumn...

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Apr 5, 2007

Transportation * USA - As the trash train rolls, fewer trucks clog roads

Smelly cargo transported over a rail bridge to N.J. for the first time

Staten Island,NY,USA -The Staten Island Advance, by MAURA YATES -April 03, 2007: -- There were nearly four dozen fewer trucks to rumble along the West Shore Expressway and across the Goethals Bridge yesterday, as, instead, the first trainload of the borough's garbage rolled across the Arthur Kill Lift Bridge to Elizabeth, N.J.... A nine-car test train carried 40 tractor-trailer-sized containers of trash from the Waste Transfer Station at the former Fresh Kills Landfill to New Jersey over the lift bridge during Staten Island's long-awaited reconnection to the national rail network...

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