The following is excerpted from the 1 April 2011 edition of Canadian Transportation & Logistics ”ctl.ca”.

Trade using surface transportation between Canada, the US and Mexico was 19.5% higher in January 2011 than in January 2010, reaching $67.7 billion, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) of the US Department of Transportation.

BTS reported that the value of US surface transportation trade with Canada and Mexico in January rose 42.7% in two years from January 2009, which at $47.5 billion had the lowest amount of trade of any month since January 2004. Trade value in January was up 4.0% from the early recession level of January 2008.

This release is available in its entirety on the CTL website at:

http://www.ctl.ca/issues/story.aspx?aid=1000406787

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