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CBC News
Higher shipments of passenger cars and light trucks south of the border helped drive up Canadian exports to the United States by 2.5 per cent in June to a record $37.1 billion, Statistics Canada reported recently.
The federal agency said imports from the United States edged up 0.3 per cent in June to $32.9 billion.
As a result, Canada's trade surplus with the United States widened from $3.3 billion in May to $4.1 billion.
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Canadian Shipper
Block Array announced open beta of new blockchain-based shipping document application, FreightTrust, and a new hazardous material joint venture to enable drop-shipping of hazardous materials.
FreightTrust is a blockchain-based application designed to eliminate the need for having a physical shipping documents, such as bills of lading.
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Freight Transport Association
The Freight Transport Association, which represents more than 17,000 businesses across the UK logistics sector, is urging government to act on the findings of today’s Home Affairs Committee report on migration, to ensure that UK business can continue to operate at full staffing levels after the UK leaves the EU.
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Government of Canada
Transport Canada's Rail Safety Improvement Program provides federal funding in the form of grants or contributions. This year, the department will be providing more than $20 million to fund 105 projects in 2018-2019. The program's objectives are to improve rail safety, contribute to increasing safety at grade crossings and along rail lines, and increase public confidence in Canada's rail transportation system.
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Canadian Shipper
The Railway Association of Canada (RAC) announced the winners of its annual Safety Awards, which recognize RAC member-companies' initiatives that help to ensure our country's rail network remains among the safest in the world. Four members — CP, VIA Rail, Cando Rail Services and Genesee & Wyoming — received awards for their outstanding safety leadership in 2018.
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Edmonton Sun
Canadian shipments of oil via rail have hit an all-time record high, and analysts expect shipments to go higher amid a pipeline crunch.
New data from the National Energy Board shows Canadian oil companies shipped an average of 198,788 barrels of oil per day on railway cars in May, the latest month for which data is available, marking a record high and a 42 per cent increase over the 130,916 bpd shipped on rail in the same month a year earlier.
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RailwayAge
The Association of American Railroads reported the latest weekly U.S. rail traffic continued to power ahead, driven by positive economic factors and looming fears over trade.
Volumes for the week ended August 4 were 570,995 carloads and intermodal units, up 4.2 percent from the same week a year ago.
Traffic was 279,907 carloads, up 3 percent, while intermodal volume was 291,088 containers and trailers, up 5.4 percent.
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Truckinginfo
With the news that Uber was abandoning its autonomous commercial vehicle research business (for now, anyway) a logical take-away would be that the San Francisco, California-based tech company has soured on trucking. In fact, it appears Uber is doubling down on trucking.
According to news reports, Uber Technologies is creating a standalone business out of its long-haul trucking business, Uber Freight, with plans to double its investment in the unit to drive growth ahead of a much-anticipated initial public offering.
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Freight Waves
The trucking industry has long been considered a "man's world" as the job is associated with tedious long-haul driving involving physical exertion and intense stress. The job demands are steep, even with recent regulations limiting time on the road. The hours are long and make it tough on anything like a home life.
Yet even during a time of historically-challenging capacity crunch issues, women drivers have still only marginally crept up in driving employment.
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Air Cargo World
The growth in global airfreight demand continues to slow with freight tonne kilometres increasing by 2.7 per cent in June, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) says.
The association says this continues the slowdown that began earlier in 2018, with growth for the first half of the year standing at 4.7 per cent, less than half the rate of 2017.
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Drone Delivery Canada
Drone Delivery Canada 'DDC or the Company', is pleased to announce Transport Canada has granted the Company a SFOC (Special Flight Operations Certificate) approving the Company to commence testing of its Robin X1400 cargo delivery drone in Canadian skies.
The Robin X1400 is now fully integrated with DDC's proprietary FLYTE management system and is capable of both larger payloads and greater flight ranges, of up to 60kms. Flight testing will commence in the second week of August, 2018.
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Greatlakes-Seaway Review
The St. Lawrence Seaway reported gains in traditional and project cargo for the month of June. Year-to-date, total cargo shipments for the period from March 29 through June 30 were 12.1 million metric tons, a decrease of just over 2 percent compared to 2017. Overall, dry bulk cargo was down 16.18 percent; however, ores and concentrates cargoes were up nearly 275 percent. While general cargo was down 7.05 percent, steel slabs saw a rise of 182.15 percent.
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Lloyd's Loading List
Container line schedule reliability remains at its lowest-yet level for the time of the year despite improving from its worst-ever figures during the first quarter of this year, according to analysis by SeaIntel.
"Global average schedule reliability is still the lowest it has been in any second quarter, down 2.7 percentage points compared to the second quarter of last year, which was the previous lowest second-quarter score," SeaIntel said.
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Canadian Shipper
Transport Canada announced for the transfer, as of March 30, 2020, of the ports of Matane, Gaspé, Rimouski and Gros-Cacouna to the Government of Quebec under the Port Facility Transfer Program. In addition to the commercial docks, the transfer includes buildings and storage areas, breakwaters at the Matane and Gros-Cacouna ports and a spur pier at the Port of Rimouski.
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Greatlakes-Seaway Review
An Erie, Pennsylvania, engineering company with a manufacturing legacy of more than 100 years is making history again. CMI Energy, a company that designs, engineers, procures and provides aftermarket support for Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSGs) worldwide, is behind the arrival of an 86,890-square-foot, 13,452,000-pound shipment into the Port of Erie.
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