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Materials Management & Distribution
American imports into Canada could fall by $3.3 billion under the recently rebooted Trans-Pacific Partnership, the federal government has concluded, sparking fears the new pact could hurt the ongoing NAFTA renegotiation.
The text of the 11-country Pacific Rim trade deal — a pact President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of last year — was released recently, but a Global Affairs Canada analysis of the deal also delves into the impact on the North American Free Trade Agreement talks, which are to resume in five days in Mexico City.
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Transportation Safety Board of Canada
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) released its preliminary transportation occurrence statistics for 2017. The TSB, Transport Canada, the transportation industry, as well as many other organizations and researchers, use these statistics on reportable occurrences in the air, marine, railway and pipeline modes of transportation for the identification and analysis of trends.
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CBC News
Grain shippers and producers are raising concerns about a growing backlog of rail shipments that they say is leading to lost sales and unreliable exports.
The Ag Transport Coalition that represents several grain associations says that car order fulfilments from Canada's two major railways was 38 per cent during the week of Feb. 12.
The coalition says Canadian National Railway Co. delivered 17 per cent of the rail cars that grain shippers ordered, while Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. delivered 66 per cent.
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National Post
Via Rail is finally getting funding to replace its aging fleet on the Quebec City to Windsor line, but will have to keep waiting for a decision on whether those trains will get their own dedicated tracks through the clogged rail corridor.
A recent federal budget gives approval for procuring a new Via fleet, something the company has been requesting for years. Via's current fleet of locomotives and passenger cars is 40 years old on average, and has been stretched beyond its normal life expectancy.
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Materials Management & Distribution
Canada's two largest railways vowed to improve their service levels over the coming months as they escape the grip of a tough winter that hampered their ability to transport goods.
During separate presentations to a transportation conference, Canadian National Railway chief financial officer Ghislain Houle and CP Rail chief executive Keith Creel told investors that heavy snow in Western Canada and frigid temperatures had a big impact, especially compared to last year's milder conditions.
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Truck News
Like the recent mandate in the U.S., Canada is working on its own ELD rule, and for the most part is looking to mirror the legislation of their southern neighbors.
Geoffrey Wood, senior vice-president of policy for the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA), provided an update on the Canadian proposed ELD mandate during an Omnitracs Outlook 2018 session today in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Trucks
When we think about the advancement of self-driving vehicles it should start with trucking, freight and logistics.
Trucks move about $700 billion of cargo in the U.S. annually, which amounts to about 70 percent of the nation's freight by weight. In the near term, that's why the economic case for driverless technology is so much greater for commercial vehicles.
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By Matt Falcus
 Aviation in the United Arab Emirates focuses on the huge hubs of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, with the new Dubai World Central set to take center stage in the near future. But Air Arabia brought new fortunes to Sharjah Airport in 2003 when it opened its headquarters there, linking cities all around the Middle East as an alternative to the dominance of Emirates Airline out of Dubai. The stimulus of having such a fast-growing airline based at Sharjah has led to a growing airport.
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The Globe & Mail
The signing of two major trade deals with global trading partners will help send Canada's growth in imports and exports by container surging past that of the United States, marine shipper Maersk Line says.
As free-trade talks with the United States and Mexico drag on, Canada launched a trade agreement with Europe in September and is set to sign a deal in March to join an 11-country trading bloc that includes Japan, Chile and Malaysia.
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The Handy Shipping Guide
One assumes that there is not a single freight forwarding agent or logistics outfit in the western world that remains unaware that there are sanctions in place when it comes to trading with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Ranging from any cargo suspected of having military purposes, to crude oil and refined petroleum product imports along with textile exports, the 193 member states of the United Nations have all (theoretically) abided by the proscribing of certain trade goods.
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