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Canadian Manufacturing
Statistics Canada says the country's trade surplus narrowed in June to $136 million, as both exports and imports dropped largely due to trade decreases in crude oil, aircraft and other transportation equipment and parts.
The federal agency says exports fell 5.1 percent to $50.3 billion, offsetting a strong gain in May amid a 3.6% drop in export prices.
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Canadian Shipper
End-to-end visibility, predictive analysis, transparency, and real-time insights are some of the benefits driving the adoption and implementation of Internet of Things systems within the supply chain management market, according to the latest research from Frost & Sullivan.
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Lloyd's Loading List
Government plans to strengthen compliance with Operation Brock — the queueing system to be introduced for lorries in Kent in the event of a No Deal Brexit — will place the responsibility to travel with correct documentation on haulage businesses, despite a lack of clarity on the actual paperwork required, according to the Freight Transport Association.
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AAR
The Association of American Railroads reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending August 3, 2019, as well as volumes for July 2019.
U.S. railroads originated 1,264,100 carloads in July 2019, down 4.8 percent, or 64,406 carloads, from July 2018. U.S. railroads also originated 1,314,333 containers and trailers in July 2019, down 6.1 percent, or 84,878 units, from the same month last year. Combined U.S. carload and intermodal originations in July 2019 were 2,578,433, down 5.5 percent, or 149,284 carloads and intermodal units from July 2018.
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Canadian Shipper
The railroad industry has installed safety technology on nearly 90 percent of tracks where it is required, federal officials said, but "significant work" is needed to ensure the technology is completely installed by a December 2020 deadline.
Federal Railroad Administration chief Ronald Batory told a Senate committee that technology known as positive train control, or PTC, is in operation on more than 50,000 route miles (80,000 kilometres) of the nearly 58,000 miles (93,000 kilometres) where it is required.
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Valuepart Worldwide
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At Valuepart, we know the importance of providing you with fast availability of our quality undercarriage and repair parts inventory. This is why we maintain one of the largest North American networks of Depots and Warehouse facilities in the industry.
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Progressive Railroading
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced legislation to address safety concerns regarding crude-by-rail transportation.
The Crude Oil Advanced Tracking Act would require railroads to share crude-by-rail information with state emergency responders so they know what risks they might face when trains carry crude oil travel through their communities.
The bill also would allocate $15 million in financial assistance for local emergency preparedness measures and $25 million in to support local projects that reduce risk or add protections in communities.
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Fleet Equipment
Dana Inc. will provide its Spicer Electrified e-Propulsion solution with integrated TM4 Sumo HP motor-inverter system to power Class 8 tractor-trailer units that will move freight year-round between Edmonton and Calgary in Alberta, Canada.
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Heavy Duty Trucking
Cargo thieves took a bit of a beating in the second quarter of this year. Data from Jersey City-based CargoNet shows there was a 14 percent drop in "cargo theft events" from the same period a year ago. But what the crooks did snatch this time around still amounted to tens of millions in losses.
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Canadian Shipper
FedEx says it will no longer make ground deliveries for Amazon as the online shopping giant builds its own fleet and becomes more of a threat to delivery companies.
The announcement comes two months after FedEx terminated its air delivery contract with Amazon. FedEx said dumping Amazon is part of its plan to go after more e-commerce deliveries from other companies.
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By Matt Falcus
 Closing one of a country's busiest airports for three months in the summer might sound like a recipe for disaster, but that's exactly what's happening in Milan as Linate Airport has ceased flights to undertake essential upgrades. Linate closed on July 27 following the final departure to Palermo late the previous evening. Work has now commenced on a string of upgrades to the airport — the most notable of which is the complete resurfacing of main runway 18/36. It is expected to reopen on Oct. 27.
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IATA
he International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for global air freight markets showing that demand, measured in freight tonne kilometers (FTKs), decreased by 4.8% in June 2019, compared to the same period in 2018. This marks the eighth consecutive month of year-on-year decline in freight volumes.
Signs of a modest recovery in recent months appear to have been premature, with the June contraction broad-based across all regions with the exception of Africa.
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Air Cargo Week
Signs of a modest recovery for air cargo markets appear to have been premature, with IATA reporting another month of falling volumes.
Freight tonne kilometres decreased by 4.8 percent in June, the eighth month of year-on-year declines with only Africa seeing an increase.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says capacity growth remains subdued and load factors continue to fall.
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Air Cargo News
Hundreds of flights from Hong Kong, the world's busiest cargo airport, have been cancelled as protesters continue coordinated strikes that are bringing chaos to the city.
Pilots, flight crews and air traffic controllers are all reported to have joined city wide demonstrations.
Cathay Pacific Cargo said it does not foresee any freighter cancellations, but it expects the freighter operation to be affected by minor delays on certain flights.
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Lloyd's Loading List
Container shipping's reliability has come under increasing scrutiny from customers. However, there are signs carriers are getting their act together, with new figures showing improvements across the board.
Unreliable services have become almost a staple of the industry, with late vessel arrivals the norm, a scenario causing untold headaches for the shipper community that depend on carriers to provide a reliable service to suit supply chain needs.
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Chamber of Marine Commerce
The Canadian shipping industry welcomes today's federal government announcement to launch a competitive process to build six new icebreakers to operate in the St. Lawrence, Atlantic Canada and the Arctic.
"These new icebreakers will help ensure the long-term success of Canadian industries and communities who rely on marine shipping all year round to deliver goods to markets at home and around the world," says Bruce Burrows, President of the Chamber of Marine Commerce, which represents ship operators, ports and marine transportation customers that operate in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence, east coast and Arctic.
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Port operator PSA International announced it has completed its acquisition of the Halterm Container Terminal in the Port of Halifax.
Halterm is the only container terminal in Eastern Canada that can serve mega container vessels. It operates three container berths covering more than a kilometre of quay length with depth of up to 16 metres.
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