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Port Saint John celebrates strong 2025 container throughput (2026-03-05) Port Saint John is recording a banner year for container operations at the growing global gateway. More...
Number of flights in and out of Canadian airports were down 7.8% in December (2026-03-05) Statistics Canada reports that aircraft movements at the country's airports totalled 324,103 in December. More...
Asia Pacific Airlines international air cargo demand rose by 5.9% in January (2026-03-04) The region's airlines also carried a total of 35.5 million international passengers in January, up 3.6%. More...
Ship slowdown off B.C.'s coast begins early to better protect endangered whales (2026-03-03) This year marks the tenth season the marine transportation industry has participated in the ECHO Program. More...
North American transborder freight increased 1.2% in December (2026-03-03) Freight between the U.S. and Canada was down 6.2% from October 2024 and freight between the U.S. and Mexico was up 4.7%. More...
Ports of Seattle and Tacoma total container volume was down 13.9% in January (2026-03-02) The Northwest Seaport Alliance reports full imports decreased 16% and full exports were flat. More...
Canada's gross domestic product rose 0.2% in December (2026-03-02) Statistics Canada reports increases in both services-producing and goods-producing industries. More...
February 2026
American truck freight tonnage increased slightly in January (2026-02-27) U.S. truck freight tonnage increased 0.4% after falling 0.2% in December according to the American Trucking Associations. More...
Canadian railways total freight volume was down 2.0% in December (2026-02-27) Decline was mainly due to fewer shipments of iron ores and coal. More...
Container carriers schedule reliability dropped a little in January (2026-02-26) Sea-Intelligence says global industry schedule reliability dropped by -0.4 percentage points. More...
Canadian shippers total ground transportation cost increased in December (2026-02-26) Canadian General Freight Index shows both base rates and fuel surcharges were up in December. More...
North American intermodal freight volumes fell 2.0% in the fourth quarter of 2025 (2026-02-25) Domestic container originations grew 2.2%, international containers declined 4.7%, and trailers dropped 23.1%. More...
IMO pushes plans to achieve zero plastic pollution from ships by 2030 (2026-02-24) IMO issues a draft updated strategy and action plan to tackle plastic pollution from ships, including fishing vessels. More...
Port Milwaukee traffic grew across key commodities & new vessel traffic in 2025 (2026-02-24) Dry bulk, Port Milwaukee's largest commodity category, experienced a 6% increase year over year. More...
Port of Los Angeles January cargo decreased by 12% in January (2026-02-23) January loaded imports came in at 421,594 TEUs, 13% less than last year. Loaded exports landed at 104,297 TEUs, an 8% drop. More...
St. Lawrence Seaway announces opening & closing dates of the 2026 navigation season (2026-02-23) Ship transits will be subject to weather and ice conditions. Restrictions may apply in some areas, More...
Port of Valencia's container volume was down 3.93% in January (2026-02-20) Valenciaport's first month of the year closed with 403,730 containers processed. More...
North American intermodal freight volumes fell 2.0 % in the fourth quarter of 2025 (2026-02-19) Domestic container originations grew 2.2 %, international containers declined 4.7 %, and trailers dropped 23.1 percent. More...
Canadian wholesale sales increased 2.0 percent in December (2026-02-19) Statistics Canada announced that sales rose in four of seven subsectors, representing about two-thirds of the wholesale sector. More...
List of top 100 truck bottlenecks released by U.S. research institute (2026-02-18) American Transportation Research Institute's annual list of most congested bottlenecks for trucks in the United States. More...
Statistics Canada announced that December manufacturing sales increased 0.6% (2026-02-18) Higher sales of motor vehicles and food products contributed the most to the increase. More...
U.S. ports handled 1.99 million twenty-foot equivalent units in December (2026-02-17) NRF reports numbers were down 1.7% from November and down 6.6% year over year. More...
U.S. airlines carried 78.4 million scheduled service passengers in November (2026-02-13) BTS reported 65.4 million domestic passengers and 9.4 million international passengers on U.S. airlines flights in November. More...
Port of New York and New Jersey ends 2025 as the second-busiest port for loaded containers in the U.S. (2026-02-12) Yearly totals for rail and exports grew, while the yearly numbers for total volume and imports held steady. More...
CPKC breaks January monthly Canadian grain tonnage and carload record (2026-02-12) Through the first 26 weeks of the 2025-2026 crop year, CPKC shipped more than 15.1 MMT of grain and grain products. More...
Port of Baltimore handled 2,223 cargo vessel visits in 2025 (2026-02-11) The previous record of 2,137 ships was set in 2023. The 2025 total represents a 21% increase over 2024. More...
St. Lawrence Seaway announces 2026 increase of tariffs (2026-02-11) A 2.5% increase of tolls and wharfage & storage charges for the upcoming navigation season. More...
Port Houston records 3 percent tonnage expansion in 2025 (2026-02-10) The Port handled 54,491,066 tons of cargo in what was the most successful year in the Port's history. More...
U.S. truck-rail freight transportation services index rose 0.2% in December (2026-02-10) The TSI measures the amount of freight carried by the freight railroads and for-hire truckers. More...
U.S. railroads total rail traffic was down 15.5 percent in the last week of January (2026-02-08) Total carloads for the week were down 14.0% compared with 2025, while intermodal volume was down 16.6%. More...
Hapag-Lloyd and Maersk to transit through the Red Sea with one Gemini service (2026-02-06) The highest security precautions will be undertaken for the safety of the crew, the vessels, and customers' cargo. More...
CN announced its second-best January on record for grain movement (2026-02-06) The railway moved over 2.72 million metric tonnes of grain from Western Canada. More...
U.S.-flag Great Lakes freighters saw an 8.9 percent tonnage decrease in 2025 (2026-02-05) Except for salt shipments, which increased by 4.1 percent, all commodity shipments decreased in 2025. More...
Canadian railway's carload traffic down 3.1 percent in week ending January 31 (2026-02-05) Canadian railways reported 87,405 carloads for the week, down 3.1%, and 60,594 intermodal units, down 15.0%. More...
Global air passenger demand increased 5.3 percent in 2025 (2026-02-04) International demand in 2025 increased 7.1% compared to 2024 and domestic demand for 2025 rose 2.4%. More...
Port of Corpus Christi total tonnage dropped a little in 2025 (2026-02-04) The Port moved 203.4 million tons through the Corpus Christi Ship Channel in 2025. More...
Ports of Seattle and Tacoma overall volumes were down 5.5% in 2025 (2026-02-03) The Northwest Seaport Alliance reports full imports and exports decline 10.3% and 4.9% respectively. More...
Number of flights in and out of Canadian airports were up 1.2% in November (2026-02-03) Statistics Canada reports that aircraft movements at the country's airports totalled 421,221 in November. More...
Asia Pacific Airlines recorded solid passenger and cargo traffic growth in 2025 (2026-02-02) Asia Pacific airlines recorded a 5.6 percent increase in international air cargo demand. More...
Canada's gross domestic product was essentially unchanged in November (2026-02-02) Statistics Canada reports that contractions in goods-producing industries offset expansions in services-producing industries. More...