According to the United States' National Retail Federation's (NRF) monthly Global Port Tracker, imports at the country's major retail container ports have dipped since peaks seen last fall but remain at higher-than-usual levels as a possible increase in tariffs on...
18 February 2019
Categories: Freight News
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reports that U.S. railroads originated 1,238,487 carloads in January 2019, up 1.7 percent, or 21,054 carloads, from January 2018. U.S. railroads also originated 1,316,168 containers and trailers in January 2019, up 0.5 percent, or...
18 February 2019
Categories: Freight News
The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority announced that it cancelled, on January 30, 2019, project permit No. 2012-072-01, previously issued to Fraser Surrey Docks LP (FSD) to develop a direct transfer coal facility at FSD.
18 February 2019
Categories: Freight News
Closely following an announcement on February 5 that Maersk will introduce a Congestion Fee Destination (CFD) for all cargo discharging at Montreal, effective February 8 for non-regulated countries and March 6 for regulated countries, CIFFA received a February 8th notice...
18 February 2019
Categories: News
Global Affairs Canada announced that the Amending Agreements to the Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA) entered into force on February 5th, 2019. These Amending Agreements modernize the existing CCFTA in order to better support an open and inclusive rules-based trading...
18 February 2019
Categories: Canadian Custom Brokerage
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