TRUCKING STATISTICS * USA & Canada - 6.2 Million Trucks Cross Eastern US-Canada Border

Cross-border trade grew at a healthy pace in 2010, say bridge operators

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Michigan,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by R.G. Edmonson -Dec 14, 2010:  --  A total of 6.2 million trucks crossed the eastern U.S.-Canada border so far in 2010, with growth across all 10 bridges...  Traffic including passenger vehicles grew 5.7 percent year to date compared with 2009, according to the Public Border Operators Association, a trade group of bridge and tunnel operators in Michigan and New York. Some 32.5 million vehicles crossed the border at 10 bridges and one tunnel since the beginning of 2010...  The three principal crossings for international trade all showed year-to-date increases. Some 2.1 million trucks crossed the Ambassador Bridge at Detroit, a 17.8 percent increase. The Blue Water Bridge at Port Huron, Mich., tallied 1.3 million trucks, a 9 percent increase. The Peace Bridge at Buffalo, N.Y., carried 1.1 million trucks, a 10.4 percent increase over the same period in 2009...  A total for 60,029 trucks, buses and miscellaneous vehicles so far this year have crossed the Seaway International Bridge between Massena, N.Y., and Cromwell, Ont., a 21.1 percent increase over 2009. Truck traffic was virtually flat at the Lewiston-Queenstown Bridge near Niagara Falls with 626,358 trucks crossing since the first of the year...  The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel was the only site to show a year-to-date decline with 51,871 trucks, down 2 percent from 2009...

* USA - Cass Freight Index:  November’s freight expenditures and shipments both increased from the previous month’s activity

Bridgeton,MO,USA -Cass Information System Inc. -15 Dec 2010: -- Monthly year-over-year and month-to-month percent change in Cass Freight Index for freight expenditures...  The November index was up 24.6 percent year-over-year and 42.5 percent higher than the April 2009 index nadir. However, the velocity of year-over-year growth has slowed in this measure of U.S. spending for the third consecutive month... CIS have developed a monthly Volume Index of Freight Expenditures and Shipments that is based upon transportation dollars and shipments of Cass clients. The index is comprised of shippers throughout the United States who participate in the Cass Information Systems Payment Service. Over 1,200 divisions of 400 unique companies representing a broad spectrum of the SIC categories contribute data to the index. Freight expenses, for the index base, consist of participating shippers with volumes ranging from $50,000 to over $500,000,000 annually. This diversity of shippers and range of volume provides a statistically valid cross-sampling of industries in the United States...

* USA  / DC - November 2010. Producer Price Index Report

Washington,DC,USA -Bloomberg, by Kristy Scheuble - Dec 14, 2010: -- The following is the text of the U.S. producer price report for Nov. released by the Labor Department... Transportation and warehousing industries: The Producer Price Index for the Net Output of Transportation and Warehousing Industries moved up 0.2 percent in November following a 1.2- percent increase in the prior month. The main factor in the November advance was a 1.6-percent rise in prices received by the long-distance general freight trucking industry group. The industry indexes for deep sea freight transportation and for used household and office goods moving also contributed to the increase in prices received by transportation and warehousing industries...