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Detroit and Laredo were Top 2006 Ports for Trade by Truck
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BTS 25-07
Dave Smallen
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - Detroit
on the Canadian border and Laredo, TX,
on the Mexican border were the top ports for the value of trade moved by truck in
2006, according to a new special report on North American freight transportation
from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
BTS, a part
of the U.S. Department of Transportation's Research and Innovative Technology
Administration, reported that Detroit
was the gateway for $64 billion in merchandise carried by truck to Canada and $51 billion from Canada . The merchandise transported through Detroit
in 2006 was almost double the value of the goods that passed through Buffalo-Niagara
Falls, NY, the next-ranking
port on the Canadian border. Port
Huron, MI, was the third-ranking
port.
On the
Mexican border, $34 billion in merchandise was exported and $44 billion was
imported through Laredo by truck,
almost double the value of the goods that passed through El
Paso, TX, the next-ranking port
on the Mexican border. Otay
Mesa, CA, was the third-ranking
port.
Other findings of the BTS report:
- The
leading ports handle the majority of the transborder freight and serve as
national gateways. In 2006, the top
10 ports on the northern border handled 92 percent of the truck freight
crossing to and from Canada . The top 10 ports on the southern border
handled 97 percent of the truck freight crossing to and from Mexico .
- Trucks
remain the dominant mode for transporting U.S.-North American freight,
carrying $534 billion, or 62 percent, of the total value in 2006.
- Ranked
by value, motor vehicles and parts was the leading commodity group
transported by all modes between the United
States and our NAFTA partners in 2006.
The special report on North
American freight transportation provides analysis of recent activity and trends
in U.S. merchandise trade with Canada and Mexico from
a transportation perspective. It is
available at http://www.bts.gov/publications/bts_special_report/2007_05/ The report uses BTS Transborder Freight
Data, released monthly on the BTS website at http://www.bts.gov/transborder/ For press releases on monthly TransBorder
data, see http://www.bts.gov/press_releases/north_american_surface_freight_data.html.
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