American freight transportation index rose 0.4% in March (2026-05-19)

BTS reports increases in rail carloads, rail intermodal, trucking, and water while air freight and pipeline volumes decreased ...

Statistics Canada announced that total manufacturing sales were up 3.0% in March (2026-05-19)

Sales rose in 9 of the 21 subsectors, led by petroleum and coal products, and transportation equipment ...

U.S. ports handled 2.16 million twenty-foot equivalent units in March (2026-05-15)

That was up 0.6% year over year and up 13.6% from February, when many Asian factories were closed for Lunar New Year ...

Canadian wholesale sales rose 1.9 percent in March (2026-05-15)

Sales increased in five of the seven subsectors, representing 79.6% of total wholesale sales ...

U.S. Great Lakes limestone trade was down 27.5 percent in April (2026-05-14)

Loadings from U.S. quarries were also below the month's 5-year average by 35.4 percent ...

Canadian railway's carload traffic was down 1.4 percent in first week of May (2026-05-14)

Canadian railways reported 92,948 carloads for the week ending May 9, 2026 ...