Canada

IBM announces a $730 million investment in its Bromont, Quebec semiconductor facility, aiming to boost its packaging and testing capabilities.

Take a closer look at the Top 15 trade partners for the United States, and why Mexico continues to dominate the top spot.

Over 9,000 Canadian rail workers may strike on May 22, threatening major disruptions across national supply chains.

Set to go into effect on Jan. 1, legislation is designed to ensure products are sourced ethically.

A Canadian supply chain law set to take effect Jan. 1, 2024, will place the responsibility on brands, retailers, and importers to identify and prevent child and forced labor within their supplier networks.

The rapid development of electric and autonomous vehicles will arm trucking with competitive tools and advantages that they’ve not seen in quite some time.

FR8Focus is a new mobile application on the market that proves to be the next step in visual, real-time digitization of freight and asset tracking for North American carriers.

Ever-shifting Customs regulations are causing shippers to stay on their toes. Our experts suggest partnering with experienced north-south carriers and Customs brokers in order to execute seamless cross-border moves in 2022.

A labor standstill, with repercussions for the North American supply chain is underway in Canada, starting Sunday morning, as Calgary-based Class I railroad Canada Pacific Railway Limited (CP) and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) have not made significant headway to settle their differences. The TCRC has 16,000 Canadian-members in rail transportation and represents approximately 3,000 locomotive engineers, conductors, train and yard workers across Canada.

Rail carloads—at 238,870—headed up 2.8% annually, and intermodal units—at 266,307—decreased 5.8% annually.

The last thing most Americans want imported from Canada is the noise, chaos and tension associated with a two-week trucker protest that occurred in Ottawa and on key border crossings. But that appears to be what’s heading to Washington, D.C.

A COVID-19 vaccine mandate imposed by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for cross-border truckers that took effect on Jan. 15 is having little impact on trucking capacity between the two nations. The Canadian Trucking Alliance has estimated that 85% of Canada’s 120,000 truckers were vaccinated. Earlier, Canadian truck drivers and other “essential” workers had been exempt from Canada’s two-week quarantine for unvaccinated travelers crossing between the two countries.

Plans for this facility were initially introduced by DHL in November 2019, and the company said that this new facility, which it invested $100 million (CAD) into, represents the largest DHL Express Canadian-based gateway by volume, at 238,000 square-feet, four times larger than the previous facility that is also at Hamilton International Airport.

Earlier this week, San Francisco-based Uber Freight a subsidiary of the ubiquitous, ride-sharing service Uber, whose proprietary app matches trucking companies with loads to haul, announced it has rolled out a new self-service Shipper Platform north of the border in Canada.

Correcting Errors in U.S. Customs Entry Filings," details those options, and also sheds light on how a shipper can avoid making a mistake in the first place.