March 2025 sees record in value of US freight with Canada, Mexico: BTS

Cross border US freight shipments with Canada and Mexico totaled just over $144.8 billion in March. The total represents an 8.4 per cent year-on-year (YoY) increase and a 35-per cent increase over the 2019 figure.

Canada and Mexico regularly conduct over $1 trillion in annual freight flows among them. In 2024, US freight with Canada and Mexico combined totaled $1.6 trillion—a 1.8-per cent increase YoY.

In March this year, trucks moved $94.2 billion of freight—a 9.5-per cent YoY increase; $67.5 billion with Canada and $77.3 billion with Mexico.

Trucks carry over 60 per cent of the surface trade along the Northern and Southern land borders.

In March 2025, Laredo land port in the Mexico border in Texas state handled $30.5 billion—a 12.4-per cent growth YoY.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (DS)