March 2025 marked a record all-time high in the monthly dollar value of freight moved by multiple modes of transportation in US freight with Canada and Mexico, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS) TransBorder freight data programme.
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.