Border Quick Facts (2009)
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Length of border: 8,891 km / 5,525 miles
(land and water)
- Vehicular land ports of entry: 119 U.S. and 120 Cdn.
ports*
- Road crossings: 24 bridges and 1 tunnel
- Rail crossings: 6 bridges and 3 tunnels
- Trucks crossing the border each day: 26,767
- Trusted traveller and shipper locations: 17 NEXUS and 19
FAST locations
- Cars and other vehicles crossing the border each day:
129,151
- Travellers per year by road: 52 million
- Total Canada-U.S. trade: $456 billion CDN / $441 billion USD
- Daily road trade: $740 million CDN / $716 million USD
- Daily rail trade: $238 million CDN / $230 million USD
*Some Canadian and U.S. port-of-entry locations are only one-way
and result in an unequal number of road crossings. |