Railway Traffic Up 11% in December
OTTAWA - Feb 25/15 - SNS -- Canada's railways carried 11.5% more freight in December than they did one year earlier, according to Statistics Canada.
Total freight carried was 29 million metric tons (MT). Domestic rail freight originating in Canada and destined within Canada and other parts of the world rose 12.9% to 25.7 million. These shipments are composed of non-intermodal freight (that is, cargo moved via box cars or loaded in bulk) and intermodal freight (that is, cargo moved via containers and trailers on flat cars).
Non-intermodal freight increased 11.6% to 282,000 carloads. The amount of freight loaded into these cars totalled 23.1 million MT, up 12.8%. The rise was attributable to increased freight loadings in several commodity groupings, particularly iron ores and concentrates (up 968,000 MT) and potash (up 511,000 MT).
Intermodal freight loadings rose 12.8% to 173,000 units in December. From a tonnage perspective, traffic advanced 13.7% to 2.6 million MT. The gain stemmed primarily from an increase in containerized cargo shipments.
Traffic received from the United States rose 1.7% to 3.3 million MT. The rise was the result of an increase in non-intermodal shipments.
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