Rail Freight Handle Down in August
OTTAWA - Oct 28/15 - SNS -- Canada's railways hauled 28.0 million metric tons (MT) of freight in August, down 5.0% from the same month last year, reports Statistics Canada.
Freight originating in Canada decreased by 4.9% to 24.8 million MT. These shipments are composed of both intermodal and non-intermodal freight.
Non-intermodal freight decreased 5.1% to 270,000 carloads. The amount of freight loaded into these cars totalled 22.0 million MT, down 5.7%. The drop reflects a decrease in freight loadings of wheat (down 0.8 million MT), iron ore and concentrates (down 0.5 million MT) and coal (down 0.3 million MT).
Intermodal freight loadings rose by 1.5% to 192,000 units in August. In terms of weight, intermodal traffic grew 1.7% to 2.8 million MT as a result of an increase in containerized cargo shipments.
Freight traffic received from the United States fell 6.3% to 3.2 million MT as a result of a decrease in both non-intermodal and intermodal shipments.
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