The volume of rail freight carried in
Canada totaled 27.0 million tons in February, up 1.0 percent from the same month last year.
In February, freight originating in
Canada increased 0.2 percent from the same month last year to 24.4 million tons. Non-intermodal freight decreased 1.3 percent to 266,000 carloads in February. The amount of freight loaded into these cars totaled 21.7 million tons, down 0.3 percent from the same month last year.
Intermodal freight loadings rose 2.8 percent to 178,000 units from February 2016 to February 2017. The increase stemmed from a 2.9 percent increase in containers-on-flat-cars and a 1.0 percent gain in trailers-on-flat-cars. In terms of weight, intermodal traffic increased 4.7 percent to 2.7 million tons.
Freight traffic received from the United States rose 9.1 percent to 2.7 million tons as a result of a 10.2 percent increase in non-intermodal freight and a 3.3 percent decline in intermodal freight from the United States.