According to Statistics
Canada, the volume of rail freight carried in
Canada totaled 29.8 million tons in June, down 2.4 percent from the same month a year earlier.
Freight originating in
Canada and destined within
Canada and to other parts of the world declined 1.5 percent to 26.9 million tons. 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 decreased 0.8 percent to 295,000 carloads. The amount of freight loaded into these cars totaled 24.2 million tons, down 2.1 percent. The drop was attributable to a decrease in freight loadings in several commodity groupings, particularly coal (down 642,000 tons), fuel oils and crude petroleum (down 416,000 tons) and wheat (down 389,000 tons).
Intermodal freight loadings rose 5.2 percent to 184,000 units in June. From a tonnage perspective, traffic increased 4.4 percent to 2.8 million tons as a result of a rise in containerized cargo shipments.
Freight traffic received from the United States fell 9.7 percent to 2.9 million tons, as a result of decreases in both non-intermodal and intermodal shipments.