According to Statistics Canada, the volume of rail freight carried in Canada totaled 28.2 million tons in November, up 2.2 percent from the same month a year earlier.
Freight originating in Canada increased 4.9 percent to 25.7 million tons. These shipments are composed of both non-intermodal and intermodal freight.
Non-intermodal freight rose 4.6 percent to 281,000 carloads. The amount of freight loaded into these cars increased 4.8 percent to 23.0 million tons. The gain reflected an increase in freight loadings of iron ores and concentrates (up 0.6 million tons), lumber (up 0.1 million tons), animal feed and products (up 0.1 million tons) and wheat (up 0.1 million tons).
Intermodal freight loadings rose 5.7 percent to 177,000 units in November. In terms of weight, intermodal traffic was up 5.4 percent to 2.7 million tons as a result of an increase in containerized cargo shipments.
Freight traffic received from the United States fell 19.5 percent to 2.5 million tons as a result of a decline in non-intermodal shipments.