According to Statistics Canada, the Canadian railway industry carried 33.0 million tons of freight in June, up 3.7 percent compared with June 2018, as both domestic loadings and traffic received from the United States increased.
Compared with the same month in 2018, total intermodal and non-intermodal freight loadings in Canada increased 3.9 percent to 29.4 million tons. The non-intermodal portion of freight loadings rose 4.4 percent to 26.4 million tons, mostly on higher shipments of fuel oils and crude petroleum (+31.4 percent or +463 912 tons), wheat (+23.1 percent or +414,124 tons), iron ores and concentrates (+8.1 percent or +373,017 tons) and coal (+6.5 percent or +186,709 tons).
Partly offsetting these increases were decreases in shipments of other cereal grains (-63.9 percent or -304,720 tons), lumber (-14.6 percent or -143,294 tons) and mixed loads or unidentified freight (-93.8 percent or -102,598 tons).
Freight traffic coming from the United States rose 1.9 percent to 3.6 million tons from June 2018. Intermodal freight transported from the United States mainly contributed to the increase.