Volume of Canadian rail freight edges up 0.1 percent in December

Tuesday, 28 February 2017 01:05:03 (GMT+3)   |   San Diego
       

According to Statistics Canada, the volume of rail freight carried in Canada totaled 29.1 million tons in December, up 0.1 percent from the same month in 2015.
 
In December, freight originating in Canada decreased 0.4 percent from the same month in 2015 to 26.5 million tons. Non-intermodal freight decreased 1.8 percent to 287,000 carloads in December. The amount of freight loaded into these cars totaled 23.8 million tons, down 1.3 percent from the same month in 2015.
 
Tonnages of iron ores and concentrates shipped by rail declined 3.8 percent in December on a year-over-year basis.
 
Intermodal freight loadings rose 6.7 percent to 179,000 units from December 2015 to December 2016. The increase stemmed from a 6.4 percent increase in containers-on-flat-cars and a 21.6 percent gain in trailers-on-flat-cars. In terms of weight, intermodal traffic increased 8.0 percent to 2.7 million tons.

Freight traffic received from the United States rose 5.5 percent to 2.5 million tons as a result of a 6.4 percent increase in non-intermodal freight and a 4.3 percent decline in intermodal freight from the United States.
 
For the full-year 2016, the total volume of rail freight carried in Canada reached 345.9 million tons, down 2.8 percent from the 355.7 million tons of rail freight carried in 2015.
 
By average weight shipped each month, the top five commodities in 2016 were iron ores and concentrates (4,401,000 tons), coal (2,646,000 tons), wheat (1,725,000 tons), potash (1,460,000 tons) and lumber (1,007,000 tons).


Similar articles

Canadian rail freight volume down 8.5 percent in January

25 Mar | Steel News

Canadian railway freight volume up 11.2 percent in December

22 Feb | Steel News

Canadian rail freight volume up 0.8 percent in November

25 Jan | Steel News

Canadian rail freight volume down 1.3 percent in October

18 Dec | Steel News

Canadian rail freight volume down 2.4 percent in August

24 Oct | Steel News

Canadian railway freight volume down 6.9 percent in June

22 Aug | Steel News

Canadian rail freight volume down 5 percent in May

20 Jul | Steel News

Canadian rail freight volume up 5.4 percent in March

30 May | Steel News

Canadian rail freight volume increases slightly in December, full-year 2022

24 Feb | Steel News

Canadian rail freight volume up 10.1 percent in November

25 Jan | Steel News