For this week, total US weekly rail traffic was 455,346 carloads and intermodal units, down 17.3 per cent compared with the same week last year, said the Association of American Railroads Wednesday.
Total carloads for the week ending June 4 were 224,258 carloads, down 16.6 per cent compared with the same week in 2015, while US weekly intermodal volume was 231,088 containers and trailers, down 17.9 per cent compared to 2015.
Two of the 10 carload commodity groups posted an increase compared with the same week in 2015, said AAR. They were grain, up 2.3 per cent to 18,628 carloads; and miscellaneous carloads, up 0.5 per cent to 9,008 carloads. Commodity groups that posted decreases compared with the same week in 2015 included petroleum and petroleum products, down 29.1 per cent to 9,706 carloads; coal, down 23 per cent to 68,008 carloads; and motor vehicles and parts, down 20.9 per cent to 15,411 carloads.
For the first 22 weeks of 2016, US railroads reported cumulative volume of 5,274,449 carloads, down 13.7 per cent from the same point last year; and 5,648,851 intermodal units, down 2.1 per cent from last year. Total combined US traf c for the rst 22 weeks of 2016 was 10,923,300 carloads and intermodal units, a decrease of 8.1 per cent com- pared to last year.
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North American rail volume for the week ending June 4, 2016, on 13 reporting US, Canadian, and Mexican rail- roads totaled 307,051 carloads, down 14.8 per cent compared with the same week last year, and 300,037 intermodal units, down 15.8 per cent compared with last year. Total combined weekly rail traffic in North America was 607,088 carloads and intermodal units, down 15.3 per cent. North American rail volume for the first 22 weeks of 2016 was 14,327,661 carloads and intermodal units, down 7.7 per cent com- pared with 2015.
Canadian railroads reported 66,457 carloads for the week, down 11.3 per cent, and 57,296 intermodal units, down 9.3 per cent compared with the same week in 2015. For the rst 22 weeks of 2016, Canadian railroads re- ported cumulative rail traf c volume of 2,811,071 carloads, containers and trailers, down 7.6 per cent.