Intermodal Rail Traffic Drops 13.3% for Week
Weekly U.S. intermodal rail traffic dropped 13.3% from the same period last year, the Association of American Railroads reported.
Intermodal traffic for the week ended Sept. 12 declined to 241,837, the lowest level since Feb. 28, compared with the same week last year, AAR said Sept. 16 in its weekly report. The decline follows a 17% rise the prior week.
Rail carload volume for the week, which excludes intermodal units, dropped 10.5% year-over-year to 268,960 carloads.
The only commodity group of the 10 tracked by AAR to post an increase was grain, at 3.6%.
Total North American intermodal volume dropped 12% to 310,915 units for the week.
Canadian railroads moved 55,896 intermodal units, a 10.2% decline. Railroads in Mexico moved 13,182 intermodal containers, an 8.9% rise, according to AAR.
For the first 35 weeks of the year, U.S. intermodal traffic increased 2.5% to 9.57 million units from the same period in 2014.
Data by Association of American Railroads
