Intermodal Rail Traffic Declines for Third Consecutive Week
Weekly U.S. intermodal rail traffic declined for the third consecutive week from the same period last year, according to the Association of American Railroads.
Intermodal traffic for the week ended Nov. 7 declined 1.6% to 267,102 units compared with the same week last year, AAR said Nov. 11 in its weekly report. The dip follows a 3.4% decline the prior week.
Rail carload volume for the week, which excludes intermodal units, dropped 8.7% year-over-year to 272,063 carloads.
Four of the 10 commodity groups AAR tracks increased for the week from the same time last year, led by miscellaneous carloads at 24.1%.
Total North American intermodal volume increased 0.4% to 337,479 units for the week. Canadian railroads moved 59,914 intermodal units, a 10% increase. Railroads in Mexico moved 10,463 intermodal containers, a 0.6% rise, according to AAR.
For the first 44 weeks of the year, U.S. intermodal traffic increased 2% to 11.77 million units from the same period in 2014.
