Intermodal Rail Volume Rises Slightly For Week
Weekly U.S. intermodal rail traffic rose 0.5% from the same period last year, the Association of American Railroads reported.
Intermodal traffic for the week ended Sept. 26 increased to 275,160 compared with the same week last year, AAR said Oct. 14 in its weekly report. The increase follows a 1.9% rise the prior week.
Rail carload volume for the week, which excludes intermodal units, dropped 5.8% year-over-year to 281,073 carloads.
Five of the 10 commodity groups AAR tracks increased for the week from the same time last year, including miscellaneous carloads at 24.4% and grain at 21.3%.
Total North American intermodal volume rose 1.2% to 351,165 units for the week. Canadian railroads moved 62,664 intermodal units, a 4.2% increase. Railroads in Mexico moved 13,341 intermodal containers, a 3.7% increase, according to AAR.
For the first 40 weeks of the year, U.S. intermodal traffic increased 2.4% to 10.7 million units from the same period in 2014.
