Weekly Intermodal Rail Traffic Drops 1.7%
Weekly U.S. intermodal rail traffic dropped 1.7% from the same period last year, the Association of American Railroads reported.
Intermodal traffic for the week ended Nov. 21 declined to 264,702 units compared with the same week last year, AAR said Nov. 25 in its weekly report.
Rail carload volume for the week, which excludes intermodal units, dropped 9.4% year-over-year to 267,830 carloads.
Four of the 10 commodity groups tracked by AAR posted an increase, leading with miscellaneous carloads at 12.3%.
Total North American intermodal volume dropped 0.7% to 357,318 units for the week.
Canadian railroads moved 58,280 intermodal units, a 2.3% rise. Railroads in Mexico moved 11,378 intermodal containers, an 8.6% rise, according to AAR.
For the first 46 weeks of the year, U.S. intermodal traffic increased 1.9% to 12.3 million units from the same period in 2014.
