Weekly Intermodal Volume Up 2.3%, AAR Reports

AAR said U.S. weekly intermodal volume was 270,952 containers and trailers. Weekly rail traffic overall was 557,612 carloads and intermodal units, down 2.5% compared with the same week last year. Total carloads for the week were 286,660, down 6.7%.

Only one of the 10 carload commodity groups — grain, up 10.9% to 22,091 carloads — posted an increase compared with the same week in 2014.

For the first 29 weeks of the year, U.S. railroads reported cumulative volume of 8,017,322 carloads, down 4.2% from the same point last year, and 7,667,449 intermodal units, up 2.6% from last year. Total combined U.S. traffic for the first 29 weeks of 2015 was 15,684,771 carloads and intermodal units, a decrease of 1% compared to last year.