Industry News
Freight Volume Off on U.S. Railroads
November 13, 2008 | 01:05 p.m. CST
Freight volume on U.S. railroads trailed year ago totals during the week ended Nov. 8, reported the Association of American Railroads (AAR).
Carload freight for the week totaled 314,433 cars, down 8.4 percent from last year, with volume off 8.1 percent in the West and 8.7 percent in the East. Intermodal volume, which is not included in the carload data, totaled 228,632 trailers or containers, down 6.3 percent from last year. Container volume was off 4.9 percent while trailer traffic fell 11.2 percent. Total volume was estimated at 33.5 billion ton-miles, down 7.2 percent from the comparable week last year.
Sixteen of 19 carload commodity groups were down from a year ago, with waste and scrap down 40.0 percent, motor vehicles down 30.8 percent and metals dropping 30.6 percent.
Cumulative volume for the first 45 weeks of 2008 totaled 14,630,860 carloads, down 0.7 percent from 2007; 10,150,762 trailers or containers, down 3.1 percent; and total volume of an estimated 1.52 trillion ton-miles, up 0.4 percent from last year.
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