Mark Szakonyi, Associate Editor | Jul 16, 2012 12:05PM EDT
Intermodal shipments on major U.S. railroads in the week ending July 7 rose 5.6 percent year-over-year but fell 1.2 percent from the prior week, according to the Association of American Railroads.
Carload traffic fell 1 percent year-over-year and 1.3 percent from the previous week. Shipments of farm products, nonmetallic minerals, primary forest products, and iron and steel scrap fell on a double-digit basis from the same period a year ago, while coal traffic slipped 4.1 percent in the same period.
For the first 27 weeks of 2012, intermodal traffic rose 3.4 percent; carload traffic fell 2.8 percent in the same period.
Canadian intermodal volume in the week ending July 7 rose 2.1 percent year-over-year, and carload volume rose 2.4 percent in the same period. So far this year, Canadian intermodal volume is up 7.2 percent year-over-year, and carload traffic is up 3.4 percent.
Mexican intermodal volume last week jumped 3 percent year-over-year, and carload traffic rose 10.3 percent in the same period. In the first 27 weeks of 2012, intermodal traffic rose 18.4 percent from the same period in 2011, but carload volume fell 1.8 percent.
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