Railroad shipping: AAR says traffic on the tracks down yearly, but up from last week
Staff -- Logistics Management, 7/27/2007
WASHINGTON—Carload freight and intermodal traffic on United States railroads were both down for the week ending July 21 compared to the same week last year, but up from last week, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported this week.The AAR said that intermodal volume totaled 239,286 trailers or containers for the week ending July 21, which was down 3.2 percent from the corresponding week in 2006. Like last week, intermodal container volume was flat year over year, and intermodal trailer volume was down 13.8 percent.
And carload freight, which does not include intermodal data, came in at 321,232 cars for the week, were down 2.2 from last year, said the AAR, but were up 3.4 percent from last week. Carload loadings were down 4.1 percent in the East and 6.5 percent in the West, and the AAR said weather-related problems are still affecting railroad volumes and performance in certain areas of the U.S.
Of the 19 carload commodity groups tracked by the AAR, 12 were down from last year, with farm products down 29.2 percent, and lumber & wood products down 14.0 percent. Metallic ores were up 8.2 percent, and motor vehicles were up 7.4 percent.
The AAR said that cumulative volume for the first 29 weeks of 2007 totaled 9,346,283 carloads, which was down 4.1 percent from 2006. Trailers or containers were down at 1.4 percent at 6,622,802, and the total volume of an estimated 953.4 billion ton-miles was down 2.8 percent.
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