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The Canadian railway industry loaded 23.5 million metric tonnes in September, down 1.4% from September 2007.
Both non-intermodal and intermodal transportation systems experienced decreased activity for the month.
Non-intermodal loadings fell 1.5% from September 2007 to 21.1 million metric tonnes. Although less than half of the 64 commodity classifications declined during the month, the drop was heavily influenced by reduced loadings of other cereal grains, potash, coal, iron ore and concentrates, and lumber. These five commodity groups represent about 40% of the total non-intermodal loadings.
The drop in non-intermodal loadings also marks the lowest amount of loadings for the month of September since 2004.
Intermodal loadings fell 0.3% to 2.4 million metric tonnes from September 2007, as a result of decreased containerized cargo shipments.
Rail freight traffic coming from the United States increased to 3.1 million metric tonnes, up 11.0% compared with the same period last year.
Available on CANSIM: table 404-0002.
Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 2732.
The September 2008 issue of Monthly Railway Carloadings, Vol. 85, no. 9 (52-001-XWE, free), is now available from the Publications module of our website.
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