Railway carloadings, June 2014
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Released: 2014-08-27
The volume of rail freight carried in Canada totalled 30.6 million tonnes in June, up 14.4% from the same month last year. A key driver of this growth was increased loadings of wheat, which were influenced by new grain transportation regulations.
Domestic rail freight originating in Canada and destined within Canada and other parts of the world rose 17.2% to 27.4 million tonnes. These shipments are composed of non-intermodal freight (that is, cargo moved via box cars or loaded in bulk) and intermodal freight (that is, cargo moved via containers and trailers on flat cars).
Non-intermodal freight rose 15.3% to 298,000 carloads. The amount of freight loaded into these cars totalled 24.7 million tonnes, up 18.3%. The increase was attributable to gains in several commodity groupings, particularly wheat (up 1.2 million tonnes), canola (up 569 000 tonnes), iron ore and concentrates (up 534 000 tonnes) and potash (up 429 000 tonnes).
Intermodal freight loadings rose 8.2% to 175,000 units in June. From a tonnage perspective, traffic grew 7.9% to 2.6 million tonnes. The gain stemmed from both increased containerized cargo shipments and trailers loaded on flat cars.
Traffic received from the United States fell 4.6% to 3.2 million tonnes. The drop was attributable to decreased non-intermodal and intermodal freight.
Note to readers
Data in this release are not seasonally adjusted.
For non-intermodal traffic, rail carriers report the number of cars and tonnes by commodity of revenue-generating freight that they have loaded in Canada.
For intermodal freight, the carriers report the number of units and tonnes for containers on flat cars and trailers on flat cars, with no commodity data.
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