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In February, Canadian railways loaded a total 20.8 million metric tonnes, up 338 000 tonnes, or 1.7% from January 2004. The non-intermodal freight totalled 240,000 carloads and 18.8 million tonnes, a 2.2% rise from January 2004. Coal loadings had the largest impact with a gain of almost half a million tonnes. The top five commodity groupings by metric tonnes and number of rail cars, February 2004
These top five groups of commodities accounted for 44% of the February tonnage and 38% of the total car loadings. The intermodal portion, that is containers and trailers hauled on flat cars, totalled 2.0 million tonnes in February, a 2.8% drop from January. February’s intermodal loadings make up 8.6% of the total tonnage. Freight coming from the United States either destined for or passing through Canada also dropped slightly in February, reaching 2.6 million tonnes, a 0.4% decline over January. On a year-over-year basis, February 2004 figures show an 8.9% increase of non-intermodal tonnage from February last year, as well as a 5.3% increase for intermodal traffic and a 5.7% increase for traffic received from the United States. For the first two months of 2004 the cumulative total for non intermodal loadings went up 5.2%, from 35.3 million tonnes in 2003 to 37.2 million tonnes in 2004. Intermodal loadings and traffic received from the US showed a similar trend with a 4% increase for intermodal loadings and a 5% increase for US traffic destined for Canada. |
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