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Canadian railways recorded their largest monthly increase in freight in more than five years in March, thanks to bigger loads of coal, wheat, potash, lumber and canola. Railways loaded a total 24.7 million metric tonnes, a gain of 3.8 million tonnes, or 18%, from February. This was the largest monthly increase since January 1999. Non-intermodal freight totalled 22.4 million tonnes, an 18.5% increase from February. This freight load occupied 286,000 carloads. All commodities except gaseous hydrocarbons incurred large increases. The top five commodity groupings by metric tonnes and number of rail cars, March 2004
These top five groups of commodities accounted for 44% of the March tonnage and 37% of the total car loadings. The intermodal portion, that is containers and trailers hauled on flat cars, also showed an important increase up 13.7%. Loadings totalled 2.3 million tonnes in March, and accounted for 9.3% of the total tonnage. Freight coming from the United States, either destined for or passing through Canada, reached 2.9 million tonnes, a 14% increase from February. On a year-over-year basis, non-intermodal tonnage for March was up 16.1% from March last year. Intermodal traffic was up 6.2%, while traffic received from the United States rose 4.5%. The year over year figures include an increase in coverage. On a quarterly basis, the cumulative total for non intermodal loadings went from 54.6 million tones in 2003 to 60 million tones in 2004, up 9.9%. Intermodal loadings totalled 6.4 million tonnes, up 4.9%, while traffic received from the United States and destined for Canada reached 8.1 million tonnes, up 4.3% from the first three months of 2003. |
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