Highlights
- In July 2003, loadings on Canadian railways (excluding intermodal
loadings) totalled 247,000 rail cars and 19.8 million metric tonnes,
a 2.4% increase in tonnage from July 2002. Tonnage increased 7.4% from
June to July 2003 due to increases in wheat, coal, and iron ores and
concentrates which more than offset decreases in sulphur, alumina and
automobiles and mini-vans.
The top five commodity groupings, metric tonnes and rail
cars
| Commodity Grouping |
Millions of tonnes |
|
Commodity Grouping |
Thousands of rail cars |
| |
|
|
|
|
| Iron ores and concentrates |
3.4 |
|
Iron ores and concentrates |
36.6 |
| Coal |
2.6 |
|
Coal |
25.6 |
| Wheat |
1.5 |
|
Wheat |
16.4 |
| Lumber |
1.1 |
|
Lumber |
13.7 |
| Potash |
1.1 |
|
Potash |
11.6 |
These top five groups of commodities accounted for 48.5% of the July
tonnage and for 42.1% of the car loadings.
- The cumulative tonnage of commodities loaded (excluding
intermodal loadings) in the first seven months of 2003 reached 132.5
million metric tonnes, compared to 141 million tonnes in 2002.
- Loadings for intermodal traffic, that is "containers-on-flat-cars" (C.O.F.C.)
and "trailers-on-flat-cars" (T.O.F.C.), increased 6% from
the same period of 2002. Approximately 2.3 million metric tonnes
of intermodal cargo were loaded in July 2003, up 1.8% from June.
- Loadings originating from the United States reached 2.4
million metric tonnes, down 4.3% from June. The cumulative total
calculated for the first seven months of 2003 amounted to 17.6 million
metric tonnes.
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