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News & Reviews News Wire AAR: US railroad intermodal traffic dives more than 14 percent for the week ended March 7 NEWSWIRE

AAR: US railroad intermodal traffic dives more than 14 percent for the week ended March 7 NEWSWIRE

By | March 11, 2020

Coronavirus-related intermodal declines may be affecting US rail traffic

U.S. Rail Traffic1 Week 10, 2020 – Ended March 7, 2020 This Week Year-To-Date Cars vs 2019 Cumulative Avg/wk2 vs 2019 Total Carloads 229,742 -3.5% 2,323,120 232,312 -6.2% Chemicals 33,419 6.5% 327,405 32,741 2.9% Coal 58,659 -23.4% 660,924 66,092 -17.6% Farm Products excl. Grain, and Food 16,404 6.0% 158,146 15,815 2.0% Forest Products 9,839 2.5% 97,557 9,756 -3.0% Grain 20,863 9.0% 197,867 19,787 -7.7% Metallic Ores and Metals 19,672 -1.0% 208,685 20,869 0.6% Motor Vehicles and Parts 18,149 8.1% 156,210 15,621 -1.2% Nonmetallic Minerals 30,385 0.5% 286,686 28,669 -5.4% Petroleum and Petroleum Products 12,641 18.6% 131,874 13,187 4.9% Other 9,711 16.8% 97,766 9,777 6.1% Total Intermodal Units 232,561 -14.1% 2,475,466 247,547 -7.7% Total Traffic 462,303 -9.1% 4,798,586 479,859 -7.0%

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