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US carload and container shipments decline more than 7% NEWSWIRE

By | March 18, 2020

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U.S. Rail Traffic1 Week 11, 2020 – Ended March 14, 2020 This Week Year-To-Date Cars vs 2019 Cumulative Avg/wk2 vs 2019 Total Carloads 226,039 -5.9% 2,549,159 231,742 -6.2% Chemicals 33,012 3.6% 360,417 32,765 2.9% Coal 55,542 -23.0% 716,466 65,133 -18.1% Farm Products excl. Grain, and Food 15,854 1.6% 174,000 15,818 2.0% Forest Products 9,842 -1.7% 107,399 9,764 -2.9% Grain 19,911 6.9% 217,778 19,798 -6.5% Metallic Ores and Metals 19,975 -4.7% 228,660 20,787 0.1% Motor Vehicles and Parts 19,104 6.6% 175,314 15,938 -0.4% Nonmetallic Minerals 30,254 -7.5% 316,940 28,813 -5.6% Petroleum and Petroleum Products 13,294 9.6% 145,168 13,197 5.4% Other 9,251 12.4% 107,017 9,729 6.6% Total Intermodal Units 236,978 -9.1% 2,712,444 246,586 -7.8% Total Traffic 463,017 -7.6% 5,261,603 478,328 -7.0% 1 Excludes U.S. operations of Canadian Pacific, CN and GMXT. 2 Average per week figures may not sum to totals as a result of independent rounding.

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