U.S. rail carload and intermodal volumes see annual declines, for the week ending October 22

United States rail carload and intermodal volume, for the week ending October 22, saw annual declines, according to data issued this week by the Association of American Railroads (AAR).

Rail carloads—at 237,456—were off 0.7% annually, topping the weeks ending October 8 and October 15, at 232,930 and 237,263, respectively.

AAR报道,5的10所载的货物商品groups it tracks saw annual gains including: coal, up 3,282 carloads, to 68,889; motor vehicles and parts, up 1,271 carloads, to 14,671; and nonmetallic minerals, up 1,078 carloads, to 32,565. Commodity groups seeing annual declines included: metallic ores and metals, down 3,510 carloads, to 19,673; grain, down 1,853 carloads, to 24,053; and miscellaneous carloads, down 1,535 carloads, to 9,502.

Intermodal containers and trailers, for the week ending October 22, fell 1.4% annually to 267,866 units, topping the weeks ending October 8 and October 15, at 261,483 and 263,041, respectively.

Through the first 42 weeks of 2022, AAR reported that U.S. rail carloads—at 9,726,951—are up 0.1% annually, and intermodal units—at 11,051,944—are off 4.9% annually.

North American rail volume for the week ending October 22, 2022, on 12 reporting U.S., Canadian and Mexican railroads totaled 345,255 carloads, up 1.5% compared with the same week last year, and 354,282 intermodal units, down 1.3% compared with last year. Total combined weekly rail traffic in North America was 699,537 carloads and intermodal units, up 0%. North American rail volume for the first 42 weeks of 2022 was 28,486,912 carloads and intermodal units, down 2.1% compared with 2021.