{"id":5898,"date":"2022-11-01T15:50:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T15:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/?p=5898"},"modified":"2022-11-01T15:50:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T15:50:35","slug":"canadian-railways-total-freight-volume-was-up-2-4-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/canadian-railways-total-freight-volume-was-up-2-4-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian railways&#8217; total freight volume was up 2.4% in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics Canada reports that the volume of cargo carried by Canadian railways reached 31.0 million tonnes in August, up 2.4% from August 2021 levels, marking the fourth consecutive month of year-over-year increase.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Agency notes that the overall freight volume was just under the five-year average of 31.4 million tonnes for the month. Higher carloadings of certain energy products as well as some other commodities more than offset a sharp year-over-year drop in fuel oils and crude petroleum as well as ongoing declines in grain.<\/p>\n<p>August&#8217;s total tonnage increase in freight carried reflected higher volumes across all types of rail operations.<\/p>\n<p>Non-intermodal rail freight increased for the fourth consecutive month in August, up 2.7% year over year to 24.0 million tonnes, led by large increases in carloadings of some energy-based products.<\/p>\n<p>Intermodal shipments-mainly containers-originating in Canada increased for the second consecutive month, edging up 2.3% year over year to 3.3 million tonnes, the highest volume ever recorded for the month.<\/p>\n<p>Loadings from American railways edged up 0.5% to 3.8 million tonnes in August compared with the same month a year earlier, the third highest traffic level on record for the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics Canada reports that the volume of cargo carried by Canadian railways reached 31.0 million tonnes in August, up 2.4% from August 2021 levels, marking the fourth consecutive month of year-over-year increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[147],"types-de-nouvelles":[],"class_list":["post-5898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadian-custom-brokerage","tag-statistics-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5899,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898\/revisions\/5899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5898"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-nouvelles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-nouvelles?post=5898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}