{"id":6973,"date":"2023-04-25T17:34:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T17:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/?p=6973"},"modified":"2023-04-25T17:34:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T17:34:24","slug":"canadian-railways-total-freight-volume-was-up-5-0-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/canadian-railways-total-freight-volume-was-up-5-0-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian railways&#8217; total freight volume was up 5.0% in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics Canada reports that Canadian railways transported 28.5 million tonnes of freight in February, up 5.0% from February 2022 on the strength of increasing grain shipments, marking the 10th straight month of year-over-year growth.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Agency notes that the volume of freight carried in February 2023 was well above the five-year average for the month, breaking the record of 27.4 million tonnes established in the same month in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Non-intermodal freight loadings in Canada increased for the 10th consecutive month, up 9.6% year over year to 22.5 million tonnes in February, led by large increases in some agricultural and food products-notably grains.<\/p>\n<p>Domestic intermodal shipments-mainly containers-continued their downward trend, falling 8.6% year over year to 2.5 million tonnes in February, a third consecutive month of decline.<\/p>\n<p>Freight traffic coming from the United States remained well below February 2022 levels, falling 10.3% to 3.5 million tonnes in February, marking the sixth consecutive month of year-over-year decline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics Canada reports that Canadian railways transported 28.5 million tonnes of freight in February, up 5.0% from February 2022 on the strength of increasing grain shipments, marking the 10th straight month of year-over-year growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":1042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[147],"types-de-nouvelles":[],"class_list":["post-6973","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\/6973","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6974,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6973\/revisions\/6974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6973"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-nouvelles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-nouvelles?post=6973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}