{"id":7207,"date":"2023-06-06T13:35:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T13:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/?p=7207"},"modified":"2023-06-06T13:35:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T13:35:25","slug":"canadian-railways-total-freight-volume-was-up-5-4-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/canadian-railways-total-freight-volume-was-up-5-4-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian railways&#8217; total freight volume was up 5.4% in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics Canada reports that Canadian railways transported 33.2 million tonnes of freight in March, up 5.4% from March 2022 levels, marking the 11th consecutive month of year-over-year increases.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Agency notes that for March 2023, cargo tonnage was well above the five-year average for the month and second only to the record-high of 33.3 million tonnes set in the same month in 2021, primarily due to a large increase in grain shipments, notably wheat.<\/p>\n<p>The non-intermodal freight loaded in Canada accounted for the overall increase in freight carried in March, rising 11.7% year over year to 26.6 million tonnes. While widespread, growth was driven by considerable increases in the loadings of some agricultural and food products-most notably grains.<\/p>\n<p>Intermodal shipments-mainly containers-originating in Canada declined year over year for the fourth straight month, down 8.4% in March to 2.9 million tonnes.<\/p>\n<p>Freight loadings from connections with American railways fell year over year for the seventh month in a row, down 18.3% to 3.7 million tonnes in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics Canada reports that Canadian railways transported 33.2 million tonnes of freight in March, up 5.4% from March 2022 levels, marking the 11th consecutive month of year-over-year increases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"types-de-nouvelles":[],"class_list":["post-7207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadian-custom-brokerage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7208,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207\/revisions\/7208"}],"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=7207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7207"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-nouvelles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-nouvelles?post=7207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}