{"id":7947,"date":"2023-10-31T17:43:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T17:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/?p=7947"},"modified":"2023-10-31T17:43:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T17:43:57","slug":"canadian-railways-august-freight-volume-was-2-4-below-august-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/canadian-railways-august-freight-volume-was-2-4-below-august-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian railways&#8217; August freight volume was 2.4% below August 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics Canada reports that Canadian railways transported 30.6 million tonnes of freight in August, down 2.4% from August 2022 levels and marking the fourth consecutive month of year-over-year decline.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Agency notes that the overall freight volume in August 2023 was just below the five-year average of 31.5 million tonnes for this month. While shipments of containers and certain energy products were down significantly, carloadings of some agricultural and food products registered strong gains.<\/p>\n<p>Intermodal shipments originating from Canada led the overall decline in freight for the second month in a row in August, falling 11.6% year over year to 2.9 million tonnes. Container volumes have declined year over year for nine straight months, and August was the second-lowest volume recorded for this month in seven years.<\/p>\n<p>Non-intermodal freight loadings in Canada edged down 0.8% year over year to 23.9 million tonnes, driven by sharp declines in some energy-based commodities<\/p>\n<p>Freight traffic received from connections with US railways saw a year-over-year decline for the 12th consecutive month, down 4.2% to 3.8 million tonnes in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics Canada reports that Canadian railways transported 30.6 million tonnes of freight in August, down 2.4% from August 2022 levels and marking the fourth consecutive month of year-over-year decline.<\/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-7947","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\/7947","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=7947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7948,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7947\/revisions\/7948"}],"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=7947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7947"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-nouvelles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-nouvelles?post=7947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}