{"id":9420,"date":"2024-04-30T18:03:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T18:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/?p=9420"},"modified":"2024-04-30T18:03:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T18:03:28","slug":"canadian-railways-total-freight-volume-was-up-4-0-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/canadian-railways-total-freight-volume-was-up-4-0-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian railways&#8217; total freight volume was up 4.0% in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics Canada reports that Canadian railways transported 30.0 million tonnes of freight in February, up 4.0% from February 2023. Higher shipments of iron ores, other cereal grains as well as more containers helped bolster the year-over-year growth.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Agency notes that despite some bouts of cold weather in Western Canada during February 2024, restricting train length and speed, total cargo tonnage was well above the five-year average (27.3 million tonnes) for the month of February.<\/p>\n<p>Non-intermodal freight loadings in Canada rose 4.8% year over year to 23.7 million tonnes in February. Iron ores and concentrates-feedstock to produce steel-led the increase, with loadings rising 12.8% (+505 000 tonnes) from February 2023.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2024, intermodal shipments-mainly containers-originating in Canada also contributed to the overall growth, increasing 11.2% year over year to 2.8 million tonnes.<\/p>\n<p>Freight traffic coming from the United States declined for the second consecutive month, falling to 3.5 million tonnes in February, a decline of 5.9% from February of last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics Canada reports that Canadian railways transported 30.0 million tonnes of freight in February, up 4.0% from February 2023. Higher shipments of iron ores, other cereal grains as well as more containers helped bolster the year-over-year growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":9418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[147],"types-de-nouvelles":[],"class_list":["post-9420","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\/9420","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=9420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9421,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420\/revisions\/9421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9420"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-nouvelles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-nouvelles?post=9420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}