US intermodal units top carload traffic

摘要

U.S. railroads handled more intermodal units in the week ending April 18 than carloads, according to the Association of American Railroads. U.S. carload traffic for the week was 276,416, down 4.9 percent compared with the same week in 2014. U.S. weekly intermodal volume was 280,016 containers and trailers, up 8.1 percent from 2014. The Government of Canada will not renew its requirement for Canadian National and Canadian Pacific to transport minimum volumes of grain by rail. The order expired March 28. The government is also making more grain-monitoring statistics publicly available.