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Transportation News * USA - Intermodal volumes are strong despite market conditions
Calverton,Md,USA -Logistic Management -17 Nov 2007: -- Despite the current economic slowdown, which has taken its toll on the freight transportation industry due to things like decreasing import volumes and domestic freight demand, total intermodal growth for the third quarter of this year was the second-best quarter ever recorded, according to Intermodal Market Trends & Statistics, a quarterly report published by the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA)... IANA reported that the total quarterly volume 3,618,617 loadings trail only last years third quarter, which came in at 3,699,544 units—or 2.2 percent better. And it added that growth in the third quarter outperformed the second quarter of this year by 3.5 percent. Domestic containers for the third quarter were 10.0 percent ahead of last year at 919,085, and international intermodal volume was 2,172,645, which was 3.7 percent off of the third quarter in 2006...
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