* Ohio - Truckload Demand Index Rises 6.8 Percent
Independence,OH,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by William B. Cassidy -Oct 7, 2010: -- Longbow research reports relatively tight truck capacity on West Coast... Truckload demand is rising although it is still below its peak of mid-June, and capacity remains tight on the West Coast, according to Longbow Research... The investment research firm's weekly truckload barometer rose 6.8 percent Oct. 6 to a reading of 102.8, its second consecutive week-over-week increase... That could be a sign that trucking companies will see a fall pre-holiday peak season... On a year-over-year basis, Longbow's truckload index is up 52.7 percent. It has slipped 34.1 percent since Mid-June and 8.8 percent from three weeks ago... Demand rose in August, but slipped in September, reflecting a monthly sequential decrease in truck tonnage as measured by the American Trucking Associations...
* DC - Retail container traffic to be up 11% in October
Washington,DC,USA -The Trucker News Services -8 Oct 2010: -- While October has long been the busiest month of the year as retailers rush to fill shelves with merchandise for the holiday season, the peak shifted to August this year... Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to be up 11 percent in October over the same month last year and should continue to see strong year-over-year growth even as seasonal levels wind down through the remainder of 2010, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released today by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates... U.S. ports handled 1.42 million Twenty-foot Equivalent Units in August, the latest month for which actual numbers are available. That was up 3 percent from July and 23 percent from August 2009. It was the ninth month in a row to show a year-over-year improvement after December 2009 broke a 28-month streak of year-over-year declines. One TEU is one 20-foot cargo container or its equivalent...
* DC - Intermodal Holds Near 2010 Peak - Volume edges down slightly below highest level of year
Washington,DC,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by John D. Boyd -Oct 7, 2010: -- Intermodal traffic continued nearly at its peak volume of 2010 in the latest week on North America's major freight railroads... Large U.S.-owned rail lines - the five U.S. Class I carriers plus a few regional and short line operators that report to the Association of American Railroads - originated 240,252 intermodal containers and trailer shipments in the week ending Oct. 2, the second-largest volume of the year following 241,167 units in the Sept. 25 week... Counting a mild increase in shipments by the AAR's Mexican reporting lines and a scant decline for the Canadian-owned operators, the 300,328 loaded intermodal boxes that major North American railroads picked up last week stayed almost even with 300,350 they hauled the week before... That suggests the late-summer intermodal surge continued all through September and that traffic levels continue to be strong as October gets under way. This is traditionally the peak month for intermodal loads of consumer goods headed to retail store shelves and warehouses, so they can be ready for yearend holiday sales... Labels: transport statistics
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