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Jun 2, 2012

TRUCKING STATISTICS * NAFTA

* DC - US Intermodal Rail Volume Rises 4.3 Percent. CP strike pulls Canadian intermodal down 11.5 percent 

Washington,DC,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Mark Szakonyi -May 31, 2012: -- U.S. intermodal shipments on major railroads in the week ending May 26 rose 4.3 percent year-over-year and 1.2 percent from the week before, according to the Association of American Railroads... Carload volume rose 1.3 percent year-over-year and 3.9 from the prior week. Grain shipments fell 10 percent and coal volume dropped 6.3 percent from the same period a year ago, but the year-over-year declines were less severe than in previous weeks... Shipments of petroleum products and of motor vehicles and equipment continued to show double-digit year-over-year growth... For the first 21 weeks of 2012, intermodal traffic rose 2.9 percent from the same period a year ago; carload traffic declined 3.1 percent in the same period... Canadian intermodal volume in the week ending May 26 fell 11.5 percent year-over-year, and carload volume plunged 10.8 percent in the same period... Mexican intermodal volume last week rose 9.8 percent year-over-year, and carload traffic was up 4 percent in the same period...

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