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The Canadian railway industry loaded 23.0 million metric tonnes in July, down 6.4% from July 2007.
The drop in loadings was primarily attributable to a decline in non-intermodal loadings of wheat, coal, iron ore and concentrates, and forestry related products, such as lumber and newsprint.
Combined, these commodities helped push non-intermodal loadings down to 20.5 million tonnes, a decrease of 7.3% from last year's level.
Intermodal loadings, by contrast, rose 1.3% from July last year, to 2.5 million tonnes. Both containerized shipments and trailers loaded on flat cars saw increases.
Rail freight traffic coming from the United States increased 9.5% from July 2007 to 2.9 million tonnes.
Available on CANSIM: table 404-0002.
Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 2732.
The July 2008 issue of Monthly Railway Carloadings, Vol. 85, no. 7 (52-001-XWE, free), is now available from the Publications module of our website.
For more information, or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact the Dissemination Unit (toll-free 1-866-500-8400; fax: 613-951-0009; transportationstatistics@statcan.gc.ca), Transportation Division.
