October 22, 2021 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, October 20, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending October 16, 2021. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 496,983...
October 22, 2021 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Global Trade Magazine, October 19, 2021) DALLAS, Texas — How hot is intermodal right now? Total volumes rose 20.4% year-over-year in the second quarter of 2021, according to the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) Intermodal Quarterly report. Full...
October 19, 2021 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Freight Waves, October 14, 2021) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The U.S. freight rail industry is praising public and private measures encouraging supply chain partners to adopt operational practices that are 24 hours a day, seven days a week in order to relieve...
October 15, 2021 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, October 13, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending October 9, 2021. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 506,642...
October 14, 2021 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Railway Age, October 13, 2021) NEW YORK — For the week ending Oct. 9, 2021, total U.S. weekly rail traffic came in at 506,642 carloads and intermodal units, down 2.6% compared with the same week in 2020, AAR reported on Oct. 13. U.S. Class I railroads moved...
October 12, 2021 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, October 6, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending October 2, 2021, as well as volumes for September 2021. U.S. railroads...
October 7, 2021 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Railway Age, October 6, 2021) NEW YORK — “Rail intermodal volume is clearly not what it has been and could be,” AAR Senior Vice President John T. Gray noted in the association’s Oct. 6 rail traffic report, which found that September 2021 container and trailer...
October 4, 2021 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, PSR, UP
(Source: Washington Post, October 3, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The commercial pipeline that each year brings $1 trillion worth of toys, clothing, electronics and furniture from Asia to the United States is clogged and no one knows how to unclog it. Dozens of cargo...
October 1, 2021 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, September 29, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending September 25, 2021. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was...
September 30, 2021 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, PSR
(Source: Railway Age, September 29, 2021) NEW YORK — During the 38th week of the year, U.S. Class I railroads hauled 239,069 carloads, increasing 6.6% compared with the same week in 2020, and 272,644 containers and trailers, falling 7.3% from last year. This is the...
