May 20, 2021 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Railway Age, May 19, 2021) NEW YORK — Both U.S. carloads and intermodal volume for the week ending May 15, 2021, rose sharply over the same point in 2020—31.6% and 25.6%, respectively, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported May 19. Full story:...
May 14, 2021 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, May 12, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending May 8, 2021. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 523,309 carloads...
May 13, 2021 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Railway Age, May 12, 2021) NEW YORK — For the week ending May 8, 2021, U.S. intermodal volume came in at 287,290 containers and trailers—climbing 26.3% from the same week last year and continuing a double-digit growth pace, reported the Association of...
May 7, 2021 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, May 5, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending May 1, 2021, as well as volumes for April 2021. U.S. railroads originated 951,840...
May 6, 2021 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Railway Age, May 5, 2021) NEW YORK — “A number of U.S. rail traffic categories have completely recovered ground lost during the pandemic or are very close to doing so,” AAR Senior Vice President John T. Gray noted in the AAR traffic report for April 2021 and...
April 30, 2021 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, April 28, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending April 24, 2021. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 538,184...
April 29, 2021 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: S&P Global Platts, April 28, 2021) HOUSTON — US coal carload originations rose to a seven-week high 64,252 in the week that ended April 24, up 4.3% from 61,600 a week earlier and 33.5% higher than the year-ago week, according to a April 28 report from...
April 29, 2021 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Railway Age, April 28, 2021) NEW YORK — U.S. intermodal continued its double-digit growth trend for the week ending April 24, 2021, with a whopping 34.3% gain vs. the prior-year period, according to an Association of American Railroads’ (AAR) April 28 report....
April 27, 2021 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Railway Age, April 26, 2021) NEW YORK — The Association of American Railroads (AAR), Railinc and a coalition of agricul-tural shippers will launch in late 2021 an online portal that will provide greater visibility into the most recent commodities hauled in...
April 23, 2021 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, April 21, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending April 17, 2021. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 533,217...
