September 18, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, September 15, 2020) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending September 12, 2020. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was...
September 17, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Railway Age, September 16, 2020) NEW YORK — The Association of American Railroads now has 37 mostly painful weeks of traffic data. The decline, driven by a sputtering global economy suffering from the impacts of COVID-19, the worst health crisis since the...
September 15, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, Railroad Security
(Source: The Intercept, September 13, 2020) Environmental reporter Justin Mikulka was unnerved as he scanned through the pages. “A friend had contacted me and said that he had found some documents with my name in them,” Mikulka recalled to The Intercept. “He told me I...
September 10, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Freight Waves, September 9, 2020) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Weekly U.S. intermodal volumes were up by nearly a quarter last week amid increased activity for domestic and international containers and trailers. U.S. freight railroads moved 287,339 intermodal...
September 10, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Supply Chain Dive, September 10, 2020) WASHINGTON, D.C. — August was the best month for intermodal volumes on U.S. railroads since October 2018, according to the Association of American Railroads. U.S. railroads originated more than 1.1 million intermodal...
September 9, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines, STB
(Source: S&P Global Platts, September 8, 2020) HOUSTON — The average revenue per short ton for coal on the four major US railroads was $16.23/st in the second quarter of 2020, down $1.53/st cents from the year-ago quarter, Surface Transportation Board data showed...
September 4, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Freight Waves, September 3, 2020) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — August was the best month for intermodal loadings for U.S. freight railroads since October 2018, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) said Wednesday. August also marked the fifth-best intermodal...
September 4, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, September 2, 2020) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending August 29, 2020, as well as volumes for August 2020. U.S. railroads...
August 28, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Freight Waves, August 27, 2020) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — U.S. intermodal traffic on a weekly basis gained 5% in the week ending Aug. 22, which in turn helped lift overall rail volumes higher. Intermodal volumes are 2.5% higher sequentially, and it was the third...
August 28, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, August 26, 2020) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending August 22, 2020. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 514,914...
