June 12, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, June 6, 2020) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending June 6, 2020. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 433,171 carloads...
June 11, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Freight Waves, June 11, 2020) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Rail volumes could rebound in the second half of the year, but the pace of a rebound will depend largely on consumer confidence, executives from several Class I railroads cautioned at recent investor...
June 10, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Freight Waves, June 9, 2020) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — After hovering around the 400,000-unit mark all year, railcars in storage spiked 25% in May to 520,729. This was the one of many takeaways from the Association of American Railroads’ (AAR) June report. Full...
June 5, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Freight Waves, June 4, 2020) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Despite double-digit percentage drops in May, U.S. rail volumes on a weekly basis have been narrowing their declines over the same periods in 2019 as North America slowly opens up following COVID-19 pandemic...
June 5, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, June 3, 2020) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending May 30, 2020, as well as volumes for May 2020. U.S. railroads originated 740,171...
May 29, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Railway Age, May 28, 2020) NEW YORK — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ended May 23, 2020, and, despite continued drops compared to 2019, there were “encouraging signs.” Full story:...
May 29, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Association of American Railroads press release, May 27, 2020) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported U.S. rail traffic for the week ending May 23, 2020. For this week, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 428,715 carloads...
May 28, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Supply Chain Dive, May 27, 2020) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Union Pacific’s volume has fallen 23% so far in the second quarter as a result of the “ongoing economic impact of COVID-19,” the company’s CFO Jennifer Hamann said last week during...
May 28, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: S&P Global Platts, May 27, 2020) HOUSTON — For only the second time in the last eight weeks, US coal carload originations ticked higher on the week to 46,863 in the week that ended May 23, up 2.4% from the 10-year low 45,756 a week earlier, but 41.1%...
May 28, 2020 | AAR Freight Trends, Headlines
(Source: Freight Waves, May 27, 2020) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Although U.S. rail traffic is still sharply lower compared with the same period in 2019, rail volumes for intermodal and commodities such as motor vehicles and grain are higher sequentially on a weekly basis,...
