US coal carload counts increased for the second week and have
reached a level last seen in February, Association of American
Railroads data showed Wednesday.
For the week ending July 22, the AAR reported 88,304
coal carloads
traveled US railways, up 2% from the previous week and up 7% from
the year-ago week.
Volumes were last higher the week ending February 18 at 90,927
carloads. Coal counts year to date are up 16.4%, or about 338,000
carloads, compared to the first 29 weeks of 2016.
Canadian railroads -- which include the US operations of Canadian
National, which serves several mines in the Illinois Basin, and
Canadian Pacific -- saw originations slide to 6,728 coal carloads,
down 6.8% from the previous week and down 6.6% from the same week
last year.
Canadian coal volumes are up 3.8% year to date.
--Jim Levesque,
jim.levesque@spglobal.com
--Edited by Richard Rubin,
richard.rubin@spglobal.com
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