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...Revenue from intermodal traffic — shipping containers and truck trailers — fell 13 per cent to $563m. Overall revenues fell 12 per cent to $2.52bn....
...Intermodal — shipping containers and truck trailers — fell 3 per cent by volume and 5 per cent by revenue....
...BNSF’s trains slowed down from last October as the company experienced surging grain, crude oil and intermodal – container and trailer – traffic....
...Wick Moorman, NS’s chief executive, said that, despite the declines in coal shipments, it had seen steady gains in intermodal traffic – carrying containers and trailers – chemicals, automotive and materials...
...Norfolk Southern, the US’s fourth-largest railroad, even reported a 2 per cent rise in domestic intermodal traffic for the first quarter this year when nearly every other form of traffic declined....
...But some forms of traffic, including automotive parts and intermodal traffic – goods moved in shipping containers – were down sharply from their peak....
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