This statistic represents railway carloadings in Canada in 2020, with a breakdown by commodity. Canadian railroads transported over 56.3 million metric tons of iron ores and concentrates and 33.5 million metric tons of coal products in that year.
Canadian railway carloadings in 2020, by type
(in million metric tons)
Characteristic
Carloadings in million metric tons
Iron ores and concentrates
56.36
Coal
33.5
Container-on-flat-car
33.17
Wheat
27.53
Potash
22.42
Fuel oils and crude petroleum
14.34
Canola
12.64
Lumber
9.33
Gaseous hydrocarbons including liquid petroleum gas (LPG's)
7.64
Wood pulp
7.17
Other basic chemicals
6.85
Other cereal grains
6.01
Fresh chilled or dried vegetables
5.77
Other wood products (plywood veneer)
5.64
Animal feed and products
4.86
Animal or vegetable fats oils and flours
4.85
Plastic and rubber
4.47
Sulphur
4.37
Other refined petroleum and coal products
4.37
Fertilizers (excluding potash)
3.83
Alumina
3.75
Iron and steel primary or semi-finished
3.73
Other oil seeds and nuts, other agricultural product
3.73
Metallic waste and scrap
3.54
Other metallic ores and concentrates
3.47
Total intermodal traffic received from US connections
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