Canada: railway carloadings by type 2021

This statistic represents railway carloadings in Canada in 2021, with a breakdown by commodity. Canadian railroads transported just under 54.2 million metric tons of iron ores and concentrates and 34.1 million metric tons of coal products in that year.

Canadian railway carloadings in 2021, by leading type (in million metric tons)

Characteristic	Carloadings in million metric tons
Iron ores and concentrates	54.18
Total non-intermodal traffic received from US connections	39.66
Container-on-flat-car	37.04
Coal	34.09
Potash	23.03
Wheat	22.83
Fuel oils and crude petroleum	13.63
Lumber	9.66
Canola	9.1
Gaseous hydrocarbons, including liquid petroleum gas (LPG's)	8.56
Other basic chemicals	5.65
Wood pulp	5.53
Other cereal grains	5.51
Other wood products (plywood, veneer)	5.45
Other refined petroleum and coal products	4.35
Iron and steel, primary or semi-finished	4.16
Animal feed and products	4.13
Sulphur	4.09
Animal or vegetable fats, oils and flours	3.8
Fertilizers (excluding potash)	3.57
Plastic and rubber	3.55
Alumina	3.54
Total intermodal traffic received from US connections	3.34
Metallic waste and scrap	3.26
Fresh, chilled or dried vegetables	3.16
Sand, gravel and crushed stone	3.09
Other metallic ores and concentrates	2.9
Other oil seeds and nuts, other agricultural product	2.9
Cement	2.65
Coal coke and petroleum coke	2.58
Aluminum, primary or semi-finished	2.53
Other chemical products and preparations	2.11
Gypsum	1.96
Sulphuric acid	1.9
Gasoline and aviation turbine fuel	1.89
Paper and paperboard, except printed products	1.45