US coal carload volumes in the week ending November 11 slid 1.7% from the prior week as counts continued to trend below year-ago levels, the Association of American Railroads said Wednesday.
The AAR reported 85,378 coal carloads traveled US railways in most recent reporting week, down 7.3% from the year-ago week.
Coal shipments have remained below year-ago counts in nine straight weeks.
Despite recent declines during a slow domestic market in the fall shoulder season, coal counts year to date are up 9.5%, or about 332,000 carloads, compared to the first 45 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 fall to 6,301 coal carloads, down 10.8% from the previous week and down 13.3% from the same week last year.
Canadian coal volumes are up 6.4% year to date.
