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Rail Freight in the United States

Summary
Rail Freight in the United States industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market size (value and volume 2012-16, and forecast to 2021). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market.

Key Findings

- Save time carrying out entry-level research by identifying the size, growth, and leading players in the rail freight market in the United States
- Use the Five Forces analysis to determine the competitive intensity and therefore attractiveness of the rail freight market in the United States
- Leading company profiles reveal details of key rail freight market players’ global operations and financial performance
- Add weight to presentations and pitches by understanding the future growth prospects of the United States rail freight market with five year forecasts by both value and volume

Synopsis
Essential resource for top-line data and analysis covering the United States rail freight market. Includes market size data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends, leading companies and macroeconomic information.

Reasons To Buys

- What was the size of the United States rail freight market by value in 2016?
- What will be the size of the United States rail freight market in 2021?
- What factors are affecting the strength of competition in the United States rail freight market?
- How has the market performed over the last five years?
- How large is the United States’s rail freight market in relation to its regional counterparts?

Key Highlights

- The rail freight sector is defined as consisting of revenues generated from freight transportation by rail.
- The US rail freight sector had total revenues of $57.3bn in 2016, representing a compound annual rate of change (CARC) of -1.7% between 2012 and 2016.
- Sector consumption volumes declined with a CARC of -1.9% between 2012-2016, to reach a total of 2,314.3 billion FTK in 2016.
- Although the Obama administration introduced a series of measures that made coal increasingly unattractive in the US, incumbent US President Donald Trump has in his first couple of months in office undone many of these regulations, including the ‘Office of Surface Mining's Stream Protection Rule’ which protected waterways from waste from coal mines. Such acts are likely to boost coal demand in the US again and as a consequence will boost the rail freight sector as well. This is one of the reasons why the US rail freight sector is expected to bounce back to growth in the coming years.