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.
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.
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.
Scope
- 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
Reasons to buy
- 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?
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Market value
Market value forecast
Geography segmentation
Market rivalry
Market Overview
Market definition
Market analysis
Market Data
Market value
Market Segmentation
Geography segmentation
Market Outlook
Market value forecast
Five Forces Analysis
Summary
Buyer power
Supplier power
New entrants
Threat of substitutes
Degree of rivalry
Leading Companies
Burlington Northern Santa Fe, LLC
CSX Corporation
Norfolk Southern Corporation
Union Pacific Corporation
Macroeconomic Indicators
Country data
Methodology
Industry associations
Related MarketLine research
Appendix
About MarketLine
List of Tables
Table 1: United States rail freight sector value: $ million, 2012–16
Table 2: United States rail freight sector geography segmentation: $ million, 2016
Table 3: United States rail freight sector value forecast: $ million, 2016–21
Table 4: Burlington Northern Santa Fe, LLC: key facts
Table 5: Burlington Northern Santa Fe, LLC: key financials ($)
Table 6: Burlington Northern Santa Fe, LLC: key financial ratios
Table 7: CSX Corporation: key facts
Table 8: CSX Corporation: key financials ($)
Table 9: CSX Corporation: key financial ratios
Table 10: Norfolk Southern Corporation: key facts
Table 11: Norfolk Southern Corporation: key financials ($)
Table 12: Norfolk Southern Corporation: key financial ratios
Table 13: Union Pacific Corporation: key facts
Table 14: Union Pacific Corporation: key financials ($)
Table 15: Union Pacific Corporation: key financial ratios
Table 16: United States size of population (million), 2012–16
Table 17: United States gdp (constant 2005 prices, $ billion), 2012–16
Table 18: United States gdp (current prices, $ billion), 2012–16
Table 19: United States inflation, 2012–16
Table 20: United States consumer price index (absolute), 2012–16
Table 21: United States exchange rate, 2012–15
List of Figures
Figure 1: United States rail freight sector value: $ million, 2012–16
Figure 2: United States rail freight sector geography segmentation: % share, by value, 2016
Figure 3: United States rail freight sector value forecast: $ million, 2016–21
Figure 4: Forces driving competition in the rail freight sector in the United States, 2016
Figure 5: Drivers of buyer power in the rail freight sector in the United States, 2016
Figure 6: Drivers of supplier power in the rail freight sector in the United States, 2016
Figure 7: Factors influencing the likelihood of new entrants in the rail freight sector in the United States, 2016
Figure 8: Factors influencing the threat of substitutes in the rail freight sector in the United States, 2016
Figure 9: Drivers of degree of rivalry in the rail freight sector in the United States, 2016
Figure 10: Burlington Northern Santa Fe, LLC: revenues & profitability
Figure 11: Burlington Northern Santa Fe, LLC: assets & liabilities
Figure 12: CSX Corporation: revenues & profitability
Figure 13: CSX Corporation: assets & liabilities
Figure 14: Norfolk Southern Corporation: revenues & profitability
Figure 15: Norfolk Southern Corporation: assets & liabilities
Figure 16: Union Pacific Corporation: revenues & profitability
Figure 17: Union Pacific Corporation: assets & liabilities
