# Grain Transportation Report, December 19, 2024

> For the week ending December 5, unshipped corn, soybean and wheat balances for 2024/25 totaled 41.28 million tonnes, and railcar grain loadings rose 31 percent week over week. Canadian Pacific Kansas City completed a new rail bridge at Laredo, Texas, the top U.S. grain crossing to Mexico, where it adds capacity to the single existing bridge.

- Date: 2024-12-19 · published 2024-12-19T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: logistics · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/16488-grain-transportation-report-december-19-2024
- Commodities: [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md), [Soybeans](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SOY.md)

## Why it matters

Expanded rail capacity into Mexico should ease corn movement bottlenecks and support U.S. corn export flows, while lower railcar bids reflect softer rail demand.

## Read by commodity

- SOY: neutral
- CORN: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CORN | 2024-06-27 | [Grain Transportation Report, June 27, 2024](https://feedsoft.ai/events/17021-grain-transportation-report-june-27-2024.md) | -2.3% | -0.1% |
| CORN | 2024-07-03 | [Grain Transportation Report, July 4, 2024](https://feedsoft.ai/events/16529-grain-transportation-report-july-4-2024.md) | +0.7% | -0.8% |
| CORN | 2024-05-30 | [Grain Transportation Report, May 30, 2024](https://feedsoft.ai/events/16541-grain-transportation-report-may-30-2024.md) | -4.0% | -5.1% |
| CORN | 2020-10-01 | [Grain Transportation Report, October 1, 2020](https://feedsoft.ai/events/50502-grain-transportation-report-october-1-2020.md) | -0.3% | +6.4% |
| CORN | 2024-01-04 | [Grain Transportation Report, January 4, 2024](https://feedsoft.ai/events/16569-grain-transportation-report-january-4-2024.md) | -1.1% | -2.1% |
| SOY | 2022-05-19 | [Grain Transportation Report, May 19, 2022](https://feedsoft.ai/events/41438-grain-transportation-report-may-19-2022.md) | +1.1% | +2.8% |
| SOY | 2024-04-11 | [Grain Transportation Report, April 11, 2024](https://feedsoft.ai/events/30926-grain-transportation-report-april-11-2024.md) | -1.3% | +4.1% |
| SOY | 2024-01-11 | [Grain Transportation Report, January 11, 2024](https://feedsoft.ai/events/16576-grain-transportation-report-january-11-2024.md) | -1.2% | -2.9% |

## Sources

- doi.org: https://doi.org/10.9752/ts056.12-19-2024

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