• Metals traffic increased 4,971 carloads, or 47.7%, primarily due to increased scrap and finished steel shipments in most G&W regions.
• Other commodity group traffic increased 2,634 carloads, or 59.7%, primarily due to increased empty overhead car shipments in most G&W regions.
• Coal & coke traffic increased 1,939 carloads, or 9.2%, primarily due to increased shipments of overhead and export steam coal in G&W's Northeast Region and steam coal in G&W's Midwest Region.
• Minerals & stone traffic increased 1,926 carloads, or 10.4%, primarily due to increased shipments of construction aggregates and cement in most G&W regions.
• Agricultural products traffic increased 1,742 carloads, or 11.4%, primarily due to increased soybean meal shipments in G&W's Western Region.
• All remaining traffic increased by a net 2,647 carloads.

• Coal & coke traffic increased 5,232, or 15.5%, primarily due to increased demand as well as spot coal shipments for various customers in the Hunter Valley.
• Minerals & stone traffic increased 1,179 carloads, or 25.6%, primarily due to increased gypsum shipments as July 2017 was negatively impacted by an outage at a customer port facility.
• Agricultural products traffic decreased 1,912 carloads, or 37.0%, primarily due to a weaker 2017-2018 harvest in South Australia.
• Metallic ores traffic decreased 1,179 carloads, or 35.9%, primarily due to the planned, temporary shutdown of an iron ore mine in October 2017.
• All remaining traffic decreased by a net 311 carloads.

Historically, G&W has found that traffic information may be indicative of freight revenues on its railroads. Freight revenues are revenues for which G&W is paid on a per car, per container or per metric ton basis to move freight. Activities such as railcar switching, port terminal shunting, traction services and other similar freight-related services are excluded from our traffic information as the resulting revenues are not classified as freight revenue. Traffic information may not be indicative of total operating revenues, operating expenses, operating income or net income. Please refer to the documents G&W files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, such as its Form 10-Q and 10-K, which contain additional information on G&W's freight traffic and segment reporting.

• G&W's seven North American regions serve 41 U.S. states and four Canadian provinces and include 115 short line and regional freight railroads with more than 13,000 track-miles.
• G&W's Australia Region serves New South Wales, the Northern Territory and South Australia and operates the 1,400-mile Tarcoola-to-Darwin rail line. The Australia Region is 51.1% owned by G&W and 48.9% owned by a consortium of funds and clients managed by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets.
• G&W's UK/Europe Region includes the U.K.'s largest rail maritime intermodal operator and second-largest freight rail provider, as well as regional rail services in Continental Europe.