University of Denver Intermodal Transportation Institute Receives New IANA Scholarship
The Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) has created a scholarship program to encourage development of freight transportation managers. It granted...
Intermodal Sets Volume Record in Third Quarter
Intermodal volume hit a new record of 3.7 million loads in the third quarter, increasing by 4.9% and topping the previous high set in the second quarter,...
Intermodal Traffic Continues Its Upward Trend
Cumulative U.S. volumes for carload traffic during the first 42 weeks of the year were up 1.4%with declines in nine specific commodity groups. Nonmetallic...
Can Truckload Reclaim Volumes From Intermodal?
In its just-released Freight Pulse 11 survey, Morgan Stanley analysts indicate truck capacity is and demand is softening. The easing of truckload capacity...
Rail Rate Rules Are Wrong Route
In comments filed with the Surface Transportation Board (STB), the National Industrial Transportation League (NITL) said the STBs efforts to create a...
Railroads Move to Boost Intermodal Service
The corridor is designed to tie together the West Coast and Southeast region of the country. Although there is provision to expand the service as traffic...
NITL Supports Railroads Expansion
In one of the largest proposed rail expansions in a century, the Dakota Minnesota & Eastern Railroad (DM&E) announced plans in 1997 to expand into the...
Will California Container Tax Veto Hold?
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger rejected Senate Bill 927, which would have levied a $30 fee per twenty-foot-equivalent unit (TEU) on cargo containers...
How Much Does Congestion Cost?
As sourcing from China surges, import traffic growth is straining U.S. West Coast ports and inland distribution infrastructure. More shipments are arriving...
Capacity Crunch to Continue But Not Cripple
When the discussion turns to available shipping capacity, especially during the peak season from July through December, the issue may be more emotional...
The Fed to Fund the Heartland Corridor
The funds will be used to raise tunnel clearances and modify other overhead obstructions to permit rail double-stack trains to move from the Hampton Roads...
Intermodal Traffic Keeps Climbing, Particularly from Asia
The figures were released in the second quarter edition of Intermodal Market Trends & Statistics, which is published quarterly by the Intermodal Association...
U.K. Rail Reliability Suffers
A freight shuttle bound for France was cause for the Channel Tunnel to be closed when smoke was detected coming from a refrigerated unit onboard the train....
Oakland Will Open a New Intermodal Yard, Portland Wont
After three years of groundwork, the Port of Oakland will take over the former Oakland Army Base property and create the Outer Harbor Intermodal Terminal...
Good Shippers Hold the Line on Costs
Call it collaboration by coercion if you like, but shippers and consignees are learning that to keep rates in lineor even to get serviceyou have to become...
Mexican Rail Merger Denied Again
The refusal by the Mexican government's antitrust watchdog Federal Competition Commission (CFC, www.cfc.gob.mx) to allow a $300 million merger between...
Fuel Charges and Counter Charges
The National Industrial Transportation League's (NITL) position before the Surface Transportation Board (STB) is that "a fuel surcharge program, properly...
Fuel For Inflation
There are three drivers for fuel prices, according to Mark Hazelwood, executive vice president of Pilot Corp. Fundamentals, inventories and consumption,...
Market Pulse
Old Dominion revenues climb 24%, profits up 52% For the first six months of 2006, total revenues for Old Dominion Freight Line (www.odfl.com) increased...
Union Pacific to Build a $90 Million San Antonio Terminal
Not only will the new terminal handle the usual movement of trailers and containers, but also it will serve for the movement of auto parts for the new...
National Coordination Needed For Intermodal
Tom Petri (R-Wisc.) called for hearings to familiarize members of Congress with issues and challenges facing intermodal transport, but states, local governments...
Simplified Rail Rate Cases not Simple Enough
We continue to pursue changes to the simplified guidelines that would achieve the dual statutory goals [established by Congress in 1995] of providing...
What Can be Done About the Nations Freight Capacity Crisis?
The U.S. faces a stark choice: expand the country's capacity to move freight or put a brake on economic growth. Industry experts explored the expansion...
From Mexico to the Southeast U.S. by Rail, Every Day
The daily service by Kansas City Southern (KCS) and its subsidiaries Kansas City Southern de Mexico and the Kansas City Southern Railway Co. will move...
Schneider Opens Ohio Intermodal Facility
Schneider National Inc. opened its Ohio Valley intermodal facility at the Marion Ohio Industrial Center on June 5th, saying it is the first truckload...
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