Hunt Gets Bigger Bill For Rail Service
Shippers will likely start seeing increased intermodal rates from J.B. Hunt when contracts renew, according to Morgan Stanley. Hunt will pass on higher...
Port of Gulfport on a fast track toward recovery
The Mississippi State Port Authority at Gulfport sustained significant damage during Hurricane Katrina like the rest of the Gulf region. In the days following...
Rail Volumes See Little Effect From Katrina
Rail traffic increased 2.3% in Week 35 (ended September 3rd), according to Morgan Stanley. An 8% growth in grain volumes and a 6.4% rise in intermodal...
Infrastructure Damage Confined, Say Railroads
North American railroads serving the Gulf Coast region reported service had been restored to many of their lines in the area within a week of the disaster....
Katrina puts supply chains to the ultimate test
Highways in the Gulf Coast region have sustained serious damage in the wake of hurricane Katrina, with major bridges along east-west interstate highways...
Rail Volumes Up, Union Pacific Improving
With volumes of carloadings and intermodal traffic increasing, overall network speed across North American railroads fell 1.7% in Week 13 (through April 1). Year-to-date, train speed dropped 4.9%...
Can we hold the line on logistics costs?
There's no doubt transportation costs have been rising, but how significant is that rise in the context of total logistics costs? The brief answer, based...
Speeding Shipments from the East Coast to the Midwest
Under discussion for years - since the 1980s-- the Heartland corridor concept is an intermodal rail route that will offer double-stack container movement...
Rail Traffic Picking Up
Intermodal continues to be a major force in rail volume growth on North American Class 1 railroads. And within the category, containers are a substantial...
Rail Capacity Tight, Prices Strong
Looking at railroad results through the second quarter of 2005, equity analysis firm Morgan Stanley noted that despite the slowest growth rate in six...
Warehousers Hit Back at BNSF Demurrage Charge Changes
BNSF says its new rates offer incentives for faster turns on rail-controlled carload equipment. The new rules specify that demurrage be calculated on...
Coal dust slows rails
According to equity research firm Morgan Stanley, coal dust was blamed for derailments on the main line coming out of the Powder River Basin in Wyoming....
U.S. Freight Rail Heightens Security Readiness, Portugal Joins CSI
In addition to measures already in place, railroads reacted by deploying more police and K-9 units to sensitive areas while promoting greater vigilance...
Senate Bill Proposes Re-routing Rail Dangerous Chemical Shipments
A bill introduced by Senator Joseph Bidden (Dem.-Delaware) seeks to stop movement of dangerous chemicals through what he calls high threat corridors....
STB asks railroads to explain their peak season strategies
Roger Nober, chairman of the Surface Transportation Board (STB), has asked each of the seven largest North American railroads to report to the Board within...
Slower Growth For Rail
Year-to-date rail carloadings were up a mere 1.7% over the same period a year ago. Intermodal increased 6.4% during that same period...
The Last Mile: No Shipment Left Behind
Without debating the pros and cons of the "No Child Left Behind" program, it's clear that having a national education policy gets people talking about...
Slow boat from China
Ports on the U.S. West Coast receive 70% of all shipments in from China, and the number of shipments is increasing by 14% annually, observes Chuck Lounsbury,...
Across the border: NAFTA Rail finally leaves the station
After years of law suits, the NAFTA railroad now runs from Mexico into the U.S. by Ricardo Castillo Mireles After eight years of legal conflicts, the...
A glimmer of hope for shippers
As shippers begin preparing for the fall peak season, they may be mildly surprised to find that trucking prices are slowing not by much, but at least...
U.S. trucking to increase its carrying load annual tonnage to 13 billion tons, a figure that will represent 69.1% of all tonnage that year.
Although they won't be the dominant force, the two fastest-growing modes over the next 10 years will be rail/ intermodal and air transport, according...
New Moves to Deal with Port Congestion
uring the second half of July, all marine terminals in the Ports of Los Angles and Long Beach will start Off-Peak shifts on nights and weekends. PierPASS – a not-for-profit organization created by marine terminal operators to reduce congestion and improve air quality in and around the Southern California Ports...
Mineta Offers Plan to Improve U.S. Rail Safety
“We will work to reduce accidents caused by human error, address railroad operator fatigue, improve track safety and enhance the safety of hazardous materials shipments”...
Now Cleveland is Looking to Ban Hazardous Shipments
A proposal to issue the ban has not yet been enacted...
Short Lines and Intermodal Continue Rail Growth Trends
According to RMI, excluding bulk commodities and intermodal traffic, short line carload growth was 11.9% for the first quarter, while the Class I carriers showed carload growth of 2.3%. Carload traffic accounted for 63% of all short line growth, with intermodal moves at 31%...
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