Rail carloads, at 232,803, saw a 16.7% annual increase, and intermodal containers and trailers, at 277,654 units, saw a 4.4% ...

Freight transportation provider J.B. Hunt Transport Services (J.B. Hunt) has announced a new vessel service agreement that will increase its container count and “boost capacity for its customers.” Two ...

Union Pacific, in coordination with supply chain technology group Blume Global, has added GPS tracking to its fleet of ...

ITS Logistics announced that its April US Port/Rail Ramp Freight Index, released April 18, forecasts how the lack of empty container return availability is “negatively impacting shipping for ...

Canadian Pacific Kansas City added 1,000 new, 53-foot, refrigerated intermodal containers to its network to more than double its existing fleet and bring more shipping options to customers using the ...

Cosco Shipping is to acquire a majority of 80% stake of Hamburg -based forwarding and intermodal transport company Konrad ...

Farm exporters say the lack of use of the new Willamette Valley truck-to-rail shipping facility isn’t because of a lack of demand. Instead, ag exporters who supported construction of the intermodal ...

More than 725 late-model refrigerated intermodal containers are available for immediate sale following the closure of Tiger Cool Express. The company suddenly ceased operations in June. Tiger Cool ...

The Alabama Port Authority and CSX have begun constructing the Montgomery Intermodal Container Transfer Facility in the US. Credit: ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. The Alabama Port Authority in the US ...

This story appears in the May 18 print edition of Transport Topics. Intermodal freight volume declined 16% in the first quarter of 2009 from a year earlier, in part because of stiffer truck ...