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Bahri Logistics Partners with Saudi Arabia Railways

Bahri Logistics has entered into an international freight forwarding service agreement with Saudi Arabia Railways (SAR). SAR is the owner and operator of the railway networks in Saudi Arabia, which plays a pivotal role in supporting the goals of building an integrated transportation system. Under the terms of the three-year agreement, Bahri Logistics will serve as SAR's primary freight forwarding service provider for both imports and exports. The agreement was signed ... [+]

J.B. Hunt and BNSF Expand Intermodal Marketplace With Launch of Quantum

J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. and BNSF Railway (BNSF), have announced the launch of Quantum, a breakthrough intermodal service that accommodates the service-sensitive highway freight needs of customer supply chains. Quantum provides the consistency, agility and speed needed to transport service-sensitive highway freight using rail. ... [+]

Port Secures Major Federal Transportation Grant

$52.6 million award will fund critical portion of Pier B On-Dock Rail Support Facility U.S. Department of Transportation officials have announced a $52.6 million grant to modernize critical on-dock rail capabilities and improve several key roadways aimed at speeding the flow of cargo through the Port ... [+]

New eco-friendly locomotive to serve JAXPORT

A new environmentally-friendly locomotive will soon service the Jacksonville Port Authority’s (JAXPORT’s) Talleyrand Marine Terminal. The unit is one of eight locomotives nationwide being converted from diesel to battery-powered through funding provided by Kansas-based Watco Rail Services and a U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad ... [+]

GPA prepares for the future, adds inland rail connectivity

Garden City Terminal at the Port of Savannah handled 49,115 containers by rail in August (approximately 89,000 TEUs), an increase of 6% over the same month last year. Intermodal cargo represented 21.6% of total containers, an uptick in that ratio of roughly 7% compared to ... [+]

Schneider to add Mexico to upper Midwest intermodal service

Schneider National Inc. announced on April 21 that it will offer customers intermodal service on the newly merged Canadian Pacific Kansas City, which connects the upper Midwest of the United States and Mexico.Schneider will be a strategic intermodal carrier on CPKC’s north-south flagship intermodal service ... [+]

Rehabilitative work to 10 steel bridges on Coos Bay Rail Line concludes

In 2019, the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay received a grant of $20 million through the BUILD program from the Federal government and matching funds of $5 million from the State of Oregon to complete a comprehensive rehabilitation program for 15 steel bridges along ... [+]

Kalmar’s first heavy electric forklift

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has secured an order from Austrian rail logistics service provider Innofreight Solutions GmbH (Innofreight) for a Kalmar heavy electric forklift – the first of its kind to be delivered to a customer anywhere in the world. The order was booked in ... [+]

Port of Virginia on schedule

Port of Virginia® is on schedule to complete the expansion of its rail operation at Norfolk International Terminals (NIT) in 2024 and in doing so boost the port’s capacity to handle rail cargo by more than 35%.“Modernizing and expanding the capability at NIT’s Central Rail ... [+]

New daily rail service into Tennessee

Beginning April 1, The Port of Virginia® will expand its westward reach with a new daily rail service between the port’s primary container terminals and Norfolk Southern’s regional intermodal terminal near Memphis.“It’s an important step west and south for The Port of Virginia,” said Stephen ... [+]