Rail
The Port of Virginia® rewrote its record books once again, having handled 235,511 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) in August, making it the single busiest month in the port’s history.
In comparison with last August, TEU volumes are up 7 percent; rail units up 20 percent and truck volume up .4 percent; and volume at Richmond Marine Terminal (RMT) is up 33 percent. Moreover, October marks the seventh consecutive month of TEU ...
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Metro trains are heading to Peru thanks to efforts by Hapag-Lloyd to load a metro train with six cars on August 16 in Salerno, Italy. The train will be shipped aboard the “Cerinthus” to the Peruvian port of Callao. From there, it will be transported ...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has awarded $25 million in grants for 11 projects in six states and the District of Columbia to assist in implementing Positive Train Control (PTC). FRA received 30 eligible applications requesting $90.6 million, nearly four ...
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Chairman Daniel R. Elliott III of the Surface Transportation Board (STB) visited the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) in Ottawa, Canada, earlier this month to discuss opportunities for the two agencies to work together and to share information and best practices. Like the STB, the CTA ...
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Trucks carried more US freight by value with NAFTA partners Canada and Mexico in May 2016 compared to May 2015 but declines in all other freight modes led to a 3.1% decrease to $89.8 billion in the total current dollar value of cross-border freight. May ...
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The Port of Coos Bay is celebrating 100 years of the completion of Coos Bay rail line when the first train left North Bend for Eugene in 1916. In honor of the centennial, a three day Port of Coos Bay at the Railroad Centennial Celebration ...
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Florida East Coast Railway (FECR) recently debuted a new online quoting tool, EZ Buy. The tool provides an online price quote and booking system for customers to ‘buy’ door-to-door intermodal transactional freight between the Southeast U.S. markets and the South Florida markets.
One of the key ...
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Greg Fox, executive vice president, Operations, plans to retire after more than 30 years with the railroad. Fox has served in that role since November 2010.
Succeeding Fox as executive vice president, Operations, will be Dave Freeman effective June 1. Freeman will oversee the entire Operations ...
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These wildflowers are firewheels, also known as Indian blankets, and right now they're covering much of BNSF Railway's headquarters campus in Fort Worth, Texas. They're part of a BNSF sustainability initiative that has already saved 2.5 million gallons of water.
Since October 2015, the railroad has ...
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According to Forecast, a collaboration between the American Trucking Associations (ATA) and IHS Global Insight, overall freight tonnage will grow 23.5% from 2013 to 2025 and freight revenues will surge 72%.
“We continue to see growth for the entire freight economy – but we also see ...
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