Intermodal providers

Hub Group today reported a record income of $15.4 million for the first quarter of 2013, an increase of 12 percent compared with $13.7 million for the first quarter of 2012.

Officials with America’s Central Port in Illinois and the Port of New Orleans have formalized a marketing agreement to identify and facilitate commercial opportunities between the two ports.

Intermodal Cartage Group, part of IMC Companies, has promoted two current team members to new roles and named two new hires at its Nashville, Tenn., office.

Mexico-based Grupo TMM reported a net loss of 202.5 million Mexican pesos (about US$16.5 million) in the fourth quarter of 2012, declining from a net loss of $3.2 million in the same quarter in the previous year.

ConGlobal Industries has teamed up with CakeBoxx Technologies to provide a range of depot, container yard and transportation services for CakeBoxx Technologies throughout the U.S. and Mexico.

At the end of 2013, representatives of inland shipping operators, seaport terminals, depots, shipping companies, hinterland terminals, the Port of Rotterdam Authority and the Netherlands’ Ministry of Infrastructure...

Toll Intermodal has opened its interstate freight forwarding facility in Kewdale, an intermodal hub in Perth in Western Australia.

The Intermodal Transportation Institute’s board of directors at the University of Denver has elected two new members: Mathieu Faure from Canadian Pacific Railway and Keith Reardon from Canadian National Railway.

A supply chain and logistics provider serving major U.S. fast food and sit-down chain restaurants said its customers could double the share of surface freight shipped via railroads to as much as 9 percent in the coming years.

Container lines’ rapid exit from intermodal chassis ownership is spawning several equipment supply models that emphasize flexibility and a larger role for lessors and truckers.

The Los Angeles Harbor Commission certified the final environmental impact report for BNSF’s proposed Southern California International Gateway.

Growth in refrigerated rail traffic and equipment serves as a strong signal that U.S. railroads are snatching back business some 60 years after the creation of the interstate highway system helped trucking take command of the temperature-controlled market.

H&S Container Line will launch rail service between Rotterdam in the Netherlands and the terminal on the Rhine river in Kehl, Germany.

CAI International reported profit of $64.3 million last year, increasing 27 percent from $50.8 million in 2011.

Intermodal container volume reached a record high in 2012 with 13.1 million moves.

Asset-light freight transportation management company Hub Group reported income in the fourth quarter of 2012 was $18.8 million, rising 11 percent compared with the fourth quarter of 2011.

Swiss intermodal operator Hupac blamed a weak European economy, periodic closures of the trans-Alpine Gotthard tunnel and increased competition from trucks for traffic slumping 10.7 percent in 2012.

The major U.S. railroads could eventually snatch about 45 million truck loads annually on routes 500 miles or higher, as intermodal infrastructure improves, fuel costs rise and trucking industry capacity tightens, a Cleveland Research senior analyst and partner said Wednesday.

Russian intermodal operator JSC TransContainer’s board of directors has approved the company’s strategy.

Russian intermodal company TransContainer reported its rail container volume in the fourth quarter of 2012 was about 381,400 20-foot-equivalent units, increasing 5.4 percent from about 362,000 TEUs in the same quarter of 2011.

The Intermodal Association of North America’s board of directors has elected Barry D. Michaels, Union Pacific Railroad Company’s vice president of intermodal operations, as chairman.

U.S. intermodal volume fell for the second week straight, dropping 8 percent year-over-year in the week ending Jan. 5, according to the Association of American Railroads.

Fast food chain Jack in the Box is moving more of its freight via 53-foot containers on intermodal trains.

Russian intermodal container transportation company TransContainer reported rail container volume in the first nine months of 2012 was 1.1 million 20-foot-equivalent units, rising 10.2 percent year-over-year.

U.S. intermodal volume fell 0.3 percent year-over-year in the week ending Dec. 8, while carload traffic dropped 1.6 percent in the same period, according to the Association of American Railroads.

Canadian National Railway in 2013 will continue to strengthen its intermodal connections to the ports of Prince Rupert and Metro Vancouver and build on its terminal network.

The American Waterways Operators and Waterways Council continue to warn the federal government of the detrimental economic effects of further restrictions or possible closure of...

Dordrecht, Netherlands-based Trifleet Leasing, a tank container lessor, has appointed Blue Service as its agent to develop markets in Czech Republic and Slovakia for tank container leasing.

U.S. spot intermodal rates, particularly lanes west to east, are gradually weakening off of the peak holiday volume period earlier in the fall, according to data from 3PL IDS Transportation.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The transloading of cargo from marine containers into 53-foot domestic equipment near seaports ebbs and flows based on macroeconomic developments. However, the long-term trend is definitely upward, as retailers use the strategy to manage the inventory in their supply chains.

Barge traffic on the Mississippi River between St. Louis and Cairo, Ill., may be restricted or halted in the beginning of December...

North Carolina State Ports Authority today named Jeffrey E. Miles as its new deputy executive director for operations, by Tom Bradshaw, executive director.