Intermodal providers

C.H. Robinson Worldwide is putting 500 new intermodal containers into its U.S. shipping network as the freight broker seeks to add greater flexibility in shifting business between modes.

Intermodal freight shipments moved by U.S. railroads jumped 16.8 percent year-over-year in the week ending Feb.

Norfolk Southern Railway and CSX Transportation are expanding their eastern U.S. intermodal rail networks, with new routes, facilities and services expected this year.

Hub Group expects a “transformational year” for the intermodal industry as Eastern rail network expansion boosts intermodal volumes, company officials said.

Higher rates and volumes boosted fourth-quarter net profit 25.4 percent to $72.6 million at J.B. Hunt Transport Services, the nation’s largest intermodal trucker.

Far East Land Bridge will launch a new rail service in March linking Europe to the thriving manufacturing center of Chongqing in central China.

Trucking giant Schneider National and CSX Transportation signed a multiyear contract expanding their intermodal partnership in the Eastern U.S.

Intermodal volume for major U.S. railroads fell 9.3 percent year-over-year in the week ending Jan.

Major U.S.

Florida East Coast Railway plans to expand the reach of its intermodal business in 2012, adding a second drayage “relay” station in Georgia and strengthening its partnerships with large U.

Intermodal volume for major U.S. railroads soared 22.9 percent year-over-year in the week ending Dec.

Intermodal volume for U.S.

Intermodal container traffic increased 2.6 percent week-to-week and 6.9 percent year-over-year in the week ending Nov.

Domestic intermodal traffic spiked upward 6.3 percent in the third quarter, an industry group said

Intermodal provider Hub Group said its Comtrak Logistics unit acquired assets of intermodal drayage trucker Challenge

Somewhere, somehow, the intermodal market missed the message that the U.S. economy might be stumbling back into recession.

The center of intermodal growth is shifting toward the center of the U.S., as U.S. manufacturing creates more shorter-haul, domestic intermodal freight.

As more truckloads are converted to intermodal containerloads, trucking companies aren’t rushing to cut rates to keep that freight on the highway.

Intermodal provider Pacer International had a

Container Corp.

TransContainer, Russia’s largest rail container operator, boosted third quarter traffic by 9.3 percent year-over-year, partly due to 28.7 percent jump in export shipments.

Logistics services company Transplace is expanding from its trucking base into intermodal rail by merging with intermodal marketer Celtic International.

DB Schenker said its new daily rail container service between Germany and China, starting in late November, will more than halve the transit time of sea transport.

With a mild 0.6 percent gain in the latest week, major North American railroads again set a new all-time high in intermodal loadings with 313,026 containers and trailers in the week ending Oct.

BNSF Railway’s proposed $500 million near-dock intermodal terminal in Los Angeles-Long Beach will take up up to 1.5 million trucks a year off congested roads and freeways, according to a environ

Intermodal traffic on major North American railroads hit its highest weekly volume so far this year in the week ending Sept.

Major U.S.

APL Logistics said it is outperforming the U.S. intermodal market since its reentry into the business last year after a decade-long absence.

CSX will spend $59 million to expand its intermodal terminal in Columbus, Ohio, leveraging its new terminal to the north and part of its $850 million initiative to better connect East Coast ports with

The Broward County Board of County Commissioners on Aug.

Major railroads in the U.S., Canada and Mexico picked up 1.3 percent more intermodal containers and trailers last week than the week previous, for their second-highest total of 2011.

North American railroads were outpacing 2010 intermodal volume through mid-August, as increases in container loadings more than offset a slowdown in trailer hauls and boosted prospects for improved pe

Swift Transportation, the largest U.S. truckload carrier, is expanding its container business with a cross-border intermodal service linking the U.S. and Mexico.

With a $150 million investment in Express-1 Expedited Solutions awaiting shareholder approval, “career CEO” Bradley S.

Ryder System says it plans to take more of the shipments it sends to trucks under the company's outsourced logistics operations and divert them to intermodal freight rail.

Shippers shifted freight from all-truck modes to intermodal at the fastest pace in years during the second quarter, according to a closely watched survey by the Wolfe Trahan research group.

Construction is under way on a major intermodal yard and locomotive refueling complex for Union Pacific Railroad at Santa Teresa, N.M., just inside the state border west of El Paso, Texas.

North American rail hauls of intermodal containers and trailers rose 6.5 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier, as domestic traffic gains outpaced those from marine boxes.

North American rail shipments of intermodal containers and trailers threw off a slowdown in the final week of July, rising 3.4 percent to a new volume peak so far in 2011 of 301,393 units.

Intermodal middleman Pacer International’s profit tripled year-over-year in the second quarter despite shrinkage in top-line receipts, as the company transitions from wholesaling train space to