Rail News

Since March, parcel giant UPS has shifted at least some of its cargo from CSX to NS.

US and Mexican Customs officials at a KCS-built facility will work to speed growing cross-border rail traffic at Laredo.

The issue threatens the hard-won gains from a government initiative to lower logistics costs for domestic shippers.

Diversion routes in Germany are also out of service because of engineering work, threatening further delays at Europe’s top container port.

The dispute focuses on efforts to modernize the Trans-Siberian Railway.

The new seven-day-a-week service was announced on Aug. 14 after a trial period with Hapag-Lloyd.

The new terminal, pulling in grain carloads from the western Canadian provinces and the US Midwest, will help alleviate equipment shortages for North American outbound moves.

The growing popularity of shipping containers by rail from China to Europe is leading to delays as increasing cargo volume begins to overpower European terminals.

Concor’s net profit during jumped 36.4 percent year over year.

By volume, JNPT handled 61,383 TEU during the month via rail.

More than 80 percent of CSX shippers surveyed have experienced problems with the railroad’s service.

The Bangladesh government is welcoming private sector investments in inland container terminals.

“The restriction on loading of trains to Mundra Port has been lifted.”

Chicago-area draymen are charging shippers surcharges of $75 and even double that.

Port CEO Brandy Christian called the agreement a “win-win”.

Shippers are shouldering the cost of a sudden and often unexplained increase in unpaid tolls racked up by independent drayage drivers.

The disruption at Mundra is the latest weather-related complication for Indian shippers.

J.B. Hunt’s first acquisition in recent memory is neither in the first nor final-mile logistics space.

Starting Aug. 1, three time-definite train runs a week will be introduced linking inland locations to Mundra and Pipavav.

US shippers are increasingly setting up warehouses and distribution centers in the Lehigh Valley, from which they are a 60- to 80-mile dray from the Port of New York and New Jersey.

The trend has been underway in earnest for some time.

China's Belt and Road is projected to generate an additional $2.5 trillion in global trade over the next 10 years.

The Canadian intermodal network has been bulking up as if on steroids.

A leading European barge operator is imposing a congestion surcharge in Antwerp and Rotterdam.

The changing landscape for international intermodal rail reflects the fierce competition among US East Coast ports to attract away from the West Coast discretionary cargo into and out of points east of the Ohio Valley.

Improvement came despite supply chain disruptions caused by the June 27 cyber attack on Maersk Group.

The recent cyber attack on the Maersk Group made existing congestion worse.

DB Logistics said it plans to operate five services a week carrying up to 200 cars by the end of the year.

The acquisition of Paris-based NACCO, Europe’s fourth-largest rail rental group, will boost Hamburg-based VTG’s fleet by 14,000 rail wagons.

Forwarders continue to pile into the China-Europe rail network, offering new multimodal services.

Renovation of the port’s low-water ro-ro dock follows the completion in 2016 of a two-year, $13 million rebuilding of the main dock at the Tulsa-Catoosa port.

The challenge with chassis shortages is that they are just as chronic and pervasive as they are nuanced.

Ceva initiated its China-Europe rail operation with a service from Suzhou in 2010.

Rail tracks end long before e-commerce's last mile, but Amazon.com has many "touch points" at Union Pacific Railroad, Beth Whited says.

Alameda Corridor authority will not seek accelerated fee increases or port assistance despite slower cargo volume gains.

Although May’s inventory-to-sales ratio, the final test for the theory, is still unavailable, other factors suggest the turnaround has begun.

Union Pacific brings domestic intermodal rail to the ICTF near LA-LB ports.

The Russian economic recovery is driving dramatic increases in ocean shipping freight rates.

The new track will also help raise rail’s share of hinterland container traffic.

Shippers believe the deal has the potential to lower the cost of rail shipping.