Rail News

American Railcar Industries today announced that James Cowan, president and CEO of the hopper and tank railcar manufacturer, has resigned to “pursue other interests.”

Florida East Coast Railway has announced that its $53 million, 42.5-acre intermodal container transfer facility at Port Everglades is making progress and is expected to open in mid-2014.

Adani Hazira Container Terminal and state-owned rail operator Container Corp. of India have reached an agreement to ensure an intermodal route connecting Tughlakabad and Dadri...

Hub Group has lowered its expectations for the third quarter of 2013 to a range of 48 to 51 cents diluted earnings per share.

Indian Railways, which implemented a 15.0 percent “busy season” surcharge on Oct. 1 on all bulk commodities, is again revising its freight tariff.

Freightliner has run its first service out of London Gateway to collect import containers destined for the Midlands in England.

BNSF Railway plans to spend an estimated $90 million on track and rail capacity improvement projects in New Mexico this year.

Grupo TMM has completed the sale of its truck and auto hauling assets and operations.

Indian Railways has announced a 15 percent hike in its freight charges for all bulk commodities, effective Oct. 1, as part of a “busy season tariff adjustment.”

Rising costs for truckers in Mexico will drive more U.S.-bound freight from highways to rail networks, fueling strong intermodal growth, a Kansas City Southern Railway executive told the JOC Inland Distribution Conference.

Canadian National aims to start freight service on about 75 percent of the rail network operated by the bankrupt short line Kelowna Pacific Railway in southern British Columbia.

U.S. intermodal pricing is expected to rise next year, largely because the competing trucking industry will have to increase its own rates as capacity tightens and overall freight demand slowly but steadily builds.

The intermodal industry in the coming years will have to learn to live with at least several different chassis models, but one thing for certain is that the cost of handling containers at railyards will increase.

The Canadian railway industry carried 27.0 million metric tons of freight in July, a 1.8 percent year-over-year decline, according to Statistics Canada.

When the South Carolina Ports Authority broke ground for an inland port at Greer, S.C., it implemented a strategy that was based upon securing an anchor tenant and linking that exporter to the Port of Charleston with multi-modal transportation options that include short-haul rail.

U.S. District Court Judge John R. Adams has issued a temporary restraining order in Akron, Ohio, ending a strike by workers with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen...

More than 100 members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen today struck the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway to protest...

Marta R. Stewart will succeed John P. Rathbone as executive vice president and chief financial officer for Norfolk Southern Corp., effective Nov. 1. She will report to NS President James A. Squires.

A prominent trucking industry executive warned that operational changes at rail ramps and other inland locations because of the accelerating exit of ocean carriers from the chassis business are placing added stress on the fragile intermodal drayage industry.

Kansas City Southern Railway’s cross-border intermodal volume will continue to expand not just because of Mexican manufacturing growth, but because of the strong advantage rail has over the trucking industry south of the border, Patrick Ottensmeyer, chief marketing officer at the railroad, told conferees Wednesday at The Journal of Commerce's Inland Distribution Conference in Kansas City.

The U.S. Surface Transportation Board has adopted its final rules establishing disclosure requirements for rail transactions involving interchange agreements.

Although flooding in Colorado is winding down as heavy rains have begun subsiding, Mexico has declared a state of emergency after being battered by storms...

RoadOne IntermodaLogistics expanded its drayage and intermodal brokerage network by acquiring drayage operator Intermodal Inc.

With consumer demand moderate at best three years after the deepest recession in decades, major U.S. shippers aren’t rushing to add distribution and warehousing space at the clusters of distribution centers around coastal seaports. Momentum appears to be accelerating at inland ports.

Inland ports aren’t just a U.S. phenomenon. Industrial real estate developments anchored by intermodal connections and access to highways are expanding in Mexico and Canada, too.

The National Gateway coalition has finished its first phase, launching double-stack intermodal rail service between CSX’s existing terminal in Chambersburg, Penn., and its hub facility in...

William R. Costantini has been named vice president and chief transportation officer for Florida East Coast Railway (FEC), effective Sept. 16.

The high cost of shipping Midwest grain by rail to the West Coast is restricting containerized grain exports to Asia, according to a Cargill executive.

Union Pacific has unveiled Arrowedge, a new employee-designed, pilot technology for fuel and locomotive emissions reductions on double-stack intermodal freight trains.

That BNSF Railway refrigerated boxcar trains will begin hauling eggs next year is just another sign of just how far reefer train service has come and the awaiting potential.

Haven’t seen much of a peak season on the highways and rails? You’re not alone. Growing evidence suggests the freight surge ahead of the holidays is coming more in the spring for trucking and translating to spikes, not a peak, for intermodal rail carriers.

The privatization of PKP Cargo moved closer after the Polish state rail freight operator reached agreement with labor unions over its initial public offering.

Shippers face “significant” rate increases in the U.S. over the next few years unless they build more multimodal supply chains for domestic and inbound shipments, an investment analyst warns.

The Port of Felixstowe has reached a milestone, handling its 70 millionth 20-foot-equivalent unit since container operations began at the England port in the mid-1960s.

BNSF Railway has allocated $125 million for maintenance and rail capacity expansion projects in Washington this year.

Norfolk Southern will hike its domestic intermodal rates in September.

Tampa Port Authority has signed a letter of intent with Green Express for the development of an on-dock transload and rail-served facility connecting the port to the Midwest.

Indian Railways reported revenue-earning freight traffic in July totaled 86.21 million metric tons, up 4.9 percent or 4.0 million metric tons from 82.21 million metric tons in the same month in 2012.

BNSF Railway has allocated $115 million for Montana and $220 million for North Dakota for maintenance and rail capacity expansion projects this year.