Rail News

Truck traffic between the U.S. and Mexico this week skirted flood waters from the Rio Grande with little or no disruption, federal agencies reported.

Intermodal container volume for North American railroads reached its highest level in nearly three years in the week ending July 3 as overall intermodal loads soared 36.6 percent over the holiday-shor

Maher Terminals is taking an unspecified stake in a long-planned container terminal Melford International Terminal hopes to build in Nova Scotia.

A large part of North America’s railcar surplus is literally melting away.

Shipper complaint cases against railroads are piling up at the Surface Transportation Board, despite the latter’s efforts to head them off through mediation.

CMA CGM Nears Billion-Dollar Deal

Publicly traded airlines, railroads, trucking companies and ocean carriers based in North America are showing improved results despite expectations for a sluggish U.S.

Short line RailAmerica will buy Atlas Railroad Construction for $24 million in a purchase aimed at giving the freight railroad a greater stake in projected investment in railroad infrastructure, the c

U.S. railroads will reap the benefits of the economic recovery more quickly than truckers, Moody’s Investors Service said in a report.

Kansas City Southern Railway said David L. Starling will move up to CEO effective Aug. 1 while longtime Chairman and CEO Michael R. Haverty takes the new position of executive chairman.

M.D. "Mike" Stolzman has been promoted to president of Pacific Harbor Line, the railroad that performs switching services at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Mark A. Yeager has a message for intermodal shippers trying to plan out their year: Capacity is tight and will only get tighter leading up to autumn’s peak season.

Intermodal traffic at major North American railroads continued to grow into mid-June, setting a new peak for the recovery and rising 5 percent from four weeks earlier.

Buying Binge Drives Up Box Prices

Canadian Pacific Railway signed new productivity and performance agreements with the two intermodal terminals at the big container port of Port Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, in deals the partners

Norfolk Southern Railway’s long-awaited project to carve a double-stack intermodal train corridor through the Appalachian Mountains just got a bit longer, as the company got approval from Ohio t

The UK's new government said it will sell off state-owned rail, aviation and postal assets as part of a deficit reduction program.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood expects to quickly nail down some accords with Class I freight railroads, to spur intercity passenger rail development and begin using some of the billions in stimu

U.S.

In moves that reflect the improvement Kansas City Southern has been making in its finances, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services raised its rating on long-term KCS debt to BB from B and took the rai

The Port of Amsterdam said the Betuweroute rail connection was completed this week, giving the port a dedicated cargo rail track towards Germany and into Europe.

Five days after a 28-car derailment, CSX is prepared to reopen a rail line in Porter County, Ind., according to local news reports.

The top seven railroads in the U.S. added just 218 jobs from mid-April to mid-May, the smallest increase since the Class I carriers began adding jobs in February.

In his June 10 speech to the National Industrial Transportation League, Rep. James L. Oberstar outlined some of the features he and Sen. Jay Rockefeller plan to produce in the new rail law.

U.S. rail shippers for years tried to get Congress to act on their complaints and toughen federal rules over rates and service from the nation’s few remaining major long-haul lines.

Europe’s logistics industry is emerging leaner and fitter from double-digit declines in revenue and earnings spawned by the worst economic and trade recession since World War II.

Congress Reconsiders Liability Limits

The nation’s highest court will decide whether Alabama can keep collecting a 4 percent sales and use tax on diesel fuel used by railroads, or whether that levy discriminates against rail lines b

Barges boosted their share of container transport to and from Rotterdam’s hinterland last year while rail lost three years of growth.

Canadian National Railway and container facility operator TSI Terminal Systems inked what they called a “supply chain collaboration agreement” aimed at improving turnaround times for conta

When the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach sneeze, the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority catches a cold.

Rail freight data is flashing new warning signals about the strength of industrial demand for raw materials even as intermodal traffic expands.

Tariffs As Business Tools

Maersk Introduces Priority Shipping

As debate rages in Washington about how to pay for infrastructure expansion and modernization, one need look no further than the Alameda Corridor for how much-debated and controversial user fees can w

Rep. James L.

BNSF Railway will replace its entire bridge over the Mississippi River at Burlington, Iowa, to tap into low construction costs in the recovering economy and a major upgrade of one section that is alre

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and representatives from Class I railroads met Wednesday to discuss building a nationwide high-speed rail network, the secretary said.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood may want to get more diesel-guzzling trucks off the road, but he says that doesn’t mean he undervalues the trucking industry.

The U.S. must find more “innovative” ways to fund infrastructure projects, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Thursday.