Intermodal providers

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Intermodal service provider Hub Group reported a $10.5 million profit for the first quarter, up 21 percent from a year earlier.

Intermodal marketing giant Hub Group demonstrated its faith in the economic recovery last week with the $83 million acquisition of Exel Transportation Services.

The intermodal market is heating up so much that rate increases could be the strongest in a decade.

Intermodal marketer Hub Group expects overall U.S. intermodal pricing this year to rise 3 to 5 percent, driven by railroad charges, while long-haul trucking rates increase in the high single digits.

Supermarkets and shopping malls don’t have rail sidings, truckers love to point out, but the intermodal industry is moving steadily closer to the store floor.

North American shippers may be on the verge of a second intermodal revolution.

Shippers wondering if they can save money by transloading their imports from marine containers into domestic boxes should talk to Josh Owen.

A return to profitability is helping to sway cautious Wall Street analysts that Pacer International’s strategic shift from a wholesale middleman service to a company focused on moving containers

Pacer International, in the second round of major management changes in the last three months, announced new executive changes as the intermodal and logistics services provider transforms from primari

Leif Holm-Andersen, director of transportation and logistics at Arrow Electronics, has been using freight payment software for several years, and he wouldn’t dream of going back to old-fashioned proce