Rail News

Pending US trucking regulations may play a significant role in market share of trucking and intermodal industries.

The vice president of international logistics at retailer Target, Joshua Dolan, will lead a coalition dedicated to increasing supply chain efficiency.

Five prominent industry executives address the soft international and domestic intermodal market, the impact of ocean alliances and consolidation, and what the industry needs to do to improve supply chain efficiency.

BNSF Railway plans to launch a new, faster intermodal service that promises to reduce transit times between the Pacific Northwest and Texas.

North American railroads are sending mixed messages to shippers coping with the fallout of the recent Hanjin Shipping line collapse.

DB Cargo and BMW have signed a multi-year contract in another sign of shippers’ attraction to China-Europe containerized rail.

The locomotive manufacturer extends its reach beyond railroads to shippers by buying cloud-based supply chain software firm.

Indian trade unions are going ahead with a strike planned for Friday despite government concessions.

VTG boosted first-half profit the group benefited from lower financing costs and synergies from the acquisition of a rival company.

U.S. exporters are bracing for what could be another historic harvest this year.

A new white paper commissioned by the Van Horne Institute and completed by JOC outlines how Canada can build on its success in creating inland ports.

JNPT is the first major, or public, port to take advantage of a new policy under the Sagar Mala infrastructure development program.

Retailer tightens control over delivery times, flow of inventory from warehouses as e-commerce grows.

Truck and rail traffic in Southern California back to normal after wildfire contained.

The new agreement highlights how Savannah, along with a handful of other U.S. ports, are tapping intermodal rail networks connected to inland hubs

The continued closure of at least one railway line and a highway disrupted the flow of containers to and from the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles Friday in the fourth day of a savage wildfire wreaking havoc in the northeast Los Angeles area.

DP World views containerized rail as a bright spot in the emerging Asian economy.

A major North American intermodal group isn’t expecting a dramatic rebound in business next year.

A wildfire northeast of Los Angeles continued to disrupt the flow of containers to and from the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles Thursday, but road and rail traffic was less affected than Wednesday, officials said.

The Chinese Olympic team wasn’t the only group of visitors from the manufacturing powerhouse in Brazil this month.

The Blue Cut wildfire, which cut off road and rail traffic in the Cajon Pass, northeast of L.A. and the Inland Empire, is causing shipping detours and delays.

Shippers can now tap a new door-to-door intermodal rail service connecting the U.S. and eastern Canada.

The move will help G&W, a railway highly dependent on now-slumping carload traffic, tap into an intermodal customer base via connections to Class I carriers moving cargo to and from the East Coast’s busiest port terminals in New York and New Jersey.

State-owned Container Corporation of India’s net earnings slumped by double digits in the first fiscal quarter.

The so-called freight recession in North America may soon be coming to an end.

Drayage bottlenecks have long been a drag on growth at Chennai.

Although Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust has maintained shippers are increasingly turning to rail instead of drayage, an analysis of the latest port traffic data collected by JOC.com paints a different picture.

BNSF Railway will appeal last week’s California Superior Court ruling that the environmental impact report on a proposed near-dock rail yard is inadequate.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust is boasting of seamless gate operations and greater efficiency, bringing smiles to shippers.

U.S. freight projects this year received their lowest share ever from the TIGER federal grant program.

A teacher union blockade of freight rails in Mexico that trapped 4,000 thousands of containers in the key port of Lazaro Cardenas, and also some in Manzanillo, preventing them from moving in and out of the port, is over.

Shippers and railroads disagree about the merits of a new proposal from the U.S. Surface Transportation Board over so-called “reciprocal” or “competitive” switching.

SLIDE SHOW: Wind power shipments have emerged as one of the key growth sectors in breakbulk and project cargo shipping.

Deutsche Bahn’s restructuing efforts to restore profitability are beginning to show results.

BNSF has 60 days to decide whether to appeal latest court ruling involving the Southern California International Gateway.

The railway, Canada’s largest, said that traffic figures took a hit from weakened demand, but business was also curbed by challenges at Port Metro Vancouver.

Looking beyond the broader market, Hub Group sees share gain, more volume ahead.

Norfolk Southern railway’s results paint the near-final brushstrokes on the grim landscape that Class I railroads faced in the second quarter.

Russia’s container trade continues to rebound, sparking an intense competition between truckers and railroads.

The company is among North America’s largest providers of outsourced ocean container freight station services.