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CSX Transportation expects the upcoming intermodal peak season to kick in later than last year and not last as long, but says the peak will be “very strong.”

Canadian National Railway will spend more than $21 million (C$20 million) this year and next to expand the sidings of a key line that connects Toronto with Winnipeg, and takes freight from the big Wes

The rail freight economy is improving, the head of CSX Transportation said, and key customer sectors such as manufacturing point toward more growth despite persistent concerns about the broad directio

Second quarter profit at CSX Transportation jumped 22 percent to $506 million on just a 3 percent rise in freight traffic from a year earlier, highlighting the eastern U.S.

Former Massachusetts governor and presidential canidate Michael Dukakis said to invest in the future spending on infrastructure is key — even if requires increasing the fuel tax during the

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Uncertainty may pervade the economy recovery and its impact on freight networks, but if railcar and barge builder Greenbrier is any indication, demand is holding up just fine, and getting better.

In laying a formal petition before federal regulators, heavy freight rail shippers at the National Industrial Transportation League hope to crack open an iron grip major railroads hold on many facilit

Corsa Coal began sending trainloads of high-heat metallurgical coal out of its new Somerset, Pa., coal wash plant, generating export shipments for CSX Transportation.

North Carolina’s Aberdeen Carolina & Western Railway will be the exclusive project advisor to Gladstone Development on a recently acquired site developers hope boosts Charlotte's role as a r

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CSX Transportation is increasing its capital spending plan for this year to $2.2 billion, up from an initial $2 billion, as it locks in more orders for new railcars to haul export coal.

Freight carried by for-hire transportation carriers declined 1.8 percent in May from April to its lowest level since November, the Transportation Department’s Freight Transportation Services Ind

TransContainer, Russia’s largest rail container operator, boosted second quarter traffic by 13.9 percent compared to last year, as export volume growth outpaced domestic growth.

Kansas City Southern is receiving a $56 million insurance payment for lost profits and property damage last year from Hurricane Alex, which hit the railroad hard when it blew into Mexico.

As freight traffic began to recover from a spring slowdown, owners of parked railcars across North America pulled 2,847 units out of storage in June, nearly reversing the number of units they idled du

Container-on-barge service could be a $500 million business on the inland waterways, but the federal government hasn’t been willing to test the idea on a large scale to prove its value, accordin

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APL Logistics is offering double-stack container service in India and plans to expand its service as more rail corridors are approved for stacktrains.

Major railroads are warning customers that shipment delays, detours and track outages from the flooding Missouri River could last weeks longer, suggesting the river will have disrupted

Greenbrier Companies, one of North America’s major builders of freight railcars plus some barges, saw revenue soar 153 percent in its fiscal third quarter that ended May 31, mainly on the streng

The regulator of economic disputes between railroads and their freight shippers has slashed its filing fee structure, meaning rail customers can file a major challenge to freight rates for $350 instea

CMA CGM has started providing intermodal rail service between the Belgian port of Zeebrugge and the tri-modal hub in Duisburg, Germany.

CSX Transportation and Kansas City Southern, two of the seven largest freight railroads in North America, announced several executive staff changes taking place this week.

Those large blue boxes with the familiar APL logo that started appearing on U.S. highways and railroads in May aren’t ocean containers, though it’s tough to tell the difference.

After blocking Southern California port expansion projects for seven years and forcing ports to address air emissions health risks, the Natural Resources Defense Council is turning its attention to Ca

When you’re already battling historic floods on several rivers at once, any new rain surely pours.

Railroads are expanding their share of the North American freight market in non-traditional areas, with Canadian railroads becoming increasingly competitive in the U.S., eastern railroads returning to

APL IndiaLinx, which has been running container rail service in the country since 2007, double-stacked 90 40-foot boxes on a train from Mundra Port to an inland container rail terminal at Kishangarh,

Ocean carriers are offering a menu of new services to improve the supply chain efficiency and reduce the cost of delivering cargo from Asia to U.S.

Kombiverkehr, Europe’s biggest intermodal operator, reported traffic and revenue rose to near record levels in 2010 but warned infrastructure bottlenecks will slow growth this year.

Small railroads at mid-June posted their highest load volumes of 2011 for intermodal containers or trailers, stone aggregate used in construction and ores needed for metal production.

It may take federal investigators more than a year to determine why a truck driver smashed into an Amtrak train in Nevada Friday, killing at least six people.

There have been plenty of words, warnings and venting as freight shippers and railroads vie to win over rail regulators who could overhaul decades of federal policies.

Shipments of automobiles and other vehicles on North American railroads jumped to their highest point since mid-April in the week ending June 18, in a sign the auto industry is overcoming supply chain

A new agreement between Norfolk Southern Railway and the Illinois Department of Transportation will allow work to start on a Chicago rail project at what industry officials call one of the nation&rsqu

Activity in the industrial real estate sector is building after being in the doldrums for more than two years.

Intermodal infrastructure development in the United States is at a juncture that could lead to the development of a third generation of intermodal systems and services.

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