Intermodal Logistics Review with Greg Oberting, Rail Modal Group

In this podcast, Rail Modal Group's Oberting discussed various topics, including its apprcoach in providing intermodal logistics services for agriculture shippers, the benefits of intermodal, and the markets it serves, among others. 

Rail Modal Group, is an intermodal logistics provider, operating a network of privately-operated intermodal terminals providing services to inland containerized export shippers. It is a subsidiary of NORAG LLC, a trading, supply chain, and transportation company with a 40-year history of providing solutions in the agriculture, material handling, warehousing, and logistics industries. 

Greg is Founder and CEO of Rail Modal Group, an intermodal logistics provider. RMG developed a network of privately operated intermodal terminals providing services to inland containerized export shippers.  In cooperation with the BNSF Railway, RMG currently operates three intermodal ramps at Fremont Nebraska and Amarillo, Texas, and Minot, ND.

Multiple ocean carriers reposition trainloads of empty containers from surplus locations in Chicago Illinois, Memphis Tennessee, Dallas Texas, and other origins offering extensive export capacity.  The outbound departures offer multiple weekly services to coordinate with vessel sailings from the Ports of Long Beach, Los Angeles, and Oakland California. Minot trains depart weekly for Port of Seattle WA. This strategy of 1st mile source loading for end to end sustainable shipments delivered a reduction of over 15 million US highway miles.