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AAR President and CEO Jefferies Addresses State of the Freight Railroad Market

In this podcast, Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman interviewed Ian Jefferies, President and CEO of the Washington, D.C.-based Association of American Railroads (AAR).

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AAR President and CEO Jefferies Addresses State of the Freight Railroad Market
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Ian Jefferies, President and CEO of the Washington, D.C.-based Association of American Railroads (AAR), returned to our podcast to discuss the current state of the North American freight railroad and intermodal sectors.

Themes focused on over the course of this podcast included: freight railroad and intermodal volumes; freight railroad safety initiatives; and freight railroad service, among others.

Jefferies started in his role leading the AAR in January 2019 and prior to that he served as the senior vice president of AAR’s government affairs, overseeing the development, promotion, and implementation of legislative priorities for the AAR. And before joining the AAR, Jefferies served as a senior policy advisor to the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, from 2009-2013.


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George Kokoris
Jeff Berman is Group News Editor for Logistics Management, Modern Materials Handling, and Supply Chain Management Review and is a contributor to Robotics 24/7. Jeff works and lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, where he covers all aspects of the supply chain, logistics, freight transportation, and materials handling sectors on a daily basis.
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