Intermodal

4 Common Sea and Air Freight Challenges of Australian Importers Solved with Buyer's Consolidation.

A White Paper Sponsored by the Association of American Railroads and the Intermodal Association of North America.

Through record-high investments and a keen focus on service, rail and intermodal providers are still delivering on their service promise to shippers - and doing it with improved efficiency.

There are circumstances when trucking alone is the best option for your shipment, but it’s worth taking a look at the opportunities and additional advantages that intermodal could create for your company!

While intermodal and truckload are similar services, each has strengths that complement one another for a stronger 53' capacity solution. Shippers not looking at these strengths are leaving money and capacity on the table.

Despite the difficulties of monitoring trends in an industry as large and diverse as trucking, the American Trucking Associations (ATA) continues to proactively monitor the challenges facing the trucking industry.

Intermodal can be a key ingredient to any transportation strategy to move an organization toward a multimodal strategy for scalability, flexibility, mitigation of risk and business continuity.

All eyes are on Congress regarding funding to keep the U.S. government open. If the government does shutdown, between 800,000 and 2.1 million employees across the federal government will not be at work. This will include some who work to keep our freight moving safely across the country and the world.

Today’s savviest logistics practitioners are driving out costs from the transportation system and creating new “omni-channel” distribution networks designed to take advantage of customers’ changing buying habits. The results of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals’ 24th Annual State of Logistics Report, co-sponsored by Penske Logistics, shows that the sharpest logistics management professionals are saving their companies millions in transport, warehouse, and shipping costs.

Alicia Dale, Sales and Marketing Coordinator with IDS Logistics interviews Shelli Austin on what her thoughts and takeaways were on the MARS event, why Intermodal is 'Exploding', and why it's become a huge industry focus, and why IDS offers a unique Intermodal solution to our clients.

Rail and intermodal continue to improve service and create value for shippers despite an uneven economy engulfed in an atmosphere of political uncertainty. Our panel of top analysts maintains that the railroads are only looking at extending their lead.

You make your business decisions on the best information you can. But it’s easy to be held back by assumptions that don’t always hold up. Busting the following two major myths and constituent assumptions will help you make the best decisions you can with regard to choosing a logistics company.

The Northwest Ohio Intermodal Terminal is truly a state-of-the-art facility unlike any the world has seen before. It's a revolution in rail that serves the millions of Americans who rely on the products carried on CSX's intermodal network.

This is Norfolk Southern’s fifth annual corporate sustainability report. It discloses the railroad’s significant environmental, economic, and social impacts to provide stakeholders a way to assess our commitment to corporate sustainability.

See how Norfolk Southern is working to help solve the nation's transportation crisis, relieve highway congestion, save fuel, improve safety, and protect the environment. The Crescent Corridor is Norfolk Southern's most ambitious public-private partnership.

Rail investments have often had a significant level of public investment. Investing public money in projects that would help a private company grow its revenues could be seen as a boondoggle. However, there are two such projects that I support, the National Gateway project and the Crescent Corridor.

Intermodal shipping has been growing at unprecedented speed over the course of the last several decades. Whether your goal is to cut costs or improve efficiency in your supply chain, Intermodal could be the answer.

In a move designed to drive intermodal drayage efficiencies and provide incremental capacity, freight transportation and logistics services providers Pacer International Inc. and CRST International recently announced they have inked multi-modal dedicated drayage agreements.

Whether you’re shipping auto brakes, consumer appliance parts, paper or simply packaging material, there are incredible intricacies to cross-border transit – from documentation standards and customs issues, to specific requirements for certain types of shipments. To help, we’ve put together this strategy guide for making your intermodal shipments into Mexico smoother.