The domestic intermodal industry has long been plagued by an inability to accurately track and report, in a timely manner, the status of a container in transit. Historically, that’s put intermodal at ...

Schneider National announced today, Dec. 16, that its Intermodal division has completed a three-year conversion project, replacing its mixed trailer/container fleet with an all-container fleet. The ...

Intermodal cargo is booming at the nation’s ports. The Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach both reported record levels of cargo. Georgia's Port of Savannah hit its highest annual volume ...

Just released research from telecom business intelligence firm Berg Insight shows that although tracking solutions for shipping and intermodal container solutions are still in their early stages, they ...

The precipitous drop in port volumes at the North American coastal ports is packing a one-two punch for the North American international intermodal sector. The escalation of canceled sailings is ...

One of the fastest-growing areas of hazardous materials transportation is that of intermodal containers. During 2003, a total of 9,502,563 intermodal containers were shipped by rail and 1,227,852 were ...

It's a picture perfect day in Kansas City, Missouri, and the echo of train horns can be heard for miles. A locomotive idles on the tracks, ready to lead a long procession of brightly colored ...

Q: I'm curious why I've never seen four 20-foot intermodal containers in a single well car, stacked two on top and two on the bottom. I've only ever seen two 20-foot containers in the well and a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walmart is offloading its intermodal assets to logistics and transportation services provider J.B. Hunt, as part of the companies’ ...

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A merger for Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern wouldn’t just take a step toward creating a transcontinental railroad—it would bring the lion’s share of the industry’s intermodal container traffic ...

Boeing has patented a design for an airplane that can pick up and carry containers in its belly, Popular Mechanics reported. In the patent, the plane is able to lower itself onto a row of standardized ...