One of the potential growth areas for North American intermodal is Mexico, where the evolution of intermodal is still in the early stages. Although there…
The industry is being transformed by its adoption of the Precision Scheduled Railroading philosophy. Traffic is down thus far in 2019, but is a foundation…
Despite our hopes last month, the domestic situation has not yet stabilized, as volume per working day declined in July • Headlines: The situation deteriorated…
US domestic intermodal volume was down 6% year over year during the first half of 2019 and down 7.7% in the second quarter. Photo credit:…
June delivered the first, faint signs of stabilizing domestic results. But our market share analysis makes the extent of the damage already inflicted clear •…
The US Midwest is a major battleground for North American ports. This great concentration of population and commerce lies far from the nation’s coasts and…
Volume moved up from April to May, but more working days get the credit. International was lackluster but domestic was even worse. Headlines: Not a…
Several weeks ago, at an annual corporate retreat for an intermodal marketing company (IMC), sales reps from each of their three major Class I carriers…
The International lull is over, except for Southern California. Competitive issues for domestic intermodal deepen Headlines: It appears that the stop-start influences on International are…
On March 2, 2018, at 5:50 a.m., President Donald Trump tweeted, “When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually…