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…
No March madness in 2019. It was a difficult month overall, but the fundamental issues seem to be on the Domestic side. Share is dropping.…
After experiencing the disruption caused by the electronic logging device (ELD) mandate in 2018, US shippers and truckers could be forgiven if they are looking…
The party’s over for international as pre-tariff surge ends. Domestic Container volume was very weak raising concerns regarding the rail fleet. Headlines: International activity declined…
In recent months, the pace of growth in intermodal domestic container loadings has been slowing. But the top-line figure has masked a significant divergence in…
Rampant port terminal congestion, particularly in the key ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach continues as of this writing, and the contagion is spreading inland. The…
International remained strong (for one last month?) but domestic container activity showed serious issues, especially on the rail-owned side. Situation unchanged: International activity was again…
As a new year for US transportation begins, the question of what’s to come inevitably comes to the fore. Forintermodal, 2018 was a good year, the…
The performance of the North American intermodal sector often is dramatically affected by exterior market forces. That was certainly the case in late 2017 when…