The Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) represents more than 1,000 freight stakeholders including railroads, steamship lines, motor carriers, ports, marine terminal operators and ...

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1994 was a pivotal year for the global supply chain as NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, took effect. It was also when Amazon was founded and the World Wide Web became easily accessible ...

Includes more than 8,000 trucking companies and over 48,000 drivers. Uses 715,000 chassis and 2 million containers. Makes 98 million drayage and 19 million truckload hauls of more than 500 miles ...

Freight rail’s enhanced productivity has made rail more competitive in the movement of intermodal domestic cargo. This, in turn, allows the trucking industry, which has been plagued by driver ...

This story appears in the Jan. 31 print edition of Transport Topics. FedEx Freight, the second-largest less-than-truckload carrier in the nation, said it plans to use rail intermodal service for the ...

Logistics Park Kansas City, or LPKC, in Edgerton, Kan., is an intermodal powerhouse, put on the map by BNSF’s recently finished $250 million intermodal terminal. File photo The Star Infrastructure is ...

There are opportunities to reduce freight-related emissions in intermodal, according to a new report from the North American Council for Freight Efficiency. While intermodal carriers such as J.B. Hunt ...

This story appears in the Sept. 26 print edition of Transport Topics. HOUSTON — Intermodal businesses that have become accustomed to long-term growth likely are facing tougher times ahead in the form ...

Intermodal transportation offers a solution to the chronic truck driver shortage, as well as frequent shortages of capacity for over-the-road hauls. Why, then, isn’t intermodal commanding a bigger ...