Union Pacific Thursday ceremonially commenced construction of its $370 million, 785-acre Joliet Intermodal Terminal in Illinois, saying the facility “will support customer growth by increasing the ...

Signs everywhere in Braceville, Illinois, say trains could come barreling through at 80 mph. But workers at the Union Pacific intermodal terminal in Joliet can’t always unload freight that fast. So ...

The use of ISO tank containers in transportation, particularly overseas in Europe and Asia, has grown exponentially over the last two decades, going from approximately 200,000 containers through the ...

Canadian Pacific President and CEO Keith Creel on Aug. 6 responded to Surface Transportation Board Chairman Marty Oberman’s July 22 letter to Class I railroad CEOs requesting information on the extent ...

ORBCOMM Inc, a global provider of machine-to-machine (M2M) systems, announced a multi-year agreement with Hub Group Inc to deploy ORBCOMM’s GT 2300 state-of-the-art intermodal container tracking and ...

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 ...

The intermodal container business has allowed many companies to shift longer-haul freight to rails in the face of tight capacity and a driver shortage. But in recent years, Schneider and a handful of ...