Containers offer a shipping method for small businesses that reduces theft, keeps the shipping load traveling together as a unit, and minimizes the likelihood of losing part of the cargo when shipped ...

Intermodal facilities are more complex than ever. Consumers are buying many goods, and businesses are finding efficient ways to transport these items. Intermodal refers to the movement of cargo in ...

DAT’s Trendlines weekly report looked back at total load volume for the months of June and July and saw for the first time since 1996, when DAT began tracking monthly stats spot market load volume for ...

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Shipping containers come from overseas to U.S. ports every day loaded full of imports like electronics, toys, footwear, clothes – just about anything you can buy in big box stores. But what happens to ...

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 ...

Hub Group sees the opportunity to gain 2.5 million intermodal loads from the watershed area in the country’s midsection if ...

This story appears in the Nov. 14 print edition of Transport Topics. Intermodal volumes declined in the third quarter because truck prices are lower than a year ago and that has diverted business away ...

A container truck loaded with straw pulls away from a pressing facility in Salem, Ore. Straw is one of the agricultural exports that would benefit from an intermodal facility that switches containers ...

MINOT, N.D. — They’re ramping up the intermodal “ramp” at Minot, N.D., a key piece of what could become very important as an international launching pad for specialty crop growers and exporters. Greg ...

Starting in 2018, Texas will increase the weight limits for trucks hauling intermodal containers, allowing loads up to 100,000 pounds to travel within a 30-mile radius of their point of entry on the ...