US rail transportation of petroleum and petroleum products for the week ended January 4 totaled 13,967 cars, up 20.2% from the same week a year ago, the Association of American Railroads said Thursday. US railroads saw a 2.1% year-on-year ...
Intermodal freight rail traffic in Canada and the United States picked up steam in 2013, according to newly figures released by the Association of American Railroads. Canadian railroads reported a total volume of 4,083,936 carloads in ...
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U.S. intermodal rail traffic rose 4.6% last year from 2012 to just over 12.8 million units, the Association of American Railroads reported Jan. 2. Intermodal volume for the week ended Dec. 28 jumped 10.6% from a year ago to 172,396 units, ...
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U.S. intermodal shipments by rail grew 6.4% in the week ended Dec. 21 compared with the same week last year, the Association of American Railroads reported. Traffic grew to 255,456 units, AAR said in its weekly report issued Dec. 26. ...
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It must be tough to find a seat on flights between Brazil and Beijing these days.One Chinese delegation after another has visited Brazilian soybean-producing states to cut deals,and farmers from the largest of those states,Mato Grosso,went ...
U.S.rail intermodal traffic set a record last week of 12.4 million shipments in a year,surpassing the previous mark of 12.28 million set in 2006. The record was reached in the 50th week of its freight reporting year. The Association of ...
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Arch Coal, Inc. (NYSE:ACI) today announced that Tygart Valley's Leer mine in northern West Virginia has begun operating its longwall mining system, representing a major milestone in the development of the overall mining complex. The Leer ...
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The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Thursday increased US rail traffic for November 2013 over November 2012. Intermodal traffic in November totaled 1,007,549 containers and trailers, up 7.8 percent (73,004 units) compared ...
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Noel Perry of FTR Associates is holding up four fingers and one thumb. He had asked a room full of Ontario trucking executives, rhetorically, “how many dry van carriers or reefer carriers have the capability to bid - in a big way - on ...
US rail transportation of petroleum and petroleum products for the week ended November 16 totaled 15,523 cars, up 21.6% from the year-ago week, the Association of American Railroads said Thursday. Petroleum and petroleum product shipments ...
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CSX Corporation (NYSE: CSX) and GE Transportation, a division of GE (NYSE: GE) today announced an agreement to explore emissions-cutting and efficiency breakthroughs in Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) technology for locomotives beginning with a ...
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CSX Corporation (NYSE: CSX) and GE Transportation, a division of GE (NYSE: GE) today announced an agreement to explore emissions-cutting and efficiency breakthroughs in Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) technology for locomotives beginning with a ...
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The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Thursday increased US rail traffic for October 2013.Intermodal traffic in October totaled 1,317,601 containers and trailers, up 6.8 percent (84,120 units) compared with October 2012. The ...
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Transportation of petroleum and petroleum products by rail in the US in the week that ended Saturday totaled 13,098 cars, up 19.6% compared with the year-ago period, the Association of American Railroads said Thursday. In the year to ...
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Lisle, Illinois-based Suncoke Energy Partners, LP announced Tuesday that its wholly-owned subsidiary executed a definitive agreement to acquire 100 percent of the ownership interest in Kanawha River Terminals LLC (KRT) for $86 million. KRT ...
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