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Intermodal
Drayage vs Intermodal: Explaining Two Connected Transportation Modes
Efficient logistics rely on different modes of transportation to move freight smoothly from one point to another. Two crucial methods are drayage and intermodal transportation, each serving distinct roles in the supply chain. Both methods handle goods efficiently but differ in scope and purpose. Drayage focuses on short-distance transport, often between transportation hubs like rail […]
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Digital Twins Gaining Ground; Intermodal Projects Get Green Light; More Supply Chain News
What’s shaping the future of the global supply chain? Digital twins, disruption mitigation, intermodal investments, and AI, among others.
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Ports Update: New Strategies for a New Age
In the post-pandemic era, U.S. ports are steering new courses toward improving sustainability, collaboration, and infrastructure efforts.
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CEVA Logistics Sends Formula One Cargo by Rail Intermodal
CEVA Logistics engineered a rail transport solution in North America for Scuderia Ferrari’s F1 racing team.
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How to Leverage Rail Intermodal
Intermodal shipping presents challenges, but it also offers great opportunities and benefits. Follow these strategies to help ensure your intermodal shipments move as cost-effectively and efficiently as possible.
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Intermodal Adds Value
Intermodal solutions boost shippers’ options and offer key advantages. Here’s why intermodal transport remains key to efficiency and how one port stacks up advantages.
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Five Factors to Consider: Intermodal or Truck
2022’s capacity crunch is in the rearview mirror, but it’s never too early to plan for the next upcycle. Here’s how to choose your optimal ground transportation mode.
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Rail to the Rescue?
When the supply chain turns volatile and the trucking market grows tough, can these alternatives to over-the-road transportation save the day?
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What Is Intermodal Transportation? History, Benefits, Examples
Intermodal transportation is not as mysterious or complicated as the name would have it sound. It means transporting one set of goods in a steel container using two or more modes of transportation, such as rail and truck.
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Ensuring Customers’ Supply Chains Run as Smoothly as Possible
Q: What are The Logistix Company’s (TLC) core business units and areas of focus? A: TLC got its start working closely with distribution companies moving liquid bulk chemicals. After time, we expanded our business to moving a multitude of commodities in bulk tankers, dry vans, intermodally via rail, repackaging, warehousing, and international freight forwarding. Q: […]
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Intermodal is Just the Ticket
With rail facility and infrastructure upgrades nailed down and intermodal network improvements on track, these ports and sites are riding high on intermodal’s advantages.
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New Multimodal Hub in Georgia Provides Supply Chain Solutions
Tradition Logistics’ new facility in Savannah, Georgia, offers comprehensive supply chain and logistics solutions, from warehousing and inventory management to fulfillment and distribution.
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Deploying an End-to-End Solution for a Manufacturer’s Product Launch
Faced with a considerable supply chain challenge—a large-scale product launch—a manufacturer turned to Hub Group for a holistic, end-to-end approach, from drayage to fulfillment, that also enables expansion.
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The (Not So) Hidden Benefits of Intermodal
Shippers that turn to intermodal can ease capacity challenges and save money on long-haul shipments unburdened by pressing deadlines.
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Idaho Sprouts Its First Intermodal Terminal
Pocatello, Idaho, recently welcomed the Savage Rail Port of Southern Idaho, the state’s first intermodal hub, to the area. The new terminal helps local farmers export their goods to global markets. Agricultural products, such as hay and produce, are loaded into shipping containers and brought to the rail yard, where a machine stacks them on […]
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Train or Truck? Ocean or Air? Choosing the Right Mode
Here’s some practical advice for deciding how to ship your load, in normal and new normal times.
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Rail Transportation: What Shippers Need to Focus On
Q: How have the recent rail mergers changed the rail landscape for shippers? A: Shippers have been averse to rail mergers due to concerns of a reduction in competition, imposed routing limitations, and an increase in service disruptions. The two most recent mergers between the CSXT-Pan Am Railway and Canadian National-Kansas City Southern are still […]
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Intermodal Meets the Moment
In a supercharged supply chain, intermodal’s value grows more evident than ever. These standout companies are contributing to its bright future.
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Intermodal Bounces Back
Strong intermodal volumes will continue as retailers replenish their inventories, says CSX Transportation and Canadian National Railway (CN). Intermodal traffic, which halted with the rest of rail volume when the pandemic began, bounced back faster than carload volumes and is surpassing 2019 levels. U.S. intermodal volume was up 10% and CN’s intermodal business was up […]
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