Intermodal In The News

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February, 2024 16
Journal of Commerce

Another Mexico intermodal option launches for shippers amid cross-border growth

Intermodal shippers have another option to send cargo between Mexico and the US using domestic containers through brokers. Run Rail, a wholesaler with 650 containers working with non-asset intermodal marketing companies (IMCs), has begun to offer service in Mexico through Ferromex and BNSF Railway. Chris Joslyn, Ru

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January, 2024 31
Journal of Commerce

Gemini alliance a sign of wider changes within container shipping industry

In subtle but telltale ways, the formation of the Gemini Cooperation between Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd announced on Jan. 17 showed how container shipping — and the world around it — is changing.

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January, 2024 10
Progressive Railroading

Intermodal, trucking industries decry DOL rule on gig workers

The new rule to classify independent contractors as employees will exacerbate the shortage of qualified truck drivers, IANA officials say.

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December, 2023 01
American Journal of Transportation/Bloomberg

SHIPPING GIANTS WANT AN END DATE FOR FOSSIL FUEL-ONLY VESSELS

Europe’s biggest container lines want to phase out ships powered only by fossil fuels.

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October, 2023 30
NY Times

SHIPPING CONTRIBUTES HEAVILY TO CLIMATE CHANGE. ARE GREEN SHIPS THE SOLUTION?

The container shipping lines that carry the bulk of global trade are betting on greener technologies, but there are still reasons those wagers could fail.

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September, 2023 25
Transport Topics

FREIGHT BROKERS ADJUST AS MARKET POWER SWINGS TO SHIPPERS

Throughout the pandemic-influenced years of 2020 through 2022, when demand for trucks soared and capacity evaporated, third-party logistics providers and freight brokers assuaged shippers by simply locating a truck for their freight.

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