ID Systems, a provider of wireless M2M asset management solutions, has entered into a contract with one of the largest truckload carriers in North America to deploy its VeriWise Intermodal Cellular ...
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 ...
ROCHELLE PARK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ORBCOMM Inc. (Nasdaq:ORBC), a global provider of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) solutions, today announced a multi-year agreement with Hub Group, Inc. (Hub Group) ...
Boeing has patented a design for an airplane that can pick up and carry containers in its belly, Popular Mechanics reported. In the patent, the plane is able to lower itself onto a row of standardized ...
TONIGHT WITH WHAT IT COULD BRING TO THE AREA. THE INTERMODAL PORT ULWO USE THE ARKANSAS RIVER, NEARBY INTERSTATES AND RAILROADS TO LOAD AND UNLOAD CARGO CONTAINERS. IT'S BEEN PLANNED FOR MORE THAN 10 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hub Group (CCJ Top 250, No. 34) is purchasing the intermodal assets of refrigerated heavyweight Marten Transport (No. 37). The $51.8 million acquisition of Marten Intermodal adds 1,200 refrigerated ...
The first small wave of container ships was arriving at U.S. West Coast ports as this was written in late April, bearing goods that will be assessed import tariff duties. What’s this going to result ...
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 ...
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 ...