News / Intermodal wrangles just making the pain worse for US shippers using rail

29/08/2018

For long-suffering rail customers in the US, further grief is on the horizon.

From September 17, those which have to move traffic across Chicago on Union Pacific and CSX will face a costly slalom on nearly 200 routes.

The two Class One rail companies are scrapping transfers on ...

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Aaron
August 29, 2018 at 7:43 pm
The shipping industry needs a change.

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Richard Hagemeyer
August 30, 2018 at 3:19 pm
The lead off paragraphs in this article could have been factually presented but was not. It is full of scare, fear and innuendo. As someone who has been in intermodal shipping in the US for 30 years, I realize that articles like this are way Europeans do not understand America’s freight rail system. The event discussed is an attempt by CSX to fix the problem this writer is shaking his head over. Oh well.

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Lewis Johnson
September 18, 2018 at 2:24 pm
Looks like the prices will be rising again.

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