Intermodal shipping containers are used worldwide to transport goods from the most remote parts of the world to its biggest cities. However, few people know that a high-school-educated truck driver ...

CakeBoxx’s door-less intermodal cargo container is designed to reduce significant terrorism risks. Once the container is closed, CakeBoxx explained, nothing will get out or in, since the ...

For several decades, the intermodal shipping container has been the global standard for moving goods quickly and efficiently across all distances and, as its name suggests, by different modes of ...

If not for intermodal’s improved viability, the domestic surface transportation market would be much more challenging to navigate. Loaded container volumes are up 14% versus where they were in ...

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Don Schneider has put more trucks on the road than just about anyone. Now he’s looking for opportunities to take them off. The president of Schneider National of Green Bay, Wisc., says intermodal ...

An intermodal container weights between 5,000 and 8,000 pounds depending on its size. The Modal would be able to use the ground effect to lift them up and transport them over distances of a few miles.

The crane comes just like an intermodal dry container, picks up that frame, and sets it in the well car on the train.” Schneider is currently operating about 400 of these containers, up from the ...

Two new container ships are part of the long-term, multi-vessel agreement with Swire Shipping Pte. Ltd., to transport new containers. J.B. Hunt says it plans to grow its intermodal fleet to as many as ...

All US regions recorded increases in domestic container volume greater than 10% year-over-year while Canadian domestic container shipments were down 1.0%, hindering the overall growth rate.

TTX 40-foot well car 451033 has two 20-foot intermodal containers in the well and a 40-foot container on top. Learn why railroads avoid placing four 20-foot containers in a single car.

CP’s U.S. intermodal terminals are configured and operated as “grounded” facilities meaning that when a loaded container arrives at the terminal by rail it is placed on the ground in a staging area ...