Domestic News
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“It’s time to run another train east.” These are the exact words I used when working for the Southern Pacific Railroad as an Assistant Terminal Superintendent at the Roseville, Calif., terminal in 1969. This was “smart railroading” for most railroads in the 20th Century. Now, Precision Scheduled Railroading governs operating decisions on most railroads. |
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When freight moves across North America’s major railroads, shippers need to know the location of their cargo and its status. Cars in motion frequently pass Automatic Equipment Identification readers and other data collection devices. That information is instantaneously transmitted to rail industry systems and is available to railcar users in near real time. |
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Newly released U.S. Coast Guard video offers visceral proof of just how extreme the congestion has become at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The new view from above reveals a vast armada of container ships scattered at anchor across California’s San Pedro Bay. |
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Chinese factories stay open for Lunar New Year, potentially adding to shipping delays in what is shaping up as a ‘perpetual peak season’ |
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Watco Co. LLC has been named to Forbes' 2021 list of America’s Best Mid-Size Employers — the only transportation and supply chain services company to make the list. |
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CN's board announced yesterday it will seek an annual advisory vote on the company's climate action plan during the general meeting of shareholders in April. The plan includes annual disclosure of greenhouse-gas emissions aligned with the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures, a science-based 2030 emission intensity-reduction target, and annual progress updates. |
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Genesee & Wyoming Inc.'s U.S. industrial-development efforts in 2020 resulted in 45 new projects representing $1.6 billion in customer investments, the company announced yesterday. |
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The U.S. exported nearly 7.26 million metric tons of wood pellets in 2020, up 5 percent from the 6.92 million metric tons exported in 2019, according to data released by the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service on Feb. 5 |
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Wabtec officials on Saturday informed UE Local 506 leaders of an additional 40 layoffs at the Lawrence Park Township plant, union leaders announced in a UE Local 506 Facebook post. |
International News
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From next year, prices for freight railway undertakings using Polish infrastructure will increase by 2,3 per cent. The raise means that freight carriers will have to pay 13,09 PLN per tonne-km, instead of 12,80 PLN that they were paying so far. This was proposed by the Polish infrastructure manager PKP PLK, in the 2021/2022 pricing list for track access charges (TACs). To everyone’s surprise, despite this period of crisis and EU’s calls for waiving or reducing TACs, Poland decided to do the opposite. |
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Turkey has sent off the first batch of tank cars to be used for oil and fuel transportation by the Iraq Republic Railways, the country’s national railway operator. The delivery started on Saturday on the sidelines of a visit by Industry and Technology Minister Mustafa Varank in the northwestern Kocaeli’s Dilovası district. |
