Domestic News
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Moving freight by rail is the most environmentally friendly mode of ground transport, with the average U.S. railroad moving one ton of freight 470 miles per gallon of fuel. |
Union Pacific is going to be the intermodal carrier for Schneider National in the western part of the U.S. beginning in 2023. |
BNSF is asking a federal court to classify the railroad’s tussle with two rail unions over a new company attendance policy as a “minor dispute,” which would prevent the unions from striking. |
Union Pacific is pressing local and state officials to help it with a spike of robberies occurring on the railroad’s property in Los Angeles. |
Parallel, founded by three former SpaceX engineers, said the funding round is led by Anthos Capital, and includes investments from Congruent Ventures, Riot Ventures, Embark Ventures and others. |
Blume Global’s free-of-charge freight scheduler is “cloud-native digital platform” that allows intermodal users to better coordinate cross-country rail freight deliveries. |
On Dec. 17, the Surface Transportation Board released a new rate study. |
Mexico requested the establishment of an arbitration panel on the issue on January 6 stating that US trade officials were being overly strict in their approach to calculating the regional value content of a vehicle. |
Crude prices rose to their highest level since the 2014 shale-induced oil crash, a milestone in a rally that is gathering momentum as geopolitical tensions threaten to knock supply. |