Domestic News
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BNSF is planning a temporary embargo of westbound automotive shipments and specific agricultural and industrial commodities to address congestion in Southern California, according to a Thursday service advisory. |
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Port bottlenecks that have tied up U.S. supply chains are spreading from the docks to the country’s freight rail networks, raising costs and adding new shipping complications for importers trying to manage the flow of goods. |
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This dashboard shows the average speed, dwell time and railcars online for all of the Class I railroads operating in the United States. |
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A new Norfolk Southern incentive program for ocean carriers in New York-New Jersey and Virginia should help grow volume while encouraging a balanced flow of rail cars between inland terminals and the two ports. |
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Canadian National has added a second pair of intermodal trains linking the Port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, with points in Eastern Canada and the U.S. Midwest. |
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The United Steelworkers Union says it will keep contacting and pressing Ontario's labour minister until he agrees to a meeting to take action on the "deplorable health and safety situation at National Steel Car in Hamilton." |
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The strong pace of imported goods to the nation’s ports continued in May. The nation’s busiest facility, the Port of Los Angeles, had its third busiest month on record, processing 967,900 twenty-foot-equivalent unit (TEU) containers. |
International News
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Kenya will begin rehabilitating the 127-kilometre Voi-Taveta metre gauge railway line to serve the Kenya Ports Authority’s inland container depot at Taveta on the border with Tanzania. |
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For years, BASF SE, one of the world’s largest chemicals companies, built its business model around cheap and plentiful Russian natural gas, which it uses to generate power and as feedstock for products that make it into toothpaste, medicines and cars. |
