US shippers retreat from Canada

Together with logistics company Duvenbeck, Audi AG is using the Helrom horizontal rail loading system to move reduce truck kilometres by 185,000 per week.

Canadian National Railway Company’s (CN Rail) Falcon Premium Intermodal Service linking Canada and Mexico is now offering its customers faster transit times.

Encouraged by growth in container traffic, APM Terminals and the Alabama Port Authority are investing to build the port’s intermodal rail capacity.

The Port of Long Beach and the Utah Inland Port Authority have agreed to collaborate in the development of cleaner, more cost-effective and innovative strategies aimed at moving goods quickly, safely and efficiently between Long Beach and Utah

MSC, the world’s second largest container shipping company, has launched a combined sea-rail Asia-Europe service via Russia. In this respect, it is following the lead of its 2M partner, Maersk Line, which has been offering railand combined sea-rail services between Asia (mainly China) and Europe for more than a year.

As reported by WorldCargo News Online, PSA Pra’ (Voltri, Genoa) now has a regular intermodal train link with Basel, offering Swiss shippers and importers an alternative to the Antwerp-Rotterdam-Zeebrugge range ports and also offering steel wheel connectivity for points north of Switzerland for the Italian port. The contracted rail haulier is Switzerland’s BLS.