BNSF, KCS to start joint intermodal service to Mexico

BNSF Railway Co. and Kansas City Southern will offer a new joint intermodal service connecting shippers in the Chicago and Dallas/Fort Worth areas, as well as other major markets along BNSF’s rail lines to the Kansas City Southern de México network.    BNSF Railway Co. and Kansas City Southern will offer a new joint intermodal service connecting shippers in the Chicago and Dallas/Fort Worth areas, as well as other major markets along BNSF’s rail lines to the Kansas City Southern de México network. 
   The new service, which starts Dec. 1, will provide intermodal transport five days a week, the railroads said.
   Northbound, the service will operate from Toluca, San Luis Potosí or Monterrey, Mexico to Dallas/Fort Worth or Chicago. Southbound, the service will originate from Chicago or Dallas/Fort Worth to Laredo, Texas; or to Monterrey, San Luis Potosí or Toluca, Mexico. 
   The railroads said that shippers using this service can also connect to the West Coast via Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Stockton, Calif.; and Seattle and Portland, Ore., in the Pacific Northwest. In addition, shippers may connect to other regions along BNSF’s 32,500-mile network from Dallas/Fort Worth or Chicago, as well as other railroads to reach northeastern and Canadian markets.
   “This new service offers customers moving consumer goods, including appliances, foods and beverages and other cross-border shipments, a secure and direct connection to some of the most important consumer and manufacturing regions in Mexico. Trains moving in both directions carrying 53-foot intermodal containers will interchange at Robstown, Texas,” the railroads said.