BNSF profits rise as volume and rates increase
Pricing gains and volume growth spurred BNSF Railway to modestly higher first-quarter profits.
Pricing gains and volume growth spurred BNSF Railway to modestly higher first-quarter profits.
Most major railroads maintained their 2025 outlooks even amid worries about trade and the economy.
The Surface Transportation Board will decide whether Union Pacific is blocking rival BNSF from accessing a Utah logistics park.
With Chinese imports tanking and fewer calls expected at West Coast ports, many empty containers won’t have a way back to Asia.
Union Pacific has brought a rare trackage rights dispute with BNSF to the Surface Transportation Board.
Two trade-dependent intermodal projects by BNSF Railway will move forward despite the Trump administration’s announcement of new tariffs.
A partnership of BNSF, Norfolk Southern and the Northwest Seaport Alliance are offering expedited service from the Pacific Northwest to the Chicago rail hub.
BNSF’s group vice president for industrial products has been named chief executive of shortline rail operator OmniTRAX.
With an international intermodal surge winding down, analyst Larry Gross pins his hopes on domestic intermodal share gains.
Class 1 railroads saw mixed results in Q4 of 2024, but consultant Oliver Wyman sees a steadier year ahead.
BNSF Railway said customers invested $4.2 billion in industrial projects on its network in 2024.
Port fees on Chinese ships are aimed at boosting U.S. shipbuilding but could have follow-on effects for intermodal traffic, too.
The early-year supply chain lull swept rail freight in the latest carload data from the Association of American Railroads.
BNSF’s saw fourth quarter revenue decline primarily due to a 6.6% drop in average revenue per carload.
Union Pacific might be running the smoothest rail network.
U.S. rail traffic has risen for the fifth time in the first six weeks of 2025.
While the global supply chain seemed whipsawed on a daily basis in 2024, one thing remained constant: a veritable tsunami of ocean containers moving through the Port of Los Angeles. The busiest U.S. maritime trade hub moved 10.3 million container units in 2024, a record 1.7 million TEUs or nearly 20% higher than a year […]
U.S. rail traffic showed a massive jump for the week ending Jan. 18, 2025, with both carload and intermodal traffic up more than 25% from the same week a year earlier. Statistics from the Association of American Railroads show overall traffic for the week was 500,160 carloads and intermodal units, a 25.9% increase. That included […]
Intermodal volumes boosted weekly U.S. rail traffic even as overall carloads slipped compared to the same week in 2024.
SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — The power of data, or more accurately, of well-used data, may not have explicitly been the topic of BNSF Railway CEO Katie Farmer’s presentation at the Midwest Association of Rail Shippers Winter Meeting. But it was a recurring theme of several subjects she touched on as part of her keynote address Wednesday […]