Project first suggested in 2002 may yet go forward as Port of Baltimore vies for hinterland freight movements.
Cowen expects softening trucking prices in 2019 to be a headwind for truckload carrier earnings, but should widen gross margins for freight brokerages.
Big ships, bigger plans in store for Savannah
Facility designed to link inland businesses with Savannah port through dedicated rail service
Also in the pickup: Morgan Stanley index, and a move back to sailing across the ocean.
In a 45-minute chat at a Credit Suisse conference, Jim Foote insists that it isn’t all about cost-cutting.
What happens if vegetables are grown vertically indoors? What happens if oil prices collapse? Those were some of the questions at this Marketwaves18 panel.
In this final part of the three-part series, the author looks at what steps need to be taken to successfully implement precision railroading.
Precision railroading has worked, but consistent success has been elusive.
The industry clearly is moving in the direction of precision railroading being the “way to go.” Now it’s time to figure out the possibilities and the hurdles.
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CSX beats estimates as coal volumes post strong gains, but increasing share in intermodal is the railroad’s next plan.
In his preview of the railroads’ Q3 earnings reports, Susquehanna’s Bascome Majors set optimistic price targets but warned that P/E valuations are at historically high levels.
Four new inbound truck lanes recently opened at Virginia International Gateway, increasing the capacity at the terminal’s gate complex by 30 percent.
Norfolk Southern has control over a small connector railroad in the Hampton Roads port area, and CSX says it is using that control to block CSX from launching significant intermodal service there.
Howard Green is best on fights between the serial CEO and his boards, activist investors, and proxy wars, but there’s a lot in the book for railroad buffs who want to know more about Harrison’s signature philosophy, precision scheduled railroading.
The debt rating agency sees some drawbacks to the process, but is otherwise strongly in support of the growing trend.
BNSF will use the CSX system to haul intermodal freight from the LA/Long Beach port, and service on the CSX system will be added from the New York/New Jersey port.
The lawsuit asserts that water “poured in through a gap in city levees,” and it says the gap was created by a railway underpass owned by CSX.
Jim Filter of Schneider says he’s seeing benefits from CSX paring back its footprint and focusing on a smaller range of lanes.
