Rail

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August 2020 North American transborder freight up 11% from July 2020

AJOT | October 27, 2020 | Intermodal | Rail | Trucking

• Total Transborder freight: $93.4 billion of transborder freight moved by all modes of transportation, up 2.7% compared to July 2020 and up 13.9% from June 2020. • Transborder freight value in August was down 11.1% compared to August 2019. • Most-used mode: Trucks moved $60.9 billion of freight, up 0.2% compared to July 2020, down 7.9% compared to August 2019. • Second most-used mode: Railways moved $13.8 billion of freight, up 7.2% compared to July 2020, down 14.3% compared to August 2019.

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Patriot Rail & Ports welcomes AVP of Sales

AJOT | October 26, 2020 | Intermodal | Rail

Patriot Rail & Ports is happy to announce that Roquita C. Williams has joined the commercial team as its newest assistant vice president in sales.

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Transforming how we move: Huawei’s Urban Rail Cloud Solution

AJOT | October 26, 2020 | Intermodal | Rail

Huawei’s Smart Urban Rail Solution streamlines the production, management and service subsystems of urban rails and fully integrates service data

South Africa’s rail expansion plan links Soweto to Johannesburg

Bloomberg | October 24, 2020 | Intermodal | Rail

Nebraska, Kansas & Colorado Railway project receives $4.5 million US Department of Transportation grant for track improvements

AJOT | October 22, 2020 | Intermodal | Rail

FTR’s Shippers Conditions Index for August reflect weakest shipping conditions in two years

AJOT | October 22, 2020 | Intermodal | Rail

Wales to nationalize rail network hit by Covid effects

Bloomberg | October 22, 2020 | Intermodal | Rail

Rail Traffic for the Week Ending October 17, 2020

AJOT | October 21, 2020 | Intermodal | Rail

Fortress eases Nuveen’s concerns with tweaks to Vegas deal

Bloomberg | October 21, 2020 | Intermodal | Rail

Fortress plans to sell $2.4 billion for Vegas rail, still record

Bloomberg | October 20, 2020 | Intermodal | Rail

Freight rail industry honors leaders in hazardous material safety

AJOT | October 20, 2020 | Intermodal | Rail

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State of Washington requests FEMA help with burnt bridge

AJOT | October 19, 2020 | Intermodal | Rail

The State of Washington is requesting an emergency/disaster declaration and related assistance from the Federal Government (i.e...the Federal Emergency Management Agency – FEMA) regarding a critical rail trestle & bridge that crosses over the Yakima River in Benton County near Prosser, which was destroyed by a wildfire in September.

OmniTRAX collaborates with Greater Brownsville Economic Development Corporation to launch rail-ready sites program

AJOT | October 14, 2020 | Intermodal | Rail

Cornerstone of modern, resilient rail industry laid 40 years ago

AJOT | October 14, 2020 | Intermodal | Rail

Rail traffic for the week ending October 10, 2020

AJOT | October 14, 2020 | Intermodal | Rail

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cargo-partner sends block train from Linz to Qingdao for Lenzing

AJOT | October 09, 2020 | Intermodal | Rail

The logistics provider organized a full train from Linz, Austria to Qingdao, China on behalf of the international fiber manufacturer. The block train consists of a total of 46 forty-foot containers, loaded with responsibly produced fibers made from the renewable raw material wood. The shipment departed for its journey across the “Iron Silk Road” on Friday, October 9 and is set to arrive at its destination station in Xi’an, China, in 16 days.