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News from the intermodal freight transportation industry.

Alan Shaw: We will not walk away, East Palestine

AJOT Newsroom | February 16, 2023 | Intermodal

Norfolk Southern Corporation President and CEO, Alan H. Shaw, shared a letter today with the community of East Palestine, Ohio.

Rail Vision launches proof-of-concept pilot program with leading US-based rail & leasing services company

AJOT Newsroom | February 16, 2023 | Intermodal

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Bloomberg | February 15, 2023

What the Ohio train derailment says about the dark side of plastics

The Norfolk Southern crash highlights the environmental and health dangers of the world’s growing reliance on plastics, which two of the train’s hazardous-material cargo are used to make.

AAR reports rail traffic for the week ending February 11, 2023

AJOT Newsroom | February 15, 2023 | Intermodal | Rail

Class 1 railroad implements duos technologies’ artificial intelligence models in operations

AJOT Newsroom | February 15, 2023 | Intermodal | Shipping Technology

Duos Technologies Group, Inc. through its operating subsidiary Duos Technologies, Inc., a provider of machine vision and artificial intelligence that analyzes fast-moving trains and trucks, announced that it has 30 artificial intelligence (“AI”) models in operations for...

Activist Investor Engine No. 1 launches supply chain ETF

Bloomberg | February 15, 2023 | Intermodal

Ohio train derailment could bring Cancer risk, millions in damage

Bloomberg | February 15, 2023 | Intermodal | Rail

2023 Freight RAILCAR Act modernizes domestic freight railcar fleet

AJOT Newsroom | February 14, 2023 | Intermodal

Britain loses 2.5 million days to worst strikes since 1990

Bloomberg | February 14, 2023 | Intermodal

Cathay Pacific first to offer intermodal cargo ops at Hong Kong International Airport’s Logistics Park

AJOT Newsroom | February 13, 2023 | Intermodal

Regular sailings from Dongguan will bring security-screened and palletised air cargo direct to a secured pier at Hong Kong International Airport for export

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AJOT Newsroom | February 13, 2023

CSX reaches agreement with IAM and NCFO on paid sick leave for railroad workers

CSX announced that it has reached an agreement with two additional railroad unions to provide paid sick leave to its employees.

Transnet taps private firms to run South African ports, railways

Bloomberg | February 13, 2023 | Intermodal | Rail

Heathrow Airport workers plan to ballot for strikes, union says

Bloomberg | February 12, 2023 | Air Cargo | Airports | Intermodal

UK rail union rejects offer and threatens more strikes

Bloomberg | February 11, 2023 | Intermodal | Rail

UK Rail Union RMT rejects settlement to end strikes

Bloomberg | February 10, 2023 | Intermodal

The UK’s RMT Union rejected the latest offers from both Network Rail and the train operating companies, according to an emailed statement.

Rail Union recommends pay offer as UK tries to end strikes

Bloomberg | February 10, 2023 | Intermodal

Britain is nearing a breakthrough with a major rail union in an attempt to end persistent train strikes that started last summer.

South Africa’s Transnet to shrink rail network by 4,000 miles

Bloomberg | February 09, 2023 | Intermodal | Rail

December 2022 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI)

AJOT Newsroom | February 08, 2023 | Intermodal

The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), which is based on the amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry, rose 0.6% in December from November, rising for the first month after two months of decline, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS).