Intermodal

News from the intermodal freight transportation industry.

New York snowfall wraps up after storm snarls transportation

Snow will come to an end across New York City after sunset from the powerful nor’easter that snarled travel up and down the East Coast, dropped snow by the foot, and lashed Massachusetts with hurricane-force wind gusts that knocked out power to thousands.

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Bloomberg | January 31, 2022

Truckers protesting vaccine rule staying put in Canada’s capital

Raucous protests in Canada’s capital continued Sunday over trucker vaccine mandates and other Covid-19 health restrictions, but the crowd thinned from its height a day earlier after drawing military and political rebukes for poor behavior.

Midwest Association of Rail Shippers Elects New Officers

Midwest Association of Rail Shippers | January 28, 2022 | Intermodal | Rail

The Midwest Association of Rail Shippers (MARS) elected its 2022 slate of officers at its annual Winter Meeting earlier in January.

Rensselaer awarded multimillion-dollar grant to study freight transportation

AJOT Newsroom | January 28, 2022 | Intermodal | Trucking

Volvo flags price rises on truck demand, supply chain costs

Bloomberg | January 28, 2022 | Intermodal | Trucking | By The Numbers

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Bloomberg | January 27, 2022

Musk lauds vaccine protest convoy barreling toward Trudeau

Elon Musk voiced his support for a so-called “freedom convoy” of Canadian truckers and other activists on their way to Ottawa to protest the country’s vaccine mandates and other Covid-19 control measures.

Midwest Association of Rail Shippers elects new officers

AJOT Newsroom | January 27, 2022 | Intermodal | Rail

The Midwest Association of Rail Shippers (MARS) elected its 2022 slate of officers at its annual Winter Meeting earlier in January.

November 2021 North American Transborder freight up 25.2% from 2020; up 21.3% from pre-pandemic November 2019

AJOT Newsroom | January 27, 2022 | Intermodal | Trucking

Transborder freight between the U.S. and North American countries (Canada and Mexico) in November 2021: • Total transborder freight: $120.1 billion of transborder freight moved by all modes of transportation, an increase of 25.2% from $95.9 billion in November 2020. • November 2021 transborder freight value increased 21.3% from $99.0 billion in pre-pandemic November 2019. • Freight between the U.S. and Canada totaled $61.4B, up 31.4% from November 2020. Freight between the U.S. and Mexico totaled $58.7B, up 19.4% from November 2020. • Trucks moved $73.5 billion of freight, up 17.1% compared to November 2020. • Railways moved $16.4 billion of freight, up 18.1% compared to November 2020.