Intermodal

News from the intermodal freight transportation industry.


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Southeastern Freight Lines Recognized as Hillman Group LTL Carrier of the Year

AJOT | March 12, 2020 | Intermodal | Trucking

Southeastern Freight Lines, a leading provider of regional less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation services, has been recognized as the 2019 LTL Carrier of the Year by the Hillman Group, a leading North American provider of complete hardware solutions.

Alberta ready to cut oil output to ensure producers’ survival

Bloomberg | March 11, 2020 | Energy | Intermodal | Rail

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TRI-AD enables successful creation of HD maps for automated driving on surface roads

AJOT | March 11, 2020 | Intermodal | Trucking

Toyota Research Institute-Advanced Development, Inc. (TRI-AD), Toyota's automated driving software development company, has successfully completed proof of concepts (PoC) demonstrating high definition (HD) map building for surface roads with relative accuracy of less than 50 centimeters, a good level that is required for automated driving.

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January 2020 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI)

AJOT | March 11, 2020 | Intermodal | Rail | Trucking

The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), which is based on the amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry, was unchanged in January from December, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS). From January 2019 to January 2020, the index fell 1.0% compared to a rise of 5.5% from January 2018 to January 2019 and a rise of 6.0% from January 2017 to January 2018.

Subways, airports in costly rush to clean amid virus threat

Bloomberg | March 11, 2020 | Air Cargo | Airports | Intermodal | Rail

Rail traffic for the week ending March 7, 2020

AJOT | March 11, 2020 | Intermodal | Rail

UK set for biggest stimulus in decades for infrastructure

Bloomberg | March 11, 2020 | Intermodal | Trucking

Read the fine print on Johnson’s new infrastructure plans

Bloomberg | March 11, 2020 | Intermodal | Trucking

Qantas culls flights while European carriers rush to quit Italy

Bloomberg | March 10, 2020 | Air Cargo | Airlines | Intermodal

Roads to nowhere won’t lead China out of crisis

Bloomberg | March 10, 2020 | Intermodal | Trucking

Alibaba’s Chinese delivery arm is back at pre-outbreak levels

Bloomberg | March 10, 2020 | Intermodal | Logistics | Trucking

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2019 North American transborder freight numbers

AJOT | March 06, 2020 | Intermodal | Rail | Trucking

Transborder freight between the U.S. and other North American countries (Canada and Mexico) in 2019: • Total Transborder Freight: $1.2 trillion of transborder freight moved by all modes of transportation, down 0.2% from 2018 • Most-used mode: Truck moved $772 billion of freight, virtually unchanged compared to 2018 • Second most-used mode: Rail moved $179 billion of freight, down 0.2% compared to 2018

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No one knows what to do about Italy’s deadly bridges

Bloomberg | March 06, 2020 | Intermodal | Trucking

A government engineer found crumbling viaducts that are putting lives at risk. Documents show there’s little he can do to close them.

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