North American rails tackle congestion

BNSF Railway (BNSF), North America’s largest intermodal rail, GMXT, the largest operator of freight rail services in Mexico and JB Hunt Transport Services Inc, one of the largest supply chain solutions providers in North America, are to cooperate in a new intermodal rail service linking Mexico with the US. The trains are routed via the Eagle Pass, Texas border crossing.

Lowell, Ark, based JB Hunt, which is one of the US’s largest trucking, intermodal and logistics services companies, is to buy the brokerage operations of BNSF Logistics, which is a business unit of BNSF Railway.

Canadian National Railway Company’s (CN Rail) Falcon Premium Intermodal Service linking Canada and Mexico is now offering its customers faster transit times.

The Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bahn AG has mandated the Management Board to draw up and prepare the sale of up to 100% of DB Schenker AG

Union Pacific Railroad has partnered with green technology company ZTR Control Systems to build hybrid-electric locomotives for a yard application.

This high frequency rail link delivers a strategic answer to persistent requests for more multimodal capacity between Germany, Sweden and Finland, says the multimodal shortsea shipping company