Railroad Shipping

Rail carloads, at 226,748, fell 0.9% annually, and intermodal containers and trailers, at 272,940 units, were off 6.1% annually.

The company announced that Kevin Boone has been named executive vice president and chief financial officer, and Maryclare Kenney has been promoted to senior vice president and chief commercial officer.

Rail carloads, at 224,244, eked out a 0.3% annual increase, and intermodal containers and trailers, at 273,610 units, fell 4.8% annually.

In expressing their collective concern regarding the proposed Class I freight railroad carrier merger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, a letter sent to President Trump from the American Chemistry Council (ACC), on behalf of 40 member-company chemical manufacturing CEOs, explained that should this deal come to fruition, it could have negative effects on United States manufacturing in various ways.

Rail carloads, at 224,562, increased 1.2% annually, and intermodal containers and trailers, at 273,900 units, fell 3.3% annually.

In this podcast, LM Group News Editor Jeff Berman interviews Association of American Railroads (AAR) President and CEO Ian Jefferies.

U.S. rail carloads, at 224,972, eked out a 0.002% annual increase, and intermodal containers and trailers, at 278,566 units, rose 6.7% annually.

Rail carloads, at 228,903, eked out a 0.9% annual increase, and intermodal containers and trailers, at 283,739 units, headed up 1.1%.

In this podcast, LM Group News Editor Jeff Berman interviews Tony Hatch, principal of New York-based ABH Consulting.

Jacksonville-based Class I railroad carrier CSX Corp. said today that Steve Angel was named as its new President and Chief Executive Office by the company’s Board of Directors, effective September 28. Angel will replaced previous president and CEO Joe Hinrichs, whom has departed the company and had been with CSX for three years, joining the company in September 2022.

Rail carloads, at 228,609, fell 1.8% annually, and intermodal containers and trailers, at 282,068 units, were off 2.5% annually.

U.S. rail carloads, at 231,237, were off 0.5% annually, and intermodal containers and trailers, at 282,930, decreased 2.6% annually.

A letter sent this week by the Rail Customer Coalition (RCC), a concern comprised of trade associations representing the manufacturing, energy, and agricultural industries reliant on railroads, to the leadership at the Surface Transportation Board (STB), an independent adjudicatory and economic-regulatory agency charged by Congress with resolving railroad rate and service disputes and reviewing proposed railroad mergers, laid out various concerns and reservations that RCC has in regards to the proposed merger between Class I railroad carriers Union Pacific and...

August U.S. rail carloads were up 0.7% annually, for its sixth straight month of annual gains, and August intermodal volume, headed up 0.5% annually, with average weekly intermodal volume, at 284,316, coming in at the highest level, for any month, going back to May 2021, as well as highest August reading since 2018.

Rail carloads, at 214,383, fell 3.5% annually, and intermodal containers and trailers, at 253,497 units, were off 1.4%.