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Boeing has patented a design for an airplane that can pick up and carry containers in its belly, Popular Mechanics reported. In the patent, the plane is able to lower itself onto a row of standardized ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The global container fleet market size is expected to grow by 5.34 teu during 2020-2024. The report also provides the market impact and new opportunities created due to the ...

The use of ISO tank containers in transportation, particularly overseas in Europe and Asia, has grown exponentially over the last two decades, going from approximately 200,000 containers through the ...

Intermodal traffic has been seeing a diversion to East Coast ports. Photo: Port of NY/NJ Intermodal freight movements are finally recovering since a tentative agreement was worked out about three ...

The domestic intermodal industry has long been plagued by an inability to accurately track and report, in a timely manner, the status of a container in transit. Historically, that’s put intermodal at ...

The Port of Los Angeles processed 957,599 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) in March, the strongest March in the port’s 114-year history. Intermodal freight transportation is booming, but port ...

Freight rail’s enhanced productivity has made rail more competitive in the movement of intermodal domestic cargo. This, in turn, allows the trucking industry, which has been plagued by driver ...

ITS Logistics announced that its April US Port/Rail Ramp Freight Index, released April 18, forecasts how the lack of empty container return availability is “negatively impacting shipping for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walmart is offloading its intermodal assets to logistics and transportation services provider J.B. Hunt, as part of the companies’ ...

A committee will study approaches for supplying the chassis used by motor carriers, railroads, and marine terminal operators to transport intermodal containers and will identify the circumstances ...

A Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) administrative law judge ruled Monday that ocean carriers could not lawfully require that motor carriers use specific intermodal chassis providers to move ...