En el primer trimestre de 2025, los ferrocarriles de Clase I en América del Norte están demostrando hasta ahora niveles variados de rendimiento del servicio, según nuevas métricas ordenadas por la Junta de Transporte de Surface. El STB ahora requiere que los ferrocarriles de carga importantes...
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El volumen ferroviario de EE. UU. Aún en las últimas estadísticas semanales
El tráfico ferroviario de EE. UU. Se acabó en la semana que terminó el 8 de febrero, la quinta vez en seis semanas de 2025 ese volumen ha mostrado una ganancia en los niveles de 2024. Según la Asociación de Ferrocarriles Americanos, el tráfico de la semana fue de 502,449 cargas de automóviles y...
Local service still a sticking point for Class I railroads
In the first quarter of 2025, Class I railroads in North America are so far demonstrating varied levels of service performance, according to new metrics mandated by the Surface Transportation Board. The STB now requires major freight railroads to report additional data on on-time percentages, train speeds and terminal dwell times in an effort to increase transparency and accountability.
The new STB metrics, which began being collected in September 2024, establish baseline standards for on-time...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/local-service-still-a-sticking-point-for-class-i-railroads
US rail volume still up in latest weekly statistics
U.S. rail traffic was up for the week ending Feb. 8, the fifth time in six weeks of 2025 that volume has shown a gain over 2024 levels.
According to the Association of American Railroads, traffic for the week was 502,449 carloads and intermodal units, a 3.7% increase over the same week in 2024. That figure included 218,393 carloads, down 0.7% from the same week a year ago, and 284,056 containers and trailers, a 7.4% increase.
For the year to date, carload volume is equal to 2024, while intermodal...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/us-rail-volume-still-up-in-latest-weekly-statistics
Los Ángeles, el puerto de contenedores estadounidense más ocupado, planea un futuro aún más grande
Si bien la cadena de suministro global parecía azotada diariamente en 2024, una cosa permaneció constante: un verdadero tsunami de contenedores oceánicos que se movían a través del puerto de Los Ángeles. El centro comercial marítimo más ocupado de los Estados Unidos movió 10.3 millones de unidades...
Los Angeles, the busiest US container port, plans even bigger future
While the global supply chain seemed whipsawed on a daily basis in 2024, one thing remained constant: a veritable tsunami of ocean containers moving through the Port of Los Angeles.
The busiest U.S. maritime trade hub moved 10.3 million container units in 2024, a record 1.7 million TEUs or nearly 20% higher than a year ago.
“That is our second-best year in the 117-year history of the Port of Los Angeles,” said Executive Director Gene Seroka, who spoke at the annual State of the Port event...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/los-angeles-the-busiest-us-container-port-plans-even-bigger-future
U.S. weekly rail volume shows big jump
U.S. rail traffic showed a massive jump for the week ending Jan. 18, 2025, with both carload and intermodal traffic up more than 25% from the same week a year earlier.
Statistics from the Association of American Railroads show overall traffic for the week was 500,160 carloads and intermodal units, a 25.9% increase. That included 216,457 carloads, up 25.1%, and 287,703 containers and trailers, up 26.5%.
While railroad officials have suggested that they are seeing traffic increases as importers...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/u-s-weekly-rail-volume-shows-big-jump
Intermodal strength keeps US rail volume ahead of 2024 levels
Carload traffic was down considerably, but intermodal volume remained strong in the latest report on U.S. weekly rail traffic.
According to the Association of American Railroads, traffic for the week ending Jan. 11, 2025, included 465,390 carloads and intermodal units and was up 1.8% from the same week in 2024. That included 199,511 carloads, down 6.4% compared to the corresponding week a year ago, and 265,879 containers and trailers, up 8.9%.
Through two weeks of 2025, the cumulative volume of...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/intermodal-strength-keeps-us-rail-volume-ahead-of-2024-levels
BNSF CEO’s talk illustrates value of data in improving service
SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — The power of data, or more accurately, of well-used data, may not have explicitly been the topic of BNSF Railway CEO Katie Farmer’s presentation at the Midwest Association of Rail Shippers Winter Meeting. But it was a recurring theme of several subjects she touched on as part of her keynote address Wednesday on the conference’s first day.
Data played a part in Farmer’s look ahead to BNSF’s Barstow International Gateway intermodal and logistics project; in discussing the...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/bnsf-ceos-talk-illustrates-value-of-data-in-improving-service
Tariff uncertainty front and center at MARS conference
SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — The question of the day, on the first day of the Midwest Association of Rail Shippers Winter Meeting, is probably one being asked in one form or another at every business in the United States — or that does business with the U.S.
What about tariffs?
The consensus Wednesday was, not surprisingly, that there is no consensus — except that it is simply too soon to know what the promise of widespread tariffs from President-elect Donald Trump will mean, until the specifics become...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/tariff-uncertainty-front-and-center-at-mars-conference