No simple swap: Ins and outs of reciprocal switching on US railroads

A photograph of a two boxcara and a tank car on train tracks.

One of the executive orders President Joe Biden issued in July calls for the chairman of the Surface Transportation Board to consider reciprocal switching as a way to pursue competitiveness in the freight rail industry.

As FreightWaves wrote in August, reciprocal switching occurs when a shipper has access to one freight railroad but wants access to a nearby competing freight railroad in order to cultivate a competitive pricing environment. A shipper can get that access at an interchange between...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/no-simple-swap-ins-and-outs-of-reciprocal-switching-on-us-railroads

Intermodal Summit: Ocean shipping reform can create proactive supply chains

This fireside chat recap is from FreightWaves’ Intermodal Summit.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: How the Ocean Shipping Reform Act could affect drayage operations

DETAILS: Nimesh Modi, CEO of drayage marketplace BookYourCargo (BYC), dives into the Ocean Shipping Reform Act that would require common ocean carriers to adhere to best practices and regulations around detention and demurrage charges. Modi describes the problems this reform would help solve and how technology could improve from transparency of...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/intermodal-summit-ocean-shipping-reform-can-create-proactive-supply-chains

BookYourCargo platform uses carrier feedback to enhance drayage experience

When the drayage services provider BookYourCargo (BYC) was founded in 2015, its focus was to create a digital solution designed to optimize container management and provide customers visibility of their shipments once they had been picked up at the port of discharge.

While the company built its newly released Digital Drayage Platform, customized to the needs of its drayage shippers, CEO Nimesh Modi explained in an interview with FreightWaves that capacity constraints and struggles filling driver...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/bookyourcargo-platform-uses-carrier-feedback-to-enhance-drayage-experience

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