The fourth quarter of 2024 saw mixed results for North America’s seven largest freight railroads, reflecting ongoing economic uncertainties and shifting trade patterns, but carriers should see steady if unspectacular results in 2025 after taking proactive measures, according to a new study.
Consultant Oliver Wyman surveyed key performance metrics, and found revenue performance in Q4 2024 was generally flat or slightly down compared to Q4 2023, continuing the slower business trends seen...
El cuarto trimestre de 2024 vio resultados mixtos para los siete ferrocarriles de carga más grandes de América del Norte, lo que refleja las incertidumbres económicas en curso y los patrones comerciales cambiantes, pero los transportistas deben ver resultados estables aunque poco espectaculares en 2025 después de tomar medidas proactivas, según un nuevo estudio. El […]
Esta entrada México aumentó CPKC, FXE en 2024, ya que otros ferrocarriles vieron ingresos más débiles Aparece primero en FullAvan...
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
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Mexico’s government issued a federal mandate this week forcing private railway companies operating...
BNSF, J.B. Hunt Transport Services and Grupo Mexico’s Ferromex (GMXT) are launching an intermodal service that they say will slash a day off transit time between Monterrey in Mexico and Chicago and offer opportunities for customers to grow into expanding markets in Mexico.
The service will begin Jan. 1, 2024. Service will be offered between the Monterrey, Silao-Bajio and Pantaco-Mexico City regions and Chicago and the U.S. Midwest via the border gateway at Eagle Pass, Texas. The Dallas-Fort...
Mexican railroad operator Ferromex has temporarily suspended operations of 60 trains on northbound routes in the wake of reported injuries and deaths of migrants attempting to use the freight trains to travel to the U.S.
Ferromex officials said on Tuesday an influx of some 4,300 migrants across central Mexico in recent days has disrupted the company’s train operations, including on several key U.S.-Mexico trade routes.
“Given the notable increase in migrants concentrated in various regions of the...
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Mexico has a freight railway system owned by the national government.
However, the trains and the network are operated and managed by various private entities under concessions (charters) granted by the national government.
Today, Mexico has service from eight concessionaire railway companies. Beyond Kansas City Southern de Mexico, and Ferromex, are the smaller,...
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