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BNSF’s trade-related intermodal projects move ahead despite tariffs

BNSF Railway is not hitting the pause button on a pair of trade-dependent intermodal projects in California and Arizona despite the broad tariffs that the Trump administration unveiled last Wednesday.

BNSF is planning to build a $1.5 billion terminal and transload center in Barstow, California, to handle international containers. The 4,500-acre Barstow International Gateway project aims to speed imported freight to inland markets by reducing the amount of time containers dwell on the docks at...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/bnsfs-trade-related-intermodal-projects-move-ahead-despite-tariffs

Analyst: Intermodal facing volume headwinds from tariffs, economic uncertainty

The only thing that’s certain these days, intermodal analyst Larry Gross says, is uncertainty.

And that makes it difficult to whip up an accurate short-term intermodal forecast, he told an Intermodal Association of North America webcast on Tuesday.

But Gross says gathering economic storm clouds – new tariffs, the end of an import surge, diminishing hopes for tighter trucking capacity, sagging consumer and business confidence, and the potential for stagflation – will not help intermodal volumes...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/analyst-intermodal-to-face-volume-headwinds-due-to-economic-uncertainty

C.H. Robinson: Time is running out to recoup paid tariffs

C.H. Robinson (NASDAQ: CHRW) believes many American businesses could lose out on rightfully owed money if they don’t act soon. The logistics giant has run data analysis on Section 301 China trade tariffs, which are eligible for exclusions, and found that American companies have not acted in securing approvals for exclusions written into the tariffs by the Trump administration.

Mike Short, C.H. Robinson president of global forwarding, told FreightWaves that the current tariff exclusions expire on...

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