plastics shippers

CN, others to develop plastics resins export facility in Alabama

A photograph of a CN train traveling by a manufacturing facility.

Canadian railway CN (NYSE: CNI) has partnered with others to develop a high-tech logistics near the Port of Mobile in Alabama for the export of plastics resins or pellets.

CN, Mississippi Export Railroad subsidiary Alabama Export Railroad and Ray-Mont Logistics expect the first phase of the logistics park in Mobile to be open in late 2021. The facility, designed to bag and containerize plastic pellets, will have an annual capacity of 25,000 twenty-foot equivalent units.

“With this new project CN...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cn-others-to-develop-plastics-resins-export-facility-in-alabama

CSX, A&R Logistics celebrate new plastics facility near Charleston

A CSX train hauls intermodal containers.

A&R Logistics has opened a 615,000-square-foot facility near the Port of Charleston in South Carolina. CSX (NASDAQ: CSX) partnered with A&R Logistics in bringing the facility to fruition.

The facility is targeting high-volume, export-seeking plastics producers that are looking for a shipping alternative to the U.S. Gulf Coast. A&R Logistics provides dry bulk and liquid chemical transportation services to chemical companies. The company also offers warehousing and packaging, distribution, export...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/csx-ar-logistics-celebrate-new-plastics-facility-near-charleston

KCS, NS and CN sign onto campaign to prevent plastic pellet spills

A photograph of a Norfolk Southern locomotive and another freight train locomotive parked at a rail yard.

Freight railroads and the plastics industry have started to work together to address a side effect of North America’s booming plastics production: the dispersion of wayward plastic pellets in transit.

Plastic pellets, or resin pellets, are a feedstock used in plastics production. They can look like small round orbs or balls. But because of their size, they can easily disperse during transport. Environmental groups have said that following a storm, these pellets, which are also called nurdles,...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/kcs-ns-and-cn-sign-onto-campaign-to-prevent-plastic-pellet-spills

STB asks Class I railroads to report on chemicals and plastics data

A photograph of boxcars and tank cars at a rail crossing.

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) will include certain chemical and plastics traffic as a distinct reporting category that the Class I railroads must include in a weekly report about held railcars.

The Board said Thursday it is adopting a rule on this issue, effective July 20. The rule will apply to all the Class I carriers and the Chicago Transportation Coordination Office. Chicago is a key railroad hub.

The Class I railroads report certain performance metrics for a wide range of...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/stb-asks-class-i-railroads-to-report-on-chemicals-and-plastics-data