transloading

Borderlands: TexAmericas Center looks to expand rail transload business

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: The TexAmericas Center looks to expand its rail transload business; Mexico’s exports of commercial trucks fell 11.3% in September; Bridgestone completes a $100 million expansion in Mexico, creating 150 jobs; and a cold storage facility is set for Southern California.

TexAmericas Center looks to expand rail transload business

The TexAmericas Center received an $865,000...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/texamericas-center-looks-to-expand-rail-transload-business

Kansas City Southern to utilize Commtrex’s transloading platform

Kansas City Southern will be using freight data supplier Commtrex’s platform to increase visibility and connectivity within KCS’ transload facility in the U.S. and Mexico.

The more than 100 transload facilities in 19 U.S. and Mexican states handle food and agricultural commodities, as well as bulk materials, chemicals, paper and forest products, and steel and other metals.

KCS (NYSE: KSU) says the arrangement will help it manage supply chain constraints as well as prepare for growing trade among...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/kansas-city-southern-to-utilize-commtrexs-transloading-platform

Maersk and Canadian Pacific open Vancouver transload facility

A transload facility at Vancouver developed by Maersk and Canadian Pacific is open for business.

The new Pacific Transload Express facility will bring “more speed and agility to demand fluctuations while also reducing demurrage and detention costs,” Maersk touted Thursday. The facility opened Sept. 1, with the first containers arriving earlier this week. 

The facility consists of 117,000 square feet and 103 doors, and it has the ability to transload international containers into domestic 53-foot...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/maersk-and-canadian-pacific-open-vancouver-transload-facility

Rail Roundup: TTCI scope and rail-shipper council membership expand

A photograph of intermodal containers parked at a rail yard.Contract change allows TTCI to expand work to multiple sites

The management of the Transportation Technology Center Inc. (TTCI), a subsidiary of the Association of American Railroads (AAR) that develops and researches safety technology for the rail industry, is undergoing a change in September that will expand TTCI’s work to multiple sites.

TTCI’s management will transition from a single-source “care, custody and control contract” to a contract affiliated with the U.S. Department of...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/rail-roundup-ttci-scope-and-rail-shipper-council-membership-expand

CP, Maersk ink deal to develop Vancouver transload and distribution facility

A photograph of a train hauling intermodal containers.

Canadian Pacific (NYSE: CP) and Maersk have agreed to build a “world-class” transload and distribution facility at CP’s intermodal facility in Vancouver, British Columbia, that will be ready to serve customers in 2021.

As part of the agreement, CP will shuttle the containers of Maersk’s customers to and from the ocean terminals at the Port of Vancouver. The arrangement “will rely on the substantial use of rail instead of truck in the Vancouver market,” the parties said.

The new multicommodity...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cp-maersk-ink-deal-to-develop-vancouver-transload-and-distribution-facility

Forager releases instant cross-border contract pricing

Forager, the technology platform powering the complex North American cross-border freight market, has released instant contract pricing for dry van truckload movements on SCOUT, its proprietary software.

Using SCOUT, shippers can build a lane and lock in contracted freight rates in a matter of minutes. Specifying load attributes like origin, destination, crossing, commodity, weight, and whether the load can be transloaded or not is accomplished with drop-down menus. Lane frequency and start/stop...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/forager-releases-instant-cross-border-contract-pricing

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