North-American rail

Record third quarter freight traffic and record revenue pushed Kansas City Southern’s profit up 99 percent from a year earlier to $99.8 million.

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North America’s freight railroads aren’t burning up the tracks with surging peak-season traffic, but they’re still posting moderate gains in volume compared to last year.

Railcar leasing giant GATX saw profit in its rail segment soar 93 percent in the third quarter to $63 million, largely due to increases in pricing and fleet utilization.

The National Resources Defense Council filed suit this week against the Union Pacific and BNSF railroads to require the c

Third-quarter profit at Union Pacific, North America’s largest railroad, rose 16 percent to $904 million despite slim volume growth in what its CEO called an “uncertain” economy.

GE Transportation will spend $231 million to upgrade two factories to meet North American and foreign demand for locomotives, mining equipment and other products including marine engines.

CSX Transportation looks for the U.S. economy and its rail freight traffic to keep growing “at a modest rate” in the next few quarters, said Michael Ward, its chairman and CEO.

CSX Transportation saw its profit rise 12 percent to $464 million in the third quarter, as revenue increased 11 percent from a year earlier to nearly $3 billion while freight volume edged up just 1 pe

U.S. job growth nearly came to a halt at the seven largest freight railroads from mid-August to mid-September, a period when weekly rail traffic was running slightly ahead of 2010 levels.

U.S. agriculture industry officials are stepping up efforts to restore barley exports to Japan after a steep and rapid downturn in shipments in recent years.

Port planner John Vickerman sees the expanded Panama Canal's effect on U.S. trade shaking out in either of two ways.

Canadian Pacific Railway is partnering with truck and logistics provider Contrans by using collapsible containers to convert some flatbed-type shipments to double-stack rail intermodal service.

Maersk Line and CSX Transportation signed a contract for the railroad to haul the Danish ocean carrier’s discretionary cargo from APM terminal in Portsmouth, Va., to the Midwest.

President Obama stepped into a simmering dispute between rail unions and most major railroads Oct.

North America’s major freight railroads hauled 2.1 percent more intermodal traffic than a year earlier in the week ending Oct. 8, while bulk carload traffic grew 3.3 percent.

The Virginia Port Authority is expanding its market for discretionary container shipments into the Southeast and the Midwest through two new rail services.

North American intermodal traffic is hitting all-time weekly highs but the biggest railroads are raising caution flags about how the freight business will fare in coming months.

The rail peak season is under way for intermodal and some other cargoes, and the heads of major railroads have been preparing for months.

A recession forecast from the Economic Research Cycle Institute could point to a slump in rail freight volumes in coming months based on past correlations, says analyst Matthew Troy of Susquehanna Int

With cargo volumes moving through the Alameda Corridor in Southern California still recovering from the 2008-09 recession, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have been called upon to cover the co

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CSX Transportation said it has completed nearly a third of federally aided track clearance projects so that doublestack container trains can move between its new intermodal hub in northwest Ohio and a

BNSF Railway intermodal executive Fred Malesa does not believe West Coast ports will lose much market share in the Asian trade when the

Truckload giant Schneider National is leveraging its intermodal capabilities and relationship with Canadian National to speed freight between the U.S. and Canada.

President Obama, moving to prevent a potential strike against major U.S.

With a mild 0.6 percent gain in the latest week, major North American railroads again set a new all-time high in intermodal loadings with 313,026 containers and trailers in the week ending Oct.

A broad-based pickup in bulk railcar shipments pushed freight carloads up 2.2 percent at major North American railroads in the week ending Oct.

The Canadian government said it will “vigorously defend” its trade policies and infrastructure investments against any of the findings of a Federal Maritime Commission study looking into t

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood cleared a $196.5 million grant for Michigan to spend on track upgrades, the first part of a nearly $350 million federal investment in a east-west track segment now

BNSF Railway says by the time it has finished with historic flooding along the Missouri River and elsewhere this year, it expects the tab to be “about $375 million.”

The Federal Maritime Commission, jumping into a dispute over the shift of imported containers from the United States to Canada, voted Wednesday to launch an inquiry over whether the U.S.

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Federal regulators are opening a public proceeding on whether the premium Berkshire Hathaway paid in 2010 to buy BNSF Railway should be deducted from the valuation base that shapes the carrier’s

The Department of Transportation’s finalization of a grant this week for rail work near Wilmington, Del., sets the state for improvements to freight and passenger train operations in that state

BNSF Railway’s proposed $500 million near-dock intermodal terminal in Los Angeles-Long Beach will take up up to 1.5 million trucks a year off congested roads and freeways, according to a environ

Amtrak, CSX Transportation and other freight railroads in New York state will benefit after state officials got clearance from the Department of Transportation to spend $149.3 million in federal grant

Coal producer Alliance Resource Partners’s up to $525 million investment in a Southern Illinois mine being will generate shipments of 6 to 6.5 million tons annually

Intermodal traffic on major North American railroads hit its highest weekly volume so far this year in the week ending Sept.

The Port of Vancouver, Wash., can now tap into $15 million of intercity passenger rail funds to help build a new freight rail route to the dock area, after Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood finalize