Intermodal

ITE Management has acquired the North American Chassis Pool Cooperative, expanding its intermodal platform to over 60,000 units.

As shippers migrate toward high-quality transportation providers, J.B. Hunt Transport Services comfortably surpassed expectations for the second quarter.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services blew past analysts’ second-quarter forecasts on Wednesday, sending shares up 9% in after-hours trading.

STG Logistics’ exit from Chapter 11 comes at an opportune time.

Schneider National announced additional leadership changes and promotions on Monday as part of a previously announced succession plan.

(The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates.) The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) recently approved a five-year waiver that lets railroads expand the use of Automated Track Inspection (ATI) technology. This decision, announced in December 2025 by U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean […]

Open Road Ventures announced it has acquired intermodal freight broker Double-Stack Logistics.

Hub Group announced that its chief financial officer and chief operating officer have departed as it works to restate financial results following an accounting error.

Global logistics provider DHL provides the logistics support that makes Formula 1 races possible around the world. Traditionally relying on air, ocean and road transport, DHL has now moved the first F1 shipment between race locations by rail.

A federal bankruptcy court in New Jersey has approved STG Logistics’ reorganization plan.

Hub Group said Tuesday that the scope of a previously identified accounting error has necessitated the restatement of financial results for additional periods.

MODE Global has expanded into Mexico with a new office in Puebla aimed at streamlining North American logistics.

Universal logistics’ intermodal struggles overshadow contract logistics growth, pushing the company into a quarterly loss.

Intermodal marketing company STG Logistics said Monday it plans to soon exit bankruptcy.

Werner Enterprises announced it is deploying more intermodal assets into Mexico.

Management at J.B. Hunt Transport Services pointed to mounting evidence that recent tightening across the truckload market will not be a temporary blip.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services beat first-quarter expectations, reporting record volumes in its intermodal segment.

Logistics providers are ramping up investments in Canada as e-commerce growth and cross-border trade drive demand for warehousing, fulfillment and drayage services.

Hub Group said it received a deficiency notice from Nasdaq for failing to timely submit 2025 financial results after discovering an accounting error.

Management from J.B. Hunt Transport Services said shipper attitudes are little changed as truck capacity leaves the market and fuel prices surge.

Universal Logistics reported sharply lower Q4 revenue and earnings as freight demand softened and losses in intermodal dragged on overall results.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services said on Tuesday that demand has been slightly ahead of expectations to start the year.

An accounting error at Hub Group has placed its financial statements for the first three quarters of 2025 under review.

Falling prices for containers moving from Asia to the United States could be one indicator that truck rates and tender rejections will soon continue to move up.

Schneider National’s stock was down 16% in after-hours trading on Thursday following a worse-than-expected earnings report.

Filter to succeed Rourke.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services beat fourth-quarter expectations as cost reductions more than offset a revenue decline.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services beat fourth-quarter earnings expectations Thursday after the market closed.

Intermodal marketing company STG Logistics announced Monday it has entered into a Chapter 11 restructuring plan.

Chassis provider TRAC has had its debt rating cut by Moody’s.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services declined to take a stab at what next year holds at an investor conference this week, but did emphasize that it’s “set up to win” regardless of what the new year brings.

Shares of Schneider National sank on Thursday after it missed third-quarter expectations and lowered its full-year 2025 outlook.

The State of Freight for October found some reasons to be bullish.

GE Appliances has signed on to the new Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern domestic intermodal route serving key markets via west and southwest ports.

Marten was overall profitable in the quarter but its Truckload segment lagged.

Cost reductions at J.B. Hunt more than offset a soft demand environment in the third quarter.

Shares of J.B. Hunt surged in after-hours trading on Wednesday after the company posted better-than-expected third-quarter results.

While lower imports ease traffic at intermodal terminals, the ITS Logistics US Port/Rail Ramp Freight Index cautions the silver linings hide gathering clouds.

Canadian National and CSX are collaborating on direct intermodal service from the West Coast of Canada to the heart of the U.S. Mid-south region. 

J.B. Hunt Transport Services promotes Brad Delco to chief financial officer.

The Ocean Carrier Equipment Management Association has appointed industry veteran Rob Cannizzaro as deputy executive director.

While Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern have agreed to consolidate, intermodal heavyweights will have to reassess their links to the major railroads.

Schneider National said Thursday it needs more information before weighing in on the potential fallout from a Union Pacific–Norfolk Southern merger.

Werner’s year-on-year comps were tough, but it performed better sequentially in the second quarter.

Universal Logistics Holdings reported a decline in second quarter earnings and revenue due to lower volumes and demand.

Marten is selling its intermodal unit, which is focused on refrigerated, to Hub Group.

Building upon SONAR intermodal and dry van contract rate data already available in the platform, as of today, intermodal savings rates are now included in SONAR, as a national average, for 63 individual lanes, and two indices.  The LA to Dallas lane is competitive between truckload and intermodal with a 9% average intermodal savings rate. […]

J.B. Hunt Transport Services’ second quarter comes with few surprises as the multimodal transportation provider navigates the bottom of the cycle.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services reported a largely inline second quarter on Tuesday.

Schneider National announced improved transit times on its cross-border intermodal service with Canadian Pacific Kansas City.

U.S. rail traffic was down for a second straight week y/y, the first back-to-back decline this year after 15 straight weeks ahead of 2024 levels.

The Federal Railroad Administration has determined that gantry cranes for a Montgomery intermodal facility meet the agency’s Buy America exemption.

A letter from the STB chairman says customers continue to report problems in southern US, requests details of ‘concrete steps’ to recover.

As tariff talk cools, intermodal carriers are becoming more upbeat.

Chicago, Il. — The Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger has gone smoothly over the past two years — until a long-planned computer system cutover last month in former Kansas City Southern territory in the U.S. CPKC Chief Operating Officer Mark Redd says the cutover — during which CP’s operations system replaced the old KCS system […]

Carload freight showed solid growth in May, but a marked decline in containers and trailers signals caution for the second half of this year.

Trac Intermodal is positioning its leading fleet of 200,000 chassis to support a tariff pause-fueled surge of import containers.

History doesn’t provide a road map for how intermodal traffic may perform in the midst of a trade war, analyst Larry Gross says.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services has expanded its premium intermodal offering, Quantum, to businesses in Mexico.

Chassis provider DCLI is upgrading its domestic intermodal chassis fleet with BlackBerry Radar GPS technology.

Intermodal volumes so far seem to be dodging the “air pocket” expected in the wake of steep tariffs on goods from China.

The ITS Logistics US Port/Rail Ramp Freight Index shows looming issues at rail terminals and an early peak season ahead.

Eastbound international container volume out of Southern California was down 5% from the prior week and 10% compared to the four-week rolling average, according to RailState.

It’s a whole new freight market from what it was just a month ago, according to the May State of Freight webinar.

Hub Group posted an 8% year-over-year decrease in total revenue in the first quarter, to $915.2 million.

Schneider National is still targeting 2025 as a growth year but not likely as robust as hoped due to trade uncertainty.

Schneider National posted a rare earnings beat in what was a tough quarter for transportation companies.

Universal Logistics Holdings’ first-quarter revenue decreased 22.3% year over year to $382.4 million.

Union Pacific has brought a rare trackage rights dispute with BNSF to the Surface Transportation Board.

Universal Logistics Holdings reported a 22% decrease in revenue and an 88% drop in earnings per share in the first quarter.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services said it’s remaining rate-disciplined on the intermodal front, allowing some business to walk as it works to improve yields and margins in the segment.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services’ first-quarter earnings result came in ahead of recently lowered forecasts.

Rail traffic in the U.S. rose 11.2% for the week that ended Saturday – the sixth straight increase.

Canadian National workers represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference will get a 3% annual pay raise under an arbitrator’s contract decision.

Two trade-dependent intermodal projects by BNSF Railway will move forward despite the Trump administration’s announcement of new tariffs.

A partnership of BNSF, Norfolk Southern and the Northwest Seaport Alliance are offering expedited service from the Pacific Northwest to the Chicago rail hub.

Railroads in January saw their share of North American transborder trade slip as trucks posted double-digit gains.

With an international intermodal surge winding down, analyst Larry Gross pins his hopes on domestic intermodal share gains.

Class 1 railroads saw mixed results in Q4 of 2024, but consultant Oliver Wyman sees a steadier year ahead.

Reflecting the tariff pull-forward, rail intermodal takes share from truckload.

For a fourth straight week, U.S. rail traffic has recorded an increase of more than 5% over the same week a year earlier. Statistics from the Association of American Railroads for the week ending March 22 show total traffic was 496,214 carloads and intermodal units, a 5.5% increase over the same week in 2024. That […]

Canadian ports on both coasts are grappling with extended dwell times, according to forwarder DHL’s March ports update.

CSX is detouring well over a dozen trains daily now that the Howard Street Tunnel project is underway in Baltimore.

Theft of cargo cost Class I railroads more than $100 million in 2024, according to the Association of American Railroads.

U.S. intermodal chassis manufacturers are again asking the federal government for protection against chassis made in Mexico, Vietnam and Thailand.

Railroads are weighing the uncertainty of President Trump’s proposed tariffs and foresee a moderate cross-border impact, executives told an investor conference.

BNSF’s saw fourth quarter revenue decline primarily due to a 6.6% drop in average revenue per carload.

Trains are rolling again on Norfolk Southern’s Heartland Corridor after flooding hit parts of West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia and Ohio.

Union Pacific will lease 1.25 miles of trackage in Kansas City, Missouri, to a new Jaguar Transport short line in March.

Carload volume on U.S. railroads for the week ending Feb. 15 finished narrowly ahead of the same period in 2024.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services said it will focus on what it can control as the industry awaits a meaningful recovery.

Freight market not tightening in time for bid season.

Universal Logistics lowered its 2025 guidance due to headwinds in the intermodal market and expenses from a recent acquisition.

Universal Logistics Holdings reported a 19% increase in operating revenue to $465.1 million in the fourth quarter.

US weekly rail traffic rebounds after a slight downturn.

British infrastructure investor Ancala and Arkadia Rail Partners have teamed up to purchase Lehigh Valley Rail Management.

Profits and revenue fell at Canadian National amid port work stoppages and extreme cold.

In the first State of Freight webinar for the year, intermodal and politics were on the agenda.

CPKC delivers on 2024 guidance of double-digit earnings growth, despite economic uncertainties and tariff threats.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services announced it has built a 40-acre solar farm that will provide electricity to most of its main corporate campus.