Boeing has patented a design for an airplane that can pick up and carry containers in its belly, Popular Mechanics reported. In the patent, the plane is able to lower itself onto a row of standardized ...

ROCHELLE PARK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ORBCOMM Inc. (Nasdaq:ORBC), a global provider of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) solutions, today announced a multi-year agreement with Hub Group, Inc. (Hub Group) ...

Union Pacific Thursday ceremonially commenced construction of its $370 million, 785-acre Joliet Intermodal Terminal in Illinois, saying the facility “will support customer growth by increasing the ...

The use of ISO tank containers in transportation, particularly overseas in Europe and Asia, has grown exponentially over the last two decades, going from approximately 200,000 containers through the ...

ORBCOMM Inc, a global provider of machine-to-machine (M2M) systems, announced a multi-year agreement with Hub Group Inc to deploy ORBCOMM’s GT 2300 state-of-the-art intermodal container tracking and ...

TONIGHT WITH WHAT IT COULD BRING TO THE AREA. THE INTERMODAL PORT ULWO USE THE ARKANSAS RIVER, NEARBY INTERSTATES AND RAILROADS TO LOAD AND UNLOAD CARGO CONTAINERS. IT'S BEEN PLANNED FOR MORE THAN 10 ...

Intermodal freight transportation is booming, but port congestion and problems getting enough containers and chassis to the right place at the right time are snarling logistics for many companies.

The domestic intermodal industry has long been plagued by an inability to accurately track and report, in a timely manner, the status of a container in transit. Historically, that’s put intermodal at ...

Hub Group (CCJ Top 250, No. 34) is purchasing the intermodal assets of refrigerated heavyweight Marten Transport (No. 37). The $51.8 million acquisition of Marten Intermodal adds 1,200 refrigerated ...

The intermodal container business has allowed many companies to shift longer-haul freight to rails in the face of tight capacity and a driver shortage. But in recent years, Schneider and a handful of ...

One of the fastest-growing areas of hazardous materials transportation is that of intermodal containers. During 2003, a total of 9,502,563 intermodal containers were shipped by rail and 1,227,852 were ...