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Large investments were made in intermodal freight projects. An example was the US$740 million Port of Oakland intermodal rail facility begun in the late 1980s. [2] [3] Since 1984, a mechanism for intermodal shipping known as double-stack rail transport has become increasingly common. Rising to the rate of nearly 70% of the United States ...
Numbers Notes GL: Diesel 1971/72 remanufactured 2004 Co-Co 2 GL111, GL112 leased from Chicago Freight Car Leasing Australia: XRN: 2010-12 30 XRN001-030 owned by Xstrata: CF: 2013 2 CF4407, CF4408 leased from Chicago Freight Car Leasing Australia G: 1988 2 G533, G535
ISO 6346 is an international standard covering the coding, identification and marking of intermodal (shipping) containers used within containerized intermodal freight transport by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). [1]
They ensure a unique code-number for every shipping container in the world. They started with the European 'Pa-container' system, and they must still be registered with BIC. The Customs Convention on Containers (CCC-1972) in a recent amendment, enforced since 2008, also makes reference to the ISO 6346 standard, and code registration with BIC ...
Hub Group, Inc. is a transportation and logistics management company in North America. A publicly traded company with over $5 billion in revenue, [3] Hub Group was founded in 1971 by Phillip Yeager, and is currently run by his grandson, Phillip D. Yeager.
Since the law was passed, the number of new firms has increased dramatically, especially low-cost, non-union carriers. By 1990, the number of licensed carriers exceeded 40,000, more than twice as in 1980. Combined with the Staggers Act (1980), intermodal freight transport surged, expanding 70 percent between 1981 and 1986. [citation needed]
NR16 hauling The Overland at North Shore, November 2008. In February 2002, National Rail's freight operations and rollingstock, jointly owned by the Federal, New South Wales and Victorian Governments, were combined with FreightCorp, owned by the New South Wales Government, [1] and sold to a joint venture between Patrick Corporation and Toll Holdings, trading as Pacific National.
Total Quality Logistics (TQL) is a North American freight brokerage and third-party logistics firm. [4] It was founded in 1997 by Ken Oaks in Cincinnati, and is headquartered in nearby Union Township, Clermont County, Ohio, United States.