The chairman of the US Surface Transportation Board urged railroads to focus less on serving Wall Street investors and more on serving shippers, employees, and the public interest — or else the agency may have to intervene. CSX restricts domestic container flows in Chicago again. CSX has been restricting how many domestic containers can be brought into Bedford Park, Illinois, causing shippers to pay accessorial fees, or consider alternatives such as Norfolk Southern Railway or spot market trucking to get their goods out of Chicago.
Railroads look to ease inland congestion through metering. US railroads have begun to control the number of containers leaving ports on trains per day to tailor volume to equipment and labor capacity, but some are skeptical this new strategy will resolve the crippling congestion in inland US markets. JOC Research: Contract rail savings widen, but spot business may flip to truck.
Intermodal shippers saved record amounts of money in the second quarter, but rate hikes in California, Texas, and Washington will make trucks the cheaper option on transactional loads in the western US going forward. CSX and Union Pacific are working hard to restore fluidity on intermodal networks, but both companies said that issues may persist through the end of the year. CSX cuts appointment slots in Chicago amid widespread congestion.
CSX has temporarily cut the number of reservations to bring in domestic containers in Chicago because of overwhelming volume, a common theme among the Class I railroads struggling in the Windy City. NS, UP squeezed by foot chassis pinch. Norfolk Southern Railway and Union Pacific Railroad are having trouble getting containers to shippers, in part because their supply of foot chassis is very low. US drayage drivers quitting as rail ramp congestion crimps pay. An exodus of drayage drivers to the flatbed and dry van truckload sectors is further limiting already constrained capacity and equipment availability in key inland markets.
Shipper status updates could mitigate chassis shortages: transportation providers. Land use has been a problem as imports have surged across top US ports, causing issues on how to balance space to devote to inbound and outbound containers in key interior cities. JOC Research: Intermodal savings hit records, but could be short lived. Memphis shippers ask STB to intervene on intermodal congestion. A group of Memphis shippers and truckers want the US Surface Transportation Board to instruct railroads to stop charging storage fees until a chassis shortage is resolved.
Intermodal rail savings versus trucking hit record highs. CSX trains are traveling faster and idling shorter than any Class I in Train speeds have increased nearly 15 percent through September, the only Class I railroad in positive territory this year, according to the American Association of Railroads, Surface Transportation Board, and company reports. International containers with Tampa and Miami destinations will reroute to central Florida in several cases.
International routes into Kansas City will mostly transfer to east St. Louis, and many lanes to Louisville, Kentucky, and Pittsburgh will end altogether. The port of Savannah will lose one route to Louisville, and Charleston will lose one to Miami. These sweeping changes by CSX will be felt more by domestic shippers moving foot containers. Consistent with previous changes, lanes to and from Baltimore will change to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, while Columbus routes will shift to North Baltimore, Ohio.
Domestic intermodal through Pittsburgh, Tampa, Miami, and Kansas City will be eliminated or rerouted in similar ways to international freight. CSX also announced seven new domestic lanes beginning Dec.
Schneider National, a domestic intermodal supplier, warned customers of the impacts in Savannah, and Marion, Ohio, which is a midway point between Columbus, North Baltimore, and Cleveland. It should be noted, however, that Savannah, Charleston, and Portsmouth are port communities that concentrate on international rail traffic more than domestic. Although few shippers or intermodal marketing companies IMCs react positively to service adjustments, a three-month lead time may mend some wounds.
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