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FEC Railway Debuts Online Freight-Booking System

March 28, 2016
Florida East Coast Railway
The Florida East Coast Railway (FECR) has introduced EZ Buy, an online price quotation and booking system for the purchase of door-to-door intermodal freight moving between Southeast U.S. markets and South Florida.
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Railroad Trade Group Touts Investment in Safety and Innovation

January 28, 2016
AAR
An ultrasonic system to locate track defects and use of unmanned aerial vehicles for inspection of track, bridge and other freight rail infrastructure are among the technologies being explored by the railroad industry, according to a report from the Association of American Railroads.
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Railroad Technology Credited With Saving Millions in Fuel, Reducing Emissions

October 9, 2015
Environmental Leader
General Electric Transportation's emissions-reducing rail systems have accumulated 100 million auto-control miles, helping the rail industry save 56 million gallons of fuel and $197m in fuel costs, as well as reducing greenhouse gases by 628 kilotons.
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Month-long Price for Shutting Down U.S. Rail System Estimated at $30Bn

October 6, 2015
Miami Herald
A looming shutdown of the nation's rail system could have a bigger economic impact than the 2013 government shutdown and could even trigger a recession, according to a new report.
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Schneider Launches Cross-Border Customs Service; Adds Montreal Lane

October 2, 2015
Schneider Intermodal
Schneider Intermodal has created a new program for streamlining customs clearance for select shipments crossing the U.S.-Mexico border by rail.
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Best Practices in Use of Railcar Fulfillment Systems

August 28, 2015
Gary Neights, Director, Product Management, Elemica
Nearly everything in our lives is impacted by rail, from food products to chemicals and energy. Total U.S. weekly rail freight traffic for one week in January 2015 was 548,055 carloads and intermodal units, up 4.1 percent compared with the same week last year, as reported by the Association of American Railroads.
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Domestic Containers Spur Intermodal Growth in Q1 2015; Overall Global Outlook Positive

May 7, 2015
IANA
Total intermodal shipments rose 2 percent over last year's Q1 volumes, according to the Intermodal Association of North America, despite port congestion issues that impacted international container traffic. Domestic intermodal loads grew 4.5 percent, buoyed by domestic containers, which rose 6.5 percent in a quarter-over-quarter comparison.
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Cargomatic Debuts System to Ease Congestion at Southern Calif. Ports

March 19, 2015
Cargomatic
Cargomatic, provider of an app connecting shippers with small-fleet trucking companies, has devised an operating system aimed at alleviating congestion at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, as well as points beyond.
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Why Can't Europe's Rail Industry Be Competitive in Every Aspect?

February 2, 2015
BIFA
The Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE) has published a series of studies designed to understand why competition in the European railroad industry has been successfully implemented in some cases but in others has led to a decline in the modal share for rail freight.
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Rail Not Likely to Make Greater Use of GPS to Keep Tabs on Carts Soon

January 30, 2015
ABI Research
Tracking rail carts with GPS and cellular could bring value to the rail sector; however, penetration rates on rail carts are currently very low (globally less than 50,000 in 2014), and growth is not forecasted to be very strong over the next 5 years, or even the next 10, according to ABI Research. Therefore, for the time being at least, it looks like RFID will dominate this sector.
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