Search

At the end of the movie 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, newspaper editor Maxwell Scott tells Ransom Stoddard, 'This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print [...]

Launched 10 years ago next month, Eurostar is reaping the benefits from Section 1 of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link with rising traffic and record punctuality. Chief Executive Richard Brown [...]

Rail's share of the European freight market has risen to 35%, and competition between major private operators and a few state-owned companies ensures cost-effective and reliable service. Non-discriminatory access applies [...]

Concerns about the anticompetitive effects of consolidation in the railroad industry since deregulation have been widely noted. This article employs an econometric model designed to determine whether or not anticompetitive effects have occurred by estimating a measure of the market power of the typical Class I railroad. The article finds that market power bas decreased in the aggregate, but that market power remains much greater in some market segments than others. Several policy implications are discussed.

Listening to truckers talk about developments in their industry over the last few years invites a comparison to basketball. It's a fast-paced game that frequently changes pace. As the competition […]

Speakers at the Intermodal Assn of North America's spring 1993 meeting agreed that rail/truck intermodal transportation's continued growth depends on improved service and lower prices. Schneider National VP Woody Richardson said that cost benefits will lead to intermodal market-share gains, if intermodal carriers provide high-quality, reliable service. Mercer Management Consulting's Intermodal Index indicates that intermodal's market share will keep growing., As service providers improve quality and shippers feel an economic pinch, more freight moves to rail. 'We can't get away with being sloppy,' says Cynthia P. Lee, director-domestic marketing, CSX [...]

British railways are getting left behind continental European railways. British railways have been changed for good by privatisation and their link to continental railways via the Channel Tunnel. About 70% of British exports go to continental Europe. The Channel Tunnel and British railways are being subjected to more security and safety costs, thereby increasing traffic on the roads.

BNSF's top intermodal executive concedes the western railroads have permanently lost much of their East Coast market share to all-water container shipping services from Asia, but Steve Branscum says intermodal [...]

FRENCH National Railways (SNCF) president Mr Guillaume Pepy has urged high-speed rail operators to fight back against the growing threat to their business from other modes by embracing innovation to [...]

Staff The higher the cost of diesel fuel, the more price-competitive that rail is versus truck, says analyst Randy Cousins at BMO Capital Markets. That's why he believes such railroads [...]

Chief executive www.portofrotterdam.com Rapid growth in container volumes is redrawing Europe's inland transportation network. I call this 'dry multi-porting,' and it especially affects central Europe and the Baltic region. West [...]

Just when you thought it safe to go back in the water, the big truck advocates are at it again. Late in 2015, both Houses of Congress soundly defeated attempts [...]

Rail intermodal is catching it from all sides. The sector faces tough price competition from trucking, a cooling container import market, and a contraction in housing and automobile manufacturing that [...]

BNSF Railway under Matt Rose has become an industry leader in the intermodal sector. Intermodal has become one of the company's most important business units, proving that investments in developing [...]

The first few years of running the UK's two largest rail franchises were difficult for Virgin and its problems were well-reported in the media. By 2002, according to YouGov research, […]

Eurostar has posted record sales and passenger numbers, with sales up 7% in 2005 to #436.8m compared with 2004. Passenger numbers rose 2.4% to 7.45 million, fuelled by a 14% [...]

Eurostar has claimed its highest ever share of the London to Brussels route and has relaunched its business travel strategy. The high-speed train service announced a year- on-year jump of [...]

Eurostar sales, passenger numbers and market share increased 'substantially' in the first quarter of 2004. Between January and March, passenger numbers hit 1.6 million, up 19 per cent on the [...]

For the first time in years, truckers face cost increases. New hours-of-service regulations took effect January 4, the first change since 1939, and the effective reduction in capacity is driving […]

FERRIES and the Channel Tunnel remain popular ways of getting to France, despite losing market share to no-frills airlines. Operators claim the huge rise in no-frills routes in the past [...]

Think you have an inferiority complex? Try being Union Pacific's Fort Worth-El Paso manifest. Watch the intermodals fly by while you cool your heels in sidings--that's your typical day. If […]

So the Surface Transportation Board has dusted its hands of the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific merger of 1996, saying competition is healthy with just two Class 1 railroads in the Western […]

We have to be on the Oak Point Link by 7:15," says Canadian Pacific conductor Jim Lettis. Timing is everything. If his train doesn't make that window, three or four […]

Before the current reexamination of its merger rules, the Surface Transportation Board's policy was to preserve existing competition, not to improve the posture of any competitor. The 1996 Union Pacific-Southern […]

Eurostar trains in 2000 captured 62% of the air/rail market on the London-Paris routing and 46% of the market on the London-Brussels route. A headline in the Jan. 25 issue […]

Shipper interest in Conrail remains high. Almost 300 people attended last month's forum in Philadelphia on the status of the Conrail breakup. They heard reports from representatives of Norfolk Southern [...]

The Continental Rail Agents Consortium is seeking recruits and is calling on agents outside the group to book tickets through its members. Few UK agents do enough bookings for travel [...]

OVER 100 speakers from more than 30 countries are set to address delegates at the UTTP World Congress and Mobility & City Transport Exhibition at the Dubai World Trade Centre [...]

While Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway fight over dwindling intermodal space in Los Angeles, much smaller Kansas City Southern is slowly but steadily developing what it sees as the [...]