Privately owned less-than-truckload carrier Estes announced it has closed on lease purchases of seven terminals previously operated by now-defunct Yellow Corp. The Richmond, Virginia-based company said Thursday that the new locations will result in a net increase of 290 doors to its national network of 11,832. Estes has added 508 doors this year, a 4.5%…
This story originally appeared on Trains.com. OTTAWA — Canada’s freight rail work stoppage — the first to shut down both Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Kansas City simultaneously — is over.Labor Minister Steven MacKinnon on Thursday afternoon ordered the railways to resume operations after sending the disputes to binding arbitration. The work stoppage began at…
A $750,000 grant from a state-owned rail corridor is helping to establish a rail-served, first-of-its-kind battery gigafactory in North Carolina. The North Carolina Railroad Co. joined several key economic development organizations on Natron Energy’s first sodium ion battery production facility project in the United States. California-based Natron will spend an estimated $1.4 billion on the…
Trucking industry and logistics leaders said the lockout by Canada’s two largest railroads on Thursday could produce severe consequences for domestic and cross-border carriers. The contract dispute between Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) and 9,300 employees represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) is centered around higher pay and improved…
Canada’s largest railroads, Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Kansas City, early Thursday locked out 9,300 union employees represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), shutting down the country’s rail network in a move that is expected to disrupt supply chains across North America. The lockout of train crews and control personnel at 12:01 a.m….