BNSF starts Pacific Northwest to Texas intermodal service
September 3rd, 2016
September 2, 2016 - feedstuffs.com -
Beginning Sept. 12, BNSF Railway will offer intermodal customers a new service option to move freight between the Pacific Northwest and Texas.
Shippers who move commodities and a wide range of consumer goods between Portland, Ore., or Seattle, Wash., and Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas, (AllianceTexas) will now be able to reduce their transit times by up to two days compared to rail transit time options currently in the marketplace. The new BNSF service will be comparable in speed to single-driver, over-the-road options.
“We regularly work with our customers to identify and offer new and better transportation solutions to make their supply chains more effective. So, we are constantly looking for opportunities to help meet consumer demands, and this new service checks all the right boxes for adding efficiency to the marketplace,” said Katie Farmer, group vice president of Consumer Products for BNSF. “With an economy as dynamic as ours, BNSF is focused on delivering options that strengthen the competitive advantage of U.S. companies through our country’s supply chain.”
The new service option — the first of other new routes that will be announced and rolled out over the next year — comes on line just in time for the fall fruit harvest in the Pacific Northwest and will help local businesses get their products to market more efficiently, the company explained. Faster, more direct routing means agricultural producers can move apples and other produce to southern markets at the peak of freshness.
Read more: http://feedstuffs.com/story-bnsf-launches-pacific-northwest-texas-intermodal-service-45-146211
Beginning Sept. 12, BNSF Railway will offer intermodal customers a new service option to move freight between the Pacific Northwest and Texas.
Shippers who move commodities and a wide range of consumer goods between Portland, Ore., or Seattle, Wash., and Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas, (AllianceTexas) will now be able to reduce their transit times by up to two days compared to rail transit time options currently in the marketplace. The new BNSF service will be comparable in speed to single-driver, over-the-road options.
“We regularly work with our customers to identify and offer new and better transportation solutions to make their supply chains more effective. So, we are constantly looking for opportunities to help meet consumer demands, and this new service checks all the right boxes for adding efficiency to the marketplace,” said Katie Farmer, group vice president of Consumer Products for BNSF. “With an economy as dynamic as ours, BNSF is focused on delivering options that strengthen the competitive advantage of U.S. companies through our country’s supply chain.”
The new service option — the first of other new routes that will be announced and rolled out over the next year — comes on line just in time for the fall fruit harvest in the Pacific Northwest and will help local businesses get their products to market more efficiently, the company explained. Faster, more direct routing means agricultural producers can move apples and other produce to southern markets at the peak of freshness.
Read more: http://feedstuffs.com/story-bnsf-launches-pacific-northwest-texas-intermodal-service-45-146211