The Resilience of the Railroad Industry Lindsay Millar, Jessica Settlecowski & Mike Gawel MGT 674 March 23, 2013 The history and resilience of the railway industry is rather remarkable as it has helped shape the landscape and the formation of the United States. Railways allowed colonies to settle in the West and the country suddenly became connected from coast to coast. This encouraged the exchange of goods and stimulated the development of towns and communities along track lines. Soldiers
Words: 5841 - Pages: 24
The increasing need to efficiently move freight globally will need to continue to grow in order to meet the demands of an expanding world population. It is predicted by 2035 the United States will be required to move over 37, 211 million tons of freight across the country (U.S., 2008). In order to meet this increasing future demand, freight will be required to move from place of origin to final destination as quickly as possible while trying to keep costs down. Intermodal transportation is the
Words: 1246 - Pages: 5
Norfolk Southern The rail freight industry has had fluctuations in achievements with regards to various ways of shipment. The competition of shipment with various other means available in terms of sky and highway has made rail transportation less desirable. Rail freight is very inflexible; which is the reason why road freight transport has become very popular. The current status of rail freight transportation is not very efficient. In terms of the process of how Southern Norfolk and its associated
Words: 656 - Pages: 3
Union Pacific is the largest freight railroad in North America. In 2007 they transported over one trillion ton-miles of freight earning revenues of $16.28 billion. They operate on 32,000 miles of rail covering the United States west of the Mississippi. Union Pacific is a successful firm both externally and organizationally. The Class I Freight Railroad industry encompasses the seven largest railroads in North America. In the U.S., where Union Pacific operates, Class I Freight Railroads move more than
Words: 9753 - Pages: 40
Containerization and Global Supply Chains Containerization was a major technological innovation that revolutionized the nature of maritime based freight transport of manufactured goods. It caused a substantial degree of standardization of port services. With containerization, ports in the same region become closer substitutes, and hence are more exposed to competition from other ports and other routes. This tendency is reinforced by two other factors. First, the use of ever larger container vessels
Words: 487 - Pages: 2
coordinated door-to-door efficient delivery of freight using two or more dissimiliar modes of transport. A. True B. False Question 5 of 20 5.0 Points Transport integration across modes faces additional complex problems rising from Correctinstitutiona l and Correctregulatory choices made at several levels of hte government. Question 6 of 20 5.0 Points Types of firms important for outsourcing and intermodal coordination include: A. freight forwarders B. container leasing
Words: 630 - Pages: 3
During 2006, Containerisation had celebrated its 50th anniversary on the invention which had a major impact on global production and distribution departments. If globalisation is an economic phenomenon that thrives in all capital and trade while maintaining a global relationship with cultures and the people circulated within this climate, then containerisation is one of the core rationales behind the robust interaction between different nations and thus facilitated globalisation (Levinson, 2006)
Words: 3548 - Pages: 15
Intermodal Transportation Intermodal transportation has changed the transportation industry Charles Terry Anders Student ID 4097220 TLMT 331 American Military University Professor John Ensor 8/11/12 Abstract There are two types of intermodal transportation and they are one is about moving of the people and the other is the movement of cargo using more than one type of mode of transportation. In the paper the goal is to share the information about the types of shipping methods that
Words: 1690 - Pages: 7
Sarah Allmond, Kamal Assaf, Doug Bice, and Renee Burkart Dr. Mike Marzano Logistics Management February 21, 2013 Infrastructure in India India’s port, road, and rail networks need massive capital investment. The ports in India are operating beyond their intended capacity in spite of the construction of a number of new sites. Moreover, there are bottlenecks when clearing goods from customs: the time required to clear goods in India is twice that of South Korea and Thailand and three times that
Words: 4315 - Pages: 18
CHAPTER – I INTRODUCTION The Role of Container Transport It is widely acknowledged fact that container transport has a crucial role to play in economic Development. More specifically, it has been recognized that the provision of a high quality container transport system is a necessary precondition for the full participation of remote communities in the benefits of national development: Transport volumes in India remain much less than those in the developed countries
Words: 6753 - Pages: 28
