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TRUCKING INDUSTRY ATTN * USA - Country Rails are being built and refurbished for a cheaper form of transportation than trucks
All aboard? Why the old-fashioned freight train might make a comeback
Manchester,NH,USA -The Manchester HippoPress, by Brian Early -16 May 2008: -- A few times a week, Peter Dearness runs a freight train between Concord and Manchester. It’s a short distance, but a round trip can take four hours or more, traveling mostly at 10 mph. On a recent run from Manchester to Concord, Dearness hauled about 2,200 tons of freight. It took 18 cars. For that trip, he might have used eight gallons of diesel fuel. The same amount hauled in a truck would take approximately 54 tractor trailers and 152 gallons of diesel to make the 17-mile trip...Even within some regions, companies are looking back to rails as a way to move their goods from city to city. For bulk commodities, like the coal that fuels Public Service of New Hampshire’s Bow facility, using trucks instead of trains to move the product would increase the shipping cost dramatically. Trains allow shippers to move a large quantity of product with relative ease... But here in the Northeast, rail has some problems...* Report: Transport mergers & acquisitions slowing
New York,NY,USA -Today's Trucking (CAN) -16 May 2008: -- Both deal volume and value in the transportation and logistics industry declined during the first quarter of 2008, according to the PricewaterhouseCoopers, and global deal activity is not on track to match the levels seen in 2007... However, in its first-quarter 2008 edition of "Intersections: Global Transportation & Logistics Mergers and Acquisitions Analysis.," the company reports that the 45 deals (worth at least $50 million each) announced in the first quarter is on track to exceed 2006 levels...
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