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Intermodal Freight Shipping
As an intermodal carrier, TRG Logistics provides complete intermodal shipping services, constantly monitoring the shipping status of your freight, including daily updates of your shipment so that you know exactly where your shipment is. We’re an Intermodal Marketing Company (IMC), a trusted freight shipping advisor and consultant you can trust for stream-lined freight transport planning and execution.
What is Intermodal Freight Shipping?
Intermodal Shipping is the movement of freight using more than one mode of travel where all parts of the transportation network are effectively connected and coordinated. An intermodal shipping system includes both origins and destinations (for example, ports railheads and warehouses), as well as the links between them (such as roads or rail). In an intermodal shiping network trains and trucks are connected in a seamless system that is efficient and flexible, and meets the needs of our valued clients and their precious cargo.
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TRG Logistics’ Intermodal freight shipping strategy maximizes the best rail transportation available by utilizing trailers and/or containers by rail and truck. TRG Logistics specializes in intermodal freight shipping, bringing flexibility, cost savings and tangible benefits to those moving freight, generally 1,000 miles or more. Typically, intermodal freight is shipped regionally, nationally and/or transcontinentally (Canada or Mexico).
What are the benefits of Intermodal Shipping?
 Intermodal shipping continues to evolve into an attractive, affordable, efficient and convenient form of transporting freight of all kinds. TRG Logistics utilizes Class 1 Rail Carriers – Union Pacific, BNSF, CSX, Norfolk Southern, Kansas City Southern, Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, and Ferrocarril Mexicano – and a variety of contract trucking carriers with single drivers and teams to ensure you capitalize on the most cost-effective, reliable means of shipping available.
An emerging market we specialize in is the organization and movement of containers (Maersk, Hanjin, APL, Hyundai, Kline, and others) by rail to west coast ports from eastern destinations after the cargo is unloaded.
As with all of our shipping methods, once you partner with TRG, you will get daily updates of the transit status, so you are never left wondering where your freight is.
Intermodal Shipping Options are Efficient and Environmentally Conscious
If you haven’t considered intermodal shipping, consider the following:
- Intermodal freight shipping is the number one segment of all rail shipments.
- A single intermodal train takes up to 280 trucks off our highways.
- Trains carrying other types of freight take up to 500 trucks off our highways.
- On average, railways are more than three times more fuel efficient than trucks.
- Nearly one billion gallons of fuel per year could be saved if only 10 percent of the freight that currently moves by truck were moved by rail.
- Freight railway fuel efficiency has risen 74% since 1980.
- Intermodal shipping saves 10-20% compared to shipping by truck only.
- Shifting freight from trucks to rail would reduce highway congestion, enhance mobility and reduce the pressure to build costly new highways.
- New intermodal shipping partnerships among rail, truck, and ocean carriers offer enhanced mobility by shifting traffic from congested highways to the private sector rail or marine shipping network, and environmental benefits by employing the cleanest possible technologies that improve air quality.
Contact Us at TRG Logistics with questions about intermodal freight shipping and begin the process of improving your shipping experience, performance and budget. TRG Logistics has shipping arrangements with Union Pacific, BNSF, CSX, Norfolk Southern, Kansas City Southern, Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, and Ferrocarril Mexicano among others.
Combined Shipping Solutions - Truckload, Train, LTL
TRG takes a complete approach to shipment, so if you need a combination of Truck, Train, and LTL to get your shipment moved we can handle it. |