Rail Systems Use Technology and Big Data to Improve Safety, Efficiency

As shippers, carriers and logistics firms around the globe put more technology in place to both address their current challenges and prepare for what’s coming around the next corner, some core infrastructure providers are taking similar steps. Any company shipping break bulk and using rail, for example, will be happy to know that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad…

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Railroads Feel Pinch from Oil Prices

North American railroad companies have faced accelerating slowdowns, with volumes falling faster than executives had predicted, according to report on Bloomburg Business. With energy companies scaling back drilling after prices for the commodity fell about 50 percent since July, industry executives and analysts anticipated that demand for hauling crude and extraction materials such as frac sand and pipes would slow…

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