From the Mine to the Sea: Optimizing Multi-Party Logistics Asset-intensive industries, including mining and industrial products, are often dependent on transportation and logistics assets that are owned or controlled by third parties. Developing an efficient, coordinated program to fund capacity expansion across each entity can involve a complex range of potentially conflicting objectives within each … Continue reading Transport and Logistics Part03 →

Transport and Logistics Network Capacity: Improving Usage, Increased Demands: Over the past three decades, Class I railroads worked diligently to reduce their overall network, primarily by spinning off lower-density lines to shorthaul partners. The rally in freight traffic over the past decade however has exposed bottlenecks in the system and created a need for capacity … Continue reading Transport and Logistics Part 02 →

Transport and Logistics The Complex Future of the North American Rail Network: It can be difficult to remember, in the midst of today’s tough economic news that we are in the second “golden age” of North American railroading. In the past several years, all of the Class I’s have seen increased profitability and service levels, … Continue reading Part01: Transport and Logistics →