Before the shipping container, freight of every variety had to be loaded by hand onto ships and rail cars and trucks — a messy process that was slow, dangerous and expensive.

Two freight trains, including a container train and oil wagon train, were scheduled to leave the port for Dhaka and Sylhet respectively since early today but they did not due to the strike, said ...

Two weeks later, on Jan. 13, the shoes were still in the container, hurtling eastward on a BNSF train. The train was passing through a sparsely populated region of northern Arizona when ...

But oil capacity in pipelines is dwindling, with rail emerging as a popular means of moving crude oil. Between 2010 and 2014, oil by rail topped almost 1 million barrels a day , which represented ...

OAK PARK, Ill. (CBS) -- Thieves targeted shipping containers on a freight train in Oak Park Thursday afternoon. Police received a report of people stealing from trains along the Union Pacific ...

The South Western Railway ’s (SWR) Bengaluru division is considering the operation of double-stack dwarf container (DSDC) trains, a first for the region. To facilitate this change, SWR has ...

A train in Ayer, Massachusetts, was stopped on the tracks on March 23 when five cars fell over. The containers were full of trash and recycling, but all were sealed.

Coal shipments dropped 3.4%, oil and oil products 5.8%, and container traffic 6.2%. Transport of building materials fell 20.7%, ferrous metals 16%, industrial raw materials 19.2%, and grain ...

Most of the tall shipping containers that the train was hauling remained intact. California. Pipeline operators to plead no contest in Orange County oil spill and pay nearly $5 million.

But oil exports may be largely unscathed. U.S. rail imports of Canadian crude have fallen sharply in recent years, averaging around 55,000 barrels per day in May, U.S. Energy Information ...

U.S. rail imports of Canadian crude have fallen sharply in recent years, averaging around 55,000 barrels per day in May, U.S. Energy Information Administration data showed, the lowest since the ...

Before this month, train safety in general, not to mention specifically when it comes to the prospect of 35, two-mile-long trains loaded with crude oil traveling through the Grand Valley ...