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State of Logistics 2016: Pursue mutual benefit Despite sluggish volumes, IANA’s Casey makes case for future intermodal growth at RailTrends Connected Devices and Industrial Control Systems Expose Manufacturers to Cyber Threats Railroad leaders stress importance of trade deals KCS and BNSF team up for cross-border intermodal service to begin in December More Logistics News Planning for Tomorrow’s Last Mile Trends in last mile delivery Thursday, December 1, 2016 | 2pm ET All Resources Even in trying economic times, intermodal transportation has sometimes been viewed as a bedrock of sorts as a calm amid the storm when it comes to a mode that has been able to hold its own at times when other modal volume progressions have been more bumpy or jagged. In recent years, intermodal has been largely paced by gains in domestic containers, and while this segment is still mostly showing growth, it is no longer the rising tide that lifts all boats, so to speak, when it comes to steady intermodal growth. That has been made clear with data issued in recent quarters in the Intermodal Association of North America’s (IANA) Market Trends & Statistics Report. In its most recent edition, which covered the third quarter of this year, IANA reported that the third quarter marked the second consecutive quarter that intermodal volumes saw an annual decline, following 25 straight quarters of growth, with total third quarter intermodal volume movements at 4,348,634 for a 4.6 percent annual decline. Like the second quarter, domestic containers were up, but trailers continued their steep declines, and ISO, or international, were also off, too. IANA explained that the Q3 ISO decline is somewhat difficult to explain, as international intermodal volume tends to move in tandem with container import growth, with a large gap having opened up between the growth of […]