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63rd Annual Food Shippers of America Conference

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63rd Annual Food Shippers of America Conference. Kenney attended the 63rd Annual Food Shippers of America Conference in Phoenix Arizona from March 11-13 2018. Richard was kind enough to provide us with a firsthand account of the 2-day conference. There were over 2000 attendees at the conference, which took place at the J.W.

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Union Pacific rolls out ‘Unified Plan 2020’ to lower OR, improve network efficiency

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Some of the “key principles” of Unified Plan 2020 cited by UP include: shifting the focus of operations from moving trains to moving cars; minimizing car dwell, car classification events, and locomotive power requirements; utilizing general-purpose trains by blending existing train services; and.

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Intermodal providers tout reliability for shippers | Full Stories – Caption as the Content | Full

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Senate Agriculture Committee eager to hear the Trump administration’s plans to respond to impacts on an industry reeling from retaliatory tariffs. However, in the first half of 2018, intermodal units moved by NS were 8 percent higher than in the first half of 2017, but he noted growth can be much higher in certain areas. .