ATLANTA — Norfolk Southern this week ended restrictions on international intermodal service linking five of its Midwestern terminals with West Coast ports.
“We are instituting this customer-centric, operations-driven solution for shipments originating at Appliance Park [Louisville, Ky.], Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, and Detroit, and we look forward to the positive impact these adjustments will have on the supply chain at large,” NS said in a customer announcement on Monday.
Previously NS restricted the in-gating of international containers at the terminals three days per week. An exception was the Columbus to Seattle service via BNSF Railway interchange at Chicago, which was restricted on Sunday and Monday.
The lifting of restrictions covers containers bound for interline service with BNSF and Union Pacific and includes destinations in the Pacific Northwest, Northern California, and Southern California.
Question related to the article: why was in-gating of international boxes restricted to begin with? PSR limitations?
The spelling, grammar and institutional knowledge behind the online product has taken a dip since Mr. Sweeney left.
That is Huntingdon, PA, not Huntington, that’s a CSX town, nowhere near the Pittsburgh Line. Named for the Countess of Huntingdon I believe. It was a major canal town and later a major stop on PRR’s Middle Division. Hunt Tower is also preserved on its original location and the PRR station still stands. The current alignment is on the former canal bed, dating from 1890, through the station, an Amtrak stop.