advertisement

---

Norfolk Southern Railway and Kansas City Southern recently partnered to begin offering TMX, a new 53-foot, rail-controlled container program in a dedicated route between KCS' intermodal facilities in Toluca, San Luis Potosi and Monterrey, Mexico, and NS' intermodal facilities in Atlanta and Charlotte, N.C.

The program features a newly built 53-foot container fleet, truck-competitive and unbundled ramp-to-ramp service, and efficient customs clearance for both northbound and southbound freight, according to the Class Is.

TMX is a cost-effective and transit-competitive option, particularly for non-asset based intermodal shippers, NS and KCS officials said in a program announcement.

Meanwhile, Pacer International and CRST International have forged multi-market dedicated drayage agreements aimed at driving intermodal drayage efficiencies and providing incremental capacity for Pacer, an intermodal services provider. In addition, CRST formed a separate operating unit, CRST IMX, within its Dedicated Services Inc. subsidiary to provide the drayage service.

CRST IMX will market, sell, and operate a network of intermodal drayage and other short-haul trucking services. Both Pacer and CRST plan to add 200 trucks this year, with the first markets to be established in Chicago and Salt Lake City, Utah.

“The establishment of CRST dedicated contract agreements will allow Pacer to expand its dray capacity while tightly integrating the critical order management, street route planning, and dispatch management processes,” said Pacer International Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Dan Avramovich in a prepared statement.