Material Handling & Transportation
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AAR Reports October 2010 Rail Traffic Continues Mixed Progress
November 9, 2010The Association of American Railroads (AAR) has reported that monthly rail carloads for October 2010 were up 8.7 percent compared with the same period last year, but still down 7.9 percent compared with October 2008. According to AAR’s November Rail Time Indicators Report (RTI), the...
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Railroad Industry Awards 2010 Professional Environmental Excellence Award to David C. Clark
October 27, 2010The Association of American Railroads (AAR) has awarded the 2010 Professional Environmental Excellence Award to BNSF Railway director of environmental remediation, David C. Clark. Based in Topeka, KS, Clark has 35 years of environmental experience all within the rail industry. The award was...
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AAR and TTCI Announce Establishment of Research Advisory Board
October 27, 2010The Association of American Railroads (AAR) and the Transportation Technology Center Inc. (TTCI) have announced the establishment of a TTCI Research Advisory Board. Developed to provide feedback on AAR’s Strategic Research Initiatives and on how TTCI can best serve the AAR Affiliates and the...
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Jervis B. Webb Co. Awarded Multi-Million Dollar Biomass Handling Contract
October 27, 2010Jervis B. Webb Co., a subsidiary of Daifuku Co., Ltd. and leading provider of material handling solutions, has announced a contract with Covanta Energy Corp. to design, engineer, and manufacture an ash-handling system in Kapolei, Hawaii. The project is the result of an expansion by Covanta and also...
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AAR Reports Rail Traffic Continues to Show Improvement
October 22, 2010The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reports that weekly rail traffic continues to show improvement over 2009 levels with U.S. railroads originating 303,664 carloads for the week ending Oct. 16, 2010, up 10.1 percent compared with the same week last year. AAR will no longer report 2010...
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AAR Reports Rail Traffic Continues to Post Gains Over 2009
October 17, 2010The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported that weekly rail traffic continues to post gains over 2009 levels with U.S. railroads originating 297,029 carloads for the week ending Oct. 9, 2010, up 8.8 percent compared with the same week last year. AAR will no longer report 2010...
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AAR Reports September 2010 Rail Traffic Continues Measured Recovery
October 13, 2010The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reports that monthly rail carloads on U.S. railroads in September 2010 were up 7.7 percent compared with the same period last year, but still down 7.5 percent compared with September 2008. According to AAR’s October Rail Time Indicators Report, the...
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AAR Reports Weekly Rail Traffic Maintains Steady Pace
October 8, 2010The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported that weekly rail traffic continues to maintain a steady pace with U.S. railroads originating 299,394 carloads for the week ending Oct. 2, 2010, up 7.7 percent compared with the same week in 2009, but down 10.7 percent from the same week in...
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AAR Reports Another Record Week in Intermodal Traffic
October 4, 2010The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reports that U.S. railroads saw the highest weekly intermodal volume for 2010 and highest container count on record for the second consecutive week. For the week ending Sept. 25, 2010, intermodal traffic on U.S. railroads totaled 241,167 trailers and...
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Columbian TecTank First to Receive Cat's Internal Combustion Pneumatic Tire Lift Trucks
September 14, 2010Cat Lift Trucks has delivered the first new P8000-P12000/PD8000-PD12000 series of internal combustion pneumatic tire lift trucks to the Columbian TecTank manufacturing facility in Parsons, KS. Columbian TecTank, a global leader in the design, manufacturing, and installation of factory-coated...
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