High visibility and sustainability. Fast, smooth and efficient service across coast-to-coast and even regional routes. Elevated security. All are essential to today’s supply chains, and more and more shippers are finding they can access all of these qualities in a surprising place: intermodal.
The fact is, intermodal has been typecast as slow, unreliable and best suited only for coast-to-coast moves where shippers must trade speed and visibility for lower cost. But times have very much changed.
Shippers can now access intermodal services that offer end-to-end visibility, enhanced security, and low CO2 emissions, and intermodal can be fast and cost-efficient for even 600- to 1,000-mile lanes. In an era of fuel volatility and tightening truckload capacity, intermodal is a core strategy for building a modern, resilient supply chain…