New Service Comparable With Trucking Option, BNSF Railway Says
BNSF Railway will offer intermodal customers a new service option to move commodities and a wide range of consumer goods between Portland, Oregon, or Seattle and the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The option cuts two days off rail transit time choices currently in the marketplace and are comparable in speed with single-driver, over-the-road options, the company said.
By leveraging underutilized capacity in the central section of its network, the new option means that BNSF will offer expedited service for customers who wish to have their shipments arrive in Dallas-Fort Worth on the morning of the fifth transit day, according to the rail company.
This service option, the first of other new routes that will be announced and rolled out over the next year, comes online just in time for the fall fruit harvest in the Pacific Northwest and will help local businesses get their products to market more efficiently, the Fort Worth-based company said.
From BNSF’s intermodal facility located just north of Fort Worth, customers can reach any major Texas or Oklahoma market with a shorthaul trucking option to move containers and trailers for dry or refrigerated goods, the company said.
Northbound service also will be faster operating with both expedited service arriving on the sixth morning and standard service reaching its destination on the sixth day, according to BNSF.
Traffic along the route will run Monday through Friday in both directions. This route includes a refueling option along the way for refrigerated equipment that carries temperature-sensitive cargo.
