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Officials in El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, said they are proceeding with an elevated, electric rail shuttle to move truck trailers and intermodal freight containers across the border that separates the two cities.

Echo Global Logistics said its fourth-quarter operating income rose, and its revenue increased by almost 30% from the same quarter a year earlier.

Intermodal container volume for 2012 rose 5.9% to an all-time high of 13.1 million units, the Intermodal Association of North America said Thursday.

U.S. trailer makers took in more orders for new equipment in 2012 than in any other year since 2006, and said they have a strong enough backlog to keep busy through the middle of this year, even as the economy has cooled.

Consumer confidence rose in January, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index released Friday.

Hub Group Inc.’s fourth-quarter profit rose 11% as its intermodal and truck brokerage operations improved.