Apr 22 2021
Earth Day calls for more intermodal worldwide
Today, Thursday 22 April it is Earth Day, also the start of the World Leaders Summit on Climate. There is no better day to highlight the benefits of intermodal freight transportation. This is exactly what was done by the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) and the International Union for Road-Rail Combined Transport (UIRR).
From a climate perspective, the intermodal system offers important benefits across a variety of dimensions: reducing congestion, saving money for both governments and shippers, providing increased transport capacity while at the same time benefiting the environment through reducing fossil fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.
US and European markets
In North America, high capacity and efficient rail intermodal trains move goods between cities, moving millions of trucks off the long-haul highways. Then trucks provide the flexible capability for the final miles that enable the intermodal option to be extended to and from shippers in all locations.
The European Combined Transport sector operates an extensive network of intermodal connections that provide the hinterland delivery of containers from deep-sea ports, as well as forward diverse cargo on continental relations. Electric rail traction and superior energy efficiency are crucial to achieve the very low carbon footprint of intermodal transport services. Read more
Source: RAILFREIGHT.COM