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Union Pacific Trains Handling Peak Holiday Shipping
Union Pacific is doing its part to ensure the nation's peak holiday shipping season meets with Santa's expectations. North America's largest railroad is operating on demand at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and has been satisfying demand since May of this year. To illustrate the volume of port containers moving on Union Pacific, five intermodal trains would be required to handle the arrival of a vessel carrying 2,250 40-foot containers. It is the dock operator's responsibility to unload and transfer containers to waiting trains -- and the railroad's responsibility to ensure cars, locomotives and crews are in place. Most containers arriving at the ports that are not processed on the dock are driven to Union Pacific's ICTF terminal. At ICTF, trains have been running on demand since Labor Day.Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-11-05 |
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