Port of Tacoma

The Port of Los Angeles has reported that July 2024 was its busiest month in more than two years and the best July in the Port’s 116-year history. (Port of Los Angeles Photograph)

Intermodal Briefs: Port of LA, USDOT

An early peak season helps boost July volumes at the Port of Los Angeles, Calif. Also, the Port of Oakland, Calif., and the Northwest Seaport Alliance in Washington State join the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Freight Logistics Optimization Works (FLOW) initiative.

UP has opened its grain transload facility collocated at the Global IV intermodal terminal in Joliet, Ill. (Photograph Courtesy of UP)

Class I Briefs: BNSF, UP

Service and capital project updates were the focus of Oct. 27 customer messages from BNSF Group Vice President, Consumer Products Tom Williams and Union Pacific (UP) Executive Vice President, Marketing and Sales Kenny Rocker.