Canadian National and CSX Intermodal Launch Joint Intermodal Services Linking Canada and the U.S. Northeast, Florida and Midwest.Business Editors MONTREAL and JACKSONVILLE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 28, 2001 Railroads Offer Five-day Service Between Vancouver, B.C., and New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Canadian National (CN) and CSX CSX Chessie Seaboard Multiplier (railroad transportation company) CSX Cayman Islands Stock Exchange CSX Changsha, China (Airport Code) CSX Cardiac-Specific Homeobox CSX Seaboard Coastline Railroad Intermodal (CSXI) today introduced a range of new intermodal services connecting major Canadian and United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. markets. The CN-CSXI marketing agreement offers shippers highly-competitive, five-day service for coast-to-coast intermodal traffic moving between Vancouver, B.C., and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of (Kearny, N.J.) Other key lanes include Toronto-Florida (four days) and Toronto-New York (two days). James M. Foote, CN's executive vice-president, sales and marketing, said: "The CN-CSXI intermodal marketing agreement is a good example of how railroads can work together more efficiently to increase market share in an intensely competitive North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. transportation marketplace. "This marketing agreement allows CN and CSXI to expand their market reach significantly. For the first time, shippers using CN in Canada now have effective intermodal connections to major centers in the U.S. Northeast - the largest manufacturing and consumer base in the U.S.- namely New York, Boston and Philadelphia. These shippers will also benefit from efficient intermodal links to other eastern and southern U.S. markets. All of these services should be attractive to shippers of high-value consumer goods consumer goods Any tangible commodity purchased by households to satisfy their wants and needs. Consumer goods may be durable or nondurable. Durable goods (e.g., autos, furniture, and appliances) have a significant life span, often defined as three years or more, and in Canada and the U.S., as well as international shippers moving products into and out of North America via the ports of Vancouver and Halifax." CSXI President and Chief Executive Officer Clarence Gooden said: "Combining the reach of our railroads and the quality of our service creates a tremendous opportunity for shippers. This is truck-competitive service with truck-competitive reliability offered at rail intermodal rates." Shippers will benefit from one-stop intermodal shopping under this marketing agreement -- CN and CSXI each have the ability to "through" price originating traffic destined des·tine tr.v. des·tined, des·tin·ing, des·tines 1. To determine beforehand; preordain: a foolish scheme destined to fail; a film destined to become a classic. 2. to points on either network, which will result in improved pricing response time. Shippers will also enjoy efficient "steel-wheel" interchange of intermodal traffic at the Chicago and Buffalo gateways. The new CN-CSXI intermodal products are available between: - Western Canada and the U.S. Northeast via the Buffalo gateway; - Western Canada and the U.S. Southeast, Florida and Mid-South via the Chicago gateway, and - Eastern Canada and markets in the I-95 corridor along the Eastern Seaboard via the Buffalo gateway. Canadian National Railway Company Canadian National Railway Company (NYSE: CNI, TSX: CNR) is a Canadian rail transportation company that operates the Canadian National Railway. It was created in December, 1918 as a Crown corporation of the Government of Canada to nationalize several bankrupt rail systems spans Canada and mid-America, from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, to the Gulf of Mexico Noun 1. Gulf of Mexico - an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico Golfo de Mexico Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east , serving the ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert, B.C., Montreal, Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the key cities of Toronto, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, St. Louis, and Jackson, Miss., with connections to all points in North America. CSXI Intermodal is an integrated intermodal company serving domestic U.S. and international customers throughout the U.S. from origin to destination with its own truck, rail and terminal operations. As part of the CSX Corporation family of companies, its traffic predominantly uses the rail network of CSX Transportation. |
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