Intermodal Advantage
According to the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals State of Logistics Report, transportation comprises 66% of total logistics costs. Failing to proactively manage your transportation network can cause these costs to rise as trucking challenges such as driver shortages and productivity-hampering trucking regulations constrict capacity in the years ahead.
If you seek to minimize supply chain disruption, mitigate supply risk and lower transportation costs, intermodal can be a powerful solution to your company. Adding intermodal into your transportation mix delivers tangible cost savings. Incorporating multiple modes of transportation into your carrier base reduces reliance on a single source of capacity.
Supply chain leaders who use multimodal freight moves realize short and long-term benefits through leveraging the strengths of each mode of transportation.
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Truck capacity will tighten up in less than a year with the implementation of electronic logging devices (ELDs) and other regulations. Securing intermodal capacity ahead of time will ensure your company is ready. |
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CSXT's intermodal network offers nationwide connectivity including the broadest reach in the East. Check out our service capability with our interactive map. |
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Ongoing investments in rail infrastructure continue to expand the reach of intermodal service to nearly every market connecting lengths of haul as short as 500 miles.
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Transportation comprises 66% of a company’s total logistical costs. Integrating an intermodal solution into your transportation portfolio can save over 20%.
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Proper modal selection for the movement of goods is a critical component of managing an optimal supply chain. Supply chain managers who deploy an intermodal rail solution to eliminate sub-optimized freight today will bring predictability and diversified capacity sources to their transportation networks tomorrow.
THE NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF SUB-OPTIMIZED FREIGHT:
Understanding and identifying sub-optimal freight is easy with the H2R Optimizer. The H2R Optimizer identifies the over-the-road freight within your complete transportation network that is most conducive to intermodal conversion, maximizing your opportunity for cost savings.
Only 4% of shippers have completely eliminated sub-optimized truckload freight from their networks through intermodal conversion. Are you among the 96% who will be at risk when capacity tightens?
Eliminate your sub-optimized freight today.
