EASING congestion at the Alliance terminal in Haslet, Texas has meant more containers from LA-Long Beach ports are coming to build throughput on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, reports IHS media, 'We are taking a tough situation and making it less bad by getting the stacks organised, making chassis available, and trying to make it an orderly operation there,' said BNSF intermodal chief Tom Williams
EASING congestion at the Alliance terminal in Haslet, Texas has meant more containers from LA-Long Beach ports are coming to build throughput on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, reports IHS media, 'We are taking a tough situation and making it less bad by getting the stacks organised, making chassis available, and trying to make it an orderly operation there,' said BNSF intermodal chief Tom Williams.
The Alliance yards enjoyed a 25 per cent reduction in container storage when it stored 3,965 stacked containers Alliance was operating at 82 per cent of usable capacity, which severely slowed operations.
BNSF said 25 per cent at its Dallas-Fort Worth intermodal terminal has been worked down through better equipment turnaround, improved yard operations, and greater chassis availability.
But rail volumes out of the Southern California ports still need metering as the terminal works through thousands of long-dwelling containers.
As a result of the backlog decline, Mr Williams said BNSF is now able to run more trains from the LA-LB port complex and foresees more train capacity out of those ports this week.
He also said there were days shortly after Labour Day when BNSF had to 'significantly meter' trains between Southern California and Dallas-Fort Worth because available space inside its terminal was extremely limited, but he believes the worst has passed.
'We'll be diligent about what we load at the ports and balance that with what's able to go out on the street,' he said. 'We've made significant progress week over week, both in terms of what's stacked and the increase in the number of trains out of LA-LB that will move this week,' he said.
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