AMERICA's BNSF Railway and Union Pacific are not booking the space they did when import volumes were much stronger last year, yet they are meeting demands made by the ocean carriers, reports New York's Journal of Commerce.
'We are directing the capacity where the ocean carriers are directing us,' said BNSF.
'Union Pacific has not experienced a meaningful reduction in container flow to major population centres on our network,' said Union Pacific 'We are also still transporting empty containers back from the inland points to the west coast.'
In fact, some West Coast terminal operators are seeing a surplus of empties building up at their facilities. Yusen Terminals has so many empty containers that it is storing some of them at near-dock temporary storage yards until they can be loaded onto vessels headed back to Asia, said Alan McCorkle, president of Yusen Terminals in Los Angeles.
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'We are directing the capacity where the ocean carriers are directing us,' said BNSF.
'Union Pacific has not experienced a meaningful reduction in container flow to major population centres on our network,' said Union Pacific 'We are also still transporting empty containers back from the inland points to the west coast.'
In fact, some West Coast terminal operators are seeing a surplus of empties building up at their facilities. Yusen Terminals has so many empty containers that it is storing some of them at near-dock temporary storage yards until they can be loaded onto vessels headed back to Asia, said Alan McCorkle, president of Yusen Terminals in Los Angeles.
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