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Intermodal News Report Intermodal Association of Chicago February 4, 2013

Intermodal News Report Intermodal Association of Chicago February 4, 2013. Jason Hilsenbeck LoadMatch & Drayage.com President – Founder. LoadMatch.com. Intermodal Equipment Matching Drayage truckers post having empty containers

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Intermodal News Report Intermodal Association of Chicago February 4, 2013

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  1. Intermodal News ReportIntermodal Association of ChicagoFebruary 4, 2013 Jason Hilsenbeck LoadMatch & Drayage.com President – Founder

  2. LoadMatch.com • Intermodal Equipment Matching • Drayage truckers post having empty containers • Shippers/Freight Forwarders/Ocean Lines/IMCs post loads needing containers • Email or XML message is sent to each party when a posting matches a need with a have • Free to post …AND no transaction fees

  3. Drayage.com • Phonebook of Draymen • Currently 1900+ unique draymen profiles listed (was 1800 draymen last year at this time) • Search draymen in USA & Canada for chassis, haz-mat, transloading-warehousing, customs bonded, parking, CY operations, SCAC, TWIC, dry / refrigerated / household / tank drayage • Blast an email out to a group of draymen that matches your requirements

  4. LoadMatch & Drayage.com • Online since 1999, our goal is to provide visibility online of equipment, power only, and loads to the Intermodal - Import/Export community • Full Membership is just flat $50 per month • Independently owned; not affiliated with any customer or vendor

  5. data as of Feb 4, 2013 - researched by Jason Hilsenbeck, owner of

  6. COFC Logistics • COFC Logistics became active in June 2012 with 53’ container fleet with ramp-to-ramp pricing. • Last real free running pool like this on BNSF railroad was NACS program, which ended in 2008 • Currently at 850 x 53’ containers

  7. 53’ Container Fleet Notes • currently 201,410 x 53’ managed by Railroad + Motor Carrier + 3PL in United States • in Canada approx 12,400 x 53’ dry & heated containers managed by Canadian National (7300 CNRU) & Canadian Pacific (5100 CPPU) • approx 3000 x 53’ containers made for ocean vessels (Trailer Bridge, Crowley, Sea Star, APL, Alaskan Marine, Totem)

  8. IMC / FF / Broker News • 10/2012 – Eleets Transportation / Jacksonville, FL after six years suddenly stops doing business, files for bankruptcy, owes $8 million. • 10/2012 – SynchroNet started “Door Logistics”, providing wholesale intermodal service for ocean containers. (competing with Interdom, Matson, ESI, etc) • 12/2012 –Echo Global Logistics, OTR Broker, buys Sharp Freight Systems, an IMC located in Los Angeles, and office in Houston. Frank Sannebeck, founded Sharp Freight in 1965 (Echo bought Transport Systems / Rochester, NY in 2011)

  9. Drayage Trucking News • 7/2012 – Morgan Southern, started by David Morgan in 1982, is acquired by Roadrunner, all 18 terminals renamed “RoadRunner Intermodal Services, LLC” • 11/2012 – RoadRunner buys Central Cal Transportation / Fresno, CA that has 150+ drivers • 12/2012 – Nationwide Transport Services of Ohio, suddenly closed leaving dozen agents without money

  10. Drayage Trucking News • 1/2013 –RoadLink is now “RoadOne”, Ken Kellaway and David McLaughlin have taken over the company (RoadLink was created 2000 from Eastern America, GPS, Atlas Trucking, Hawk Pacific, WhitacreTrucking, KellawayIntermodal) • 1/2013 – H&M International Transportation rebranding to “H&M Terminals Transport” • 2/2013 – Mason Dixon rebranding to “Universal Intermodal”

  11. Drayage Trucking News • Averitt Express, an LTL carrier, started offering container dray trucking service “PortSide” (at 11 of their terminals) • Trend continues, OTR trucking companies offering drayage: Old Dominion, Schneider National Intermodal Services, Knight Port Services, Transport America

  12. Canadian National & Canadian Pacific News • 9/2012 – CP closes terminal in Milwaukee and in Schiller Park, IL (now depot for Hapag Lloyd and OOCL) • 2/2012 – CN opens intermodal terminal in Chippewa Falls, WI (100 miles east of Minneapolis) • 1/2013 – CN announces new intermodal terminals opening in downtown Indianapolis AND in downtown Joliet, IL (both opening June 2013 )

  13. CN Joliet terminal • Located downtown Joliet near U.S. 6 and Draper Avenue (near the old Silver Cross Hospital) • 30-acre facility, much smaller than other intermodal sites such as UP-Joliet and BNSF-Elwood • Purpose is to bring in grain and transload into containers going for export, expecting 175 trucks per day • Opening June 2013

  14. Miscellaneous • "An 18-wheeler 2007-2010 model year clean-diesel truck would have to drive 143 miles on the freeway to put out the same mass of particulates as a single charbroiled hamburger patty" study by University of California-Riverside (October 26, 2012 DC Velocity) • 80,000 lbs. United States gross limit (started 1981) • 97,000 lbs. Europe limit (44 tons) • 103,000 lbs. Canada average limit (46.5 tons) (western province of Alberta, Canada: 140,000 lbs./63,500 kilograms) • 107,000 lbs. Mexico limit (48.5 tons)

  15. Conclusion • Total intermodal container + trailer volume in U.S. for 2012 up near all-time record high set in 2006: • 12,267,336 total intermodal U.S. for 2012 (per AAR count) • 12,282,221 total intermodal U.S. for 2006 (per AAR count) • Look for 2013 total volume to beat 2006 record • International ocean container volume had slow growth in 2012, expect same for 2013 • 53’ domestic container volumes increased as predicted in 2012, expect continued truckload-to-intermodal conversion in 2013

  16. Thank you Jason Hilsenbeck President LoadMatch & Drayage.com Naperville, IL www.loadmatch.com = Equipment Matching www.drayage.com = Phonebook of Draymen 630-428-9230 x114

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