Sentences with phrase «rail shipment of»

State regulators are seeking more information from a Massachusetts company that plans to expand its Hudson River facilities routing rail shipments of crude oil from North Dakota and western Canada to coastal refineries.

The Toronto Globe and Mail has published an excellent investigative package on the growth of rail shipments of oil attending the surge in shale - oil production.

I'll be writing more on the dangerous boom in rail shipments of oil in coming months, but my friend Jon Bowermaster has made all the important points already in a compelling documentary.

Not exact matches

Since 2011, the rail industry has voluntarily adopted tougher safety standards for all new cars, but with literally only a handful of tank car - makers in North America and a huge boom in oil - by - rail shipments, demand far outstrips supply.

And with several of CP's business lines (notably oil shipments by rail) enjoying robust growth, the wind seems to be at his back.

Crude - by - rail shipments are expected to ramp up in the second half of this year and into the first half of next year to «very material volumes of oil,» Pourbaix said, adding price discounts will improve but will likely remain higher than usual because rail costs more than pipeline transport.

Raitt's three - year timeline to fully dispose of older DOT - 111A tankers (and immediate phase - out of 5,000 of the most vulnerable cars) is going to be a difficult one to meet given the existing capacity for suppliers to build new tankers, as well as the desire of oil and gas companies to continue the exponential increases in oil - by - rail shipments into the future.

That would account for shipping costs and the lower quality of WCS versus WTI, as crude - by - rail shipments increase and capacity returns to normal on the Keystone pipeline across the U.S., which has faced pressure limits since it leaked in November in South Dakota.

Speaking in New York in May, Mr. Harper emphasized that the rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline would lead to an increase in oil sands shipments by rail, which he called «more environmentally challenging» than pipelines.

CN Rail, for instance, was prepared in the fall of 2011 to increase shipments of bitumen, the heavy oil from Alberta's oilsands sector, from 10,000 barrels of bitumen per day to 200,000 barrels per day.

This first shipment to Asia comprises some 200,000 wet metric tonnes of high - grade iron concentrate, part of the tonnage transported by rail to the port over the last month from QIO's recently -...

The company's divisions manage a complex network of land, water and rail shipments, synchronizing each step of the chain to deliver orders right on time at any designated place throughout the United States, South America, Central America, China and the Caribbean.

Out of Stock ORDER NOW for immediate shipment when back in stock Toddler Rail Back in Stock Until July

Rio Tinto has achieved the significant milestone of loading the first shipment of iron ore from its expanded port, rail and mine operations in Australia.

He said the pipeline would not reduce the controversial shipment of Bakken oil by rail or barge, adding that statistics from the Federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration showed that pipelines had a higher spill rate per mile than any other form of oil transportation.

There have been increased shipments of crude by rail and barge.

Albany's river port has emerged as a major hub for rail and barge shipments of crude oil.

Hawkins Calls for Moratorium on Oil Shipment by Rail and No Tar Sands Oil in New York Until Moratorium, NY Residents Have a Right to Know Details of Bakken and other Oil Shipments (Syracuse, NY) At a vigil in Syracuse to observe the one year anniversary of the 47 residents killed in Lac Megantic, Canada by a derailment of a «bomb train,» Howie Hawkins said that New York State residents have a right to know about the details of similar shipments here in Shipments (Syracuse, NY) At a vigil in Syracuse to observe the one year anniversary of the 47 residents killed in Lac Megantic, Canada by a derailment of a «bomb train,» Howie Hawkins said that New York State residents have a right to know about the details of similar shipments here in shipments here in New York.

There are great mounds of imported coal being loaded onto rail cars for shipment to a local power station to be burned and release thousands of tons of climate - changing carbon into the atmosphere.

By looking at aspects such as load factor (how well the space in / on pallets, crates and trucks is utilized) and the proportion of intermodal transports (where road transport is combined with rail or sea transport), she identified which shipments are most effective to work with, and the best way of doing this.

Because of a hydraulic fracturing boom, crude oil shipments by rail spiked from 9,500 carloads in 2009 to nearly 400,000 carloads in 2013, AAR data show.

The small size of the completed module permits component shipment via conventional large object transport such as truck, rail, and barge.

PHMSA continues to advance a rulemaking addressing the integrity of DOT Specification 111 tanker cars and the safe shipment by rail of flammable materials such as crude oil.

The emergency meeting was held to evaluate and consider wide - ranging proposals to further enhance railroad safety including the safe shipment of crude oil by rail.

His awards include the 2009 General Counsel's Award for Excellence in chairing the U.S. delegation to the 2009 Diplomatic Conference on Air Law, the 2009 Secretary's Team Award for work on improving the safety, security and economic viability of U.S - China hazardous materials shipments and the 2016 Secretary's Silver Award for his work on the Cape Town Rail Protocol.

Specifically, a pattern of releases and fires involving petroleum crude oil shipments originating from the Bakken and being transported by rail constitute an imminent hazard under 49 U.S.C. 5121 (d).

FRA enforce rail safety regulations and statutes through routine inspections (sample of track, locomotives, rail cars, operating practices, signals and train control systems, and hazardous material shipments for compliance with Federal safety standards at high risk areas) and broader assessments; investigate and analyze accidents; manage state involvement in rail safety programs; and implement highway - rail grade crossing programs.

No one knows what commodity prices and shipments will look like over the next year, but CN will likely be just fine over the long run given the cost - effectiveness of rail and its duopoly status in Canada.

Crude oil is the fastest growing category of hazardous shipments on North American rails because of limited pipeline capacity for booming Bakken production.

The rising pressure for rail shipments was explored in depth earlier this year in «Busting Bottlenecks in the Bakken,» an article in Fed Gazette, a publication of the Minnesota Federal Reserve (yes, weird, but it's a thorough, interesting piece) and in this Christian Science Monitor story: «Pipelines can't keep up with North American oil boom.»

The overall effects of shipping are mitigated by the fact that trans - country shipments are usually 40,000 lbs by rail or car.

On May 11, 2011, the Port of Morrow Commission approved a one - year lease option with Coyote Island Terminal LLC of Salt Lake City, Utah, to build a rail off - loading coal terminal on up to 24.26 acres to transfer the coal onto barges for shipment to the Millennium Bulk Logistics Longview Terminal in Washington, and on to customers in Asia.

And the lower - than - expected cost of sulfur dioxide regulation mostly resulted from technological changes that occurred well before the establishment of pollution trading: rail deregulation allowed for the economic shipment of low - sulfur coal, and the development of cheaper scrubbers.

Proposals for expansion of exports focus on sending coal from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana over rail lines to West Coast ports for shipment to Asian buyers.

In a good review of the context of how rail transportation is a part of the Keystone XL debate, Ian Austen at The New York Times notes that there is a lack of safety regulations and inspections on oil shipments:

Until that process is complete, we are banning the shipment of all forest products from British Columbia by rail or road.

There are an estimated 8.5 million trucks on the roads in the United States and Chicago is at the heart of the transportation industry, serving as a hub to organize shipments via both rail and the road.

Railcar billing of ties for to major railway companies and communicates with various plants on these rail shipments.

Developed equipment Interchange / Work Orders using SCSPA Orion System, and provided strategic coordination of traffic with local rail ramps for incoming freight shipments.

There is no doubt that rail shipment and dumping at the Adams mine could also cause harm to the lifestyle of people who live in areas that are affected by the process.

Worth, Atlanta, Houston and the Inland Empire, according to David Egan, Americas head of industrial research for CBRE, but Chicago dwarfs them all at more than 1.2 billion sq. ft.. The Chicago area is the largest point of origin for rail - to - truck intermodal shipments in the U.S., and almost half of all shipments flow through the market.