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Intermodal Shipping

Move Your Cargo via Land and Sea With Our Intermodal Transporation Services.
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Intermodal solutions for your business far beyond

The Southwest Star intermodal team coordinates with you to monitor every step from pick-up through intermodal transportation, for same-day shipments as well as committed container capacity projects. Our proprietary technology gives you full visibility into each shipment.

We strive to bring much more to the relationship than simply a means of reaching your customers across the world. Solutions that meet the needs of today and enable the opportunities of tomorrow.

Intermodal trains can move one ton of freight 500 miles on a single gallon of gas—using less fuel and emitting less CO2 than trucks. Talk with Southwest Star, about over-the-road shipping alternatives that help protect the environment and simplify transportation.

 

 

Benefits

Cost Savings

If your company is shipped freight a long distance, you should consider intermodal. The longer the distance to travel is, the greater the opportunity is to save using intermodal transport.

Flexibility of loading and unloading goods

Now, about 30% of their truckload business has been converted

Track shipments in real-time, providing end-to-end visibility and better planning

Increase Shipment Safety

Intermodal transport can use rail as one of the modes of transport, which can be significantly safer than over-the-road trucking service. Rail transport can also be more secure and have less theft than truckload shipping has.

Rail service can be significantly safer than over-the-road trucking service.

Railroads have an outstanding track record in safely delivering hazardous materials – 99.99%

Railroads and trucks carry an almost equal HAZMAT ton-miles, but trucks have 16 times more HAZMAT releases than railroads.

Reduced Carbon Footprint

Intermodal transportation is environmentally friendly compared to single modes of transportation such as trucks. As focus on green initiatives continue to rise, it’s important to move goods by choosing the way that has the least negative impact on the environment. 

Shipping intermediary by rail offers significant environmental benefits compared to the truck.

Shipping intermodally helps a company meet their corporate sustainability goals by “greening” their supply chain.

Moving one ton of freight one mile through rail can reduce CO2 emissions by 83%.

Big Capacity

Long-haul domestic intermodal service can offer you significant savings compared to over-the-road trucking service. In many lanes, direct savings are in excess of 30%.

Compared to the truckload where a driver has 2,000 to 3,000 miles before a new load, this allows for more turnaround time.

Total savings can be even greater, given high fuel surcharge percentages that are applied to base line-haul freight rates.

A single train can move the load of 280 trucks.

Multimodal & Cross-border Transport

Multimodal shipping is the movement of goods using more than one different mode of transportation under an individual contract. Many shippers all across the globe depend on multimodal transport to move their goods daily. 

Multimodal shipping involves communication between multiple parties in order to keep things running smoothly.

Across the board, the multimodal mode generally offers cheaper shipping rates and reduced cargo insurance pricing.

Cross-continental shipments move much quicker through multiple modes. Where one shift ends, another has just started.

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At Southwest Star, we know experience matters. That’s why customers trust us — we have more vast experience in the logistics and transportation industry. For your services, this translates to competence around the globe.

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Experience. Capacity. Service Using Southwest Star services is never been that easy. We provide shpping solutions to the companies of all sizes, as well as the fast and reliable transportation across all major modes of freight. 
We strive to bring much more to the relationship than simply a means of reaching your customers across the world solutions that meet the needs of today and enable the opportunities of tomorrow.

 

Carrer Opportunities  The future of the logistics is tech, and we are forefront of a growing industry undergoing a technological revolution. We offer enriching and rewarding career opportunities for the passionate, the motivated, and the driven. Southwest Star needs people like you to help us innovate new logistics solutions and technology that will change the industry. And, you’ll have a lot of fun along the way. Explore openings at our locations across North America.

Our Culture  We’ve created a culture that is defining the future of freight. We are a close-knit community of logistics and technology experts with a passion for solving supply chain challenges. We live and breathe our values and bring out the best in each other through positivity, collaboration, and a flair for problem-solving.

  • Transportation of any type of cargoOur experts organize logistics services for the transportation of goods of any complexity and any size.
  • Best solution for your businessSouthwest Star is centrally located to help assist businesses across the country in warehousing, trucking, and logistics.
  • 100% AccuracyOur partners cooperate with us on the basis of long-term contracts, which guarantees stability and quality of cooperation regardless of the market situation.

We can be your great business partner and help you growth strongly.

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