BNSF Railway Company and Kansas City Southern (KCS) announced a new joint service to offer intermodal transport connecting the Chicago and Dallas/Fort Worth markets and other major markets on the BNSF network with important consumer and industrial regions on the Kansas City Southern de México network. The new service offerings, which start on 1 December, will provide intermodal transportation five days a week.
Northbound, the service will operate from Toluca, San Luis Potosí or Monterrey, Mexico, to Dallas/Fort Worth or Chicago. Southbound, the service will originate from Chicago or Dallas/Fort Worth to Laredo, Texas or to Monterrey, San Luis Potosí or Toluca, Mexico.
Customers using this service can also connect to the West Coast to and from Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Stockton, Calif., and Seattle and Portland, Ore., in the Pacific Northwest. This new service offers customers moving consumer goods, including appliances, foods and beverages and other cross-border shipments, a secure and direct connection to some of the most important consumer and manufacturing regions in Mexico.
The service provides competitive “truck-like” intermodal transit times, when compared with over-the-road options. It features a multi-layered safety and security process that includes monitoring shipments throughout the route using strategic rail inspection portals. Customers will have access to tools 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to track shipments in both countries.
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