A month or so ago there was concern about one of the Intermodal Container companies going bankrupt. There was concern about who would take up the business and if the bankruptcy would create a longterm shipping “crisis”. I decided to list the names of Intermodal Companies that I see on the sides of the containers in trains (when out trainwatching and while watching the Rochelle, IL and Roanoke, VA RailCams…) I now have 68 names in the list! Anybody know of more?
ACL
APL
Beacon
Bulk Haul (Tubular tank in a 20’ Intermodal frame.)
CAI
Capital
CARU
China Shipping
Cho Yang
CMA CGM
CNS
COCL
COLO
Cosco
CR England
CRCNCO
Cronos
CSAV
CSX
Dong F… (I can never see the whole name… it is always printed vertically in the last side panel and the container is always on the bottom of a well-car and the side panel of the car obscures the last part of the name.)
EES
EMP
Evergreen
Global
Gold
Hamburg Sud
Hanjin (I have seen only one or two of these since the bankruptcy.)
Hapag-Lloyd
Hatsu Marine
Hub Group
Hyundai
Interstate
Italia
J.B. Hunt
K Line
Lloyd Triestino
Maersk
Magellan
Matson
MCL
MDI
MOL
New Port
NYK LOGISTICS AND MEGACARRIERS
OCG
Pacer Stacktrain
Prime Intermodal
Road Rail
SAFMARINE
SeaCastle
Seaco
SeaLand
Senator
SINOCHEM (Tubular tank in a 20’ Intermodal frame.)
Swift
TEX
Tiger Cool Express
Triton
UASC
UES
UMAX
Werner
Xlines
XPO Logistics
Xtra
Yang Ming
YRC
ZM
Dong F… (I can never see the whole name… it is always printed vertically in the last side panel and the container is always on the bottom of a well-car and the side panel of the car obscures the last part of the name.)
I think that the one you are looking for is Dong Fang.
“Dong F… (I can never see the whole name… it is always printed vertically in the last side panel and the container is always on the bottom of a well-car and the side panel of the car obscures the last part of the name.)”
I think i know what Dong F… is but this is a family freindly forum.
I see a lot of Schneider Semi-trailers on rail cars, but not “Intermodal Containers” with the Schneider name on them. I had that name and several others (UPS, FedEx, E, etc.) in my list until I realized they were Semi-Trailers and not Intermodal Containers. At least, I have not seen any (not that there are not any).
When I first saw this thread, I thought the OP was asking about companies that make Intermodal Shipping Container, as demonstrated in this video (how-it’s-made style video of a Chinese company fabricating a container for BigSteelBox)
Was watching a BNSF ‘z’ train pass by here yesterday afternoon; saw about a dozen of schneider’s container’ stacked on it.Usually, the OTR trailers are what I had noticed more than the ‘stacks’. Many times, it is the [schneider] containers riding on chassis (TOFC) more than the ‘stacks’. [Just a observation].
The Han Jin containers were a pretty regular sight in this area, but since their recent bankruptcy they are not. Here is a recent linked article on its impact at West Coast Ports ( and possible consequences for railroads serving them)
For domestic containers, JB Hunt has the most, more than 80,000, which is more than #2 and #3 combined. The intermodal business represents more than 60% of the total revenues and profits of the company. Truckload is only about 6%, behind contract logistics and their brokerage operations.
The problem with the original list is that it lists Shipping companies(ie: Evergreen, Hanjin, NCL, etc.) alongside Intermodal Marketing Companies(ie: HUB, Alliance, Pacer[now Xpo Logistics], etc. and OTR companies with Intermodal divisions(ie: JBH, Schneider, Swift, etc.). Technically 3 different kinds of organizations that you really can’t lump together.
That may be true, but they all are names that appear on the sides of containers and there is no distinction of what that name implies as to what kind of organization owns them.
My reason for making the list was because on another forum there was a knee-jerk reaction that the bankruptcy of one company would cause great international ecconomic problems. The question was whether there were enough other companies to “take up the slack” of the loss of this one company. I didn’t really realize just how many names I was seeing on the sides of the containers until I started making the list.
