As market conditions continue to shift, shippers must take a proactive approach to intermodal transportation. A well-planned intermodal strategy can help balance cost-effectiveness, capacity diversification, and sustainability, reducing risk and increasing long-term resilience.

Join our experts as we explore:

How intermodal can improve cost efficiency while supporting carbon reduction goals

Why capacity diversification is critical when market conditions change

How technology and outsourcing can simplify carrier management, ensure consistency, and help prevent capacity disruptions

Whether you manage logistics in-house or work with a provider, having intermodal in your routing strategy is more important than ever. Don’t miss the opportunity to strengthen your supply chain in 2025 and beyond.

Webinar Objectives:

Shippers should take a deliberate approach to intermodal strategy, focusing on three key factors: carbon footprint, cost-effectiveness, and capacity diversification.

Whether you manage logistics in-house or work with a Managed Transportation Provider, market conditions will continue to cycle. When cost is no longer the priority and capacity becomes the main challenge, excluding rail from your routing guide could put your business at risk.

Shippers are often understaffed in logistics, making it essential to leverage technology and business process outsourcing to simplify carrier management, ensure consistency, drive continuous improvement, and reduce the risk of a capacity crisis.

Join Larry Gross — “The Intermodalist” — as he explores the latest industry statistics and how they impact you and your business. Utilizing multiple sources, including IANA’s Intermodal Volume Analyzer and Equipment Type, Size and Ownership (ETSO) database, as well as his own publication, Intermodal In-Depth, Larry will provide a detailed examination of the outcomes so far in 2025, as well as offer a look at major emerging themes. This session is available only to IANA members.

Ted Prince, CEO & Founder, Tri-Cities Intermodal, will explain how intermodal has evolved throughout time by incorporating history, economics, and policy. This “what is intermodal?” discussion will cover such topics as: the growth of international containerization; how domestic intermodal has continued to change; and the changing infrastructure. These topics will be considered within the broader contexts of intermodal’s relative competitiveness to other modes. Ted is an internationally recognized teacher on intermodal transportation. This session is open to both IANA members and non-members.

Join Larry Gross — “The Intermodalist” — as he explores the latest industry statistics and how they impact you and your business. Utilizing numerous sources, including IANA’s Intermodal Volume Analyzer and Equipment Type, Size and Ownership (ETSO) database, as well as his own publication, Intermodal In-Depth, Larry will provide a detailed examination of the outcomes from 2024 as well as major emerging themes for 2025. This is the only Intermodal Analyzed session of the year that is open to non-member companies.

Based upon his findings from the IANA report, Intermodal at the Crossroads: Leader of the ‘'Growth Pivot,” Senior Transportation Analyst Tony Hatch joins us to have a look back at the past ten years of intermodal. He will offer explanations as to what occurred differently than expected (and why) in the North American intermodal network since the last report published in 2014. He also analyzes where the industry is headed in the next decade, including what can be done to (re)turn the tide to intermodal market growth. Click on "Download PDF" to download and print the digital report.

Join leading analyst Larry Gross — “The Intermodalist” — as he digs into the latest industry statistics and how they impact you and your business. Calling on IANA’s Intermodal Volume Analyzer as well as his own publication Intermodal In-Depth, Larry will provide a detailed examination of the data as well as major emerging themes. This session is available only to IANA members.