Intermodal to Saint John

Liverpool express should dock tomorrow
It is in bound

Eastbound container counts should be high with the new service starting soon

Good to see already ramping up the new service... MILAN EXPRESS ETA is 5/18, so that with the Med traffic is going to be busy busy.

I noticed some 132 videos out in Toronto they seem to be tupet/filet the Hapags with domestics for Montreal. With trade balances they way they are, a lot of empty boxes evacuate back to Europe so good chance many but not all of these are empty boxes headed back.

A 'TEU' just stands for twenty foot equivalent but railroads count a container as a 'intermodal unit' individually and a load regardless of if is loaded or not.. since the container in a well car is a load.

Hapag has a pretty good spec book here for boxes, I've used it a lot in the past. It gives you the ISO code too which a lot of folks use, such as 22G1 for a standard dry 20' box

https://www.hapag-lloyd.com/content/dam ... mt_web.pdf

If I understand these reports correctly, there is presently more of a balance in the eastbound and westbound movement of boxes across Maine

The eastbound this afternoon had over 90 loaded wells and 9 general freight cars.