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For the first time ever, GPA handled more than half a million container lifts to rail, growing that number by more than 72,000, or 16.6%. The 506,707 intermodal boxes constituted more than 20% of total containers, another record.
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“Over the past 15 years, we’ve watched the shortage rise and fall with economic trends, but it ballooned last year to the highest level we’ve seen to date,” said ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello. “The combination of a surging freight economy and carriers’ need for qualified drivers could severely disrupt the supply chain.
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