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J.B. Hunt Transport Services has announced that it will increase the intermodal container fleet to 150,000 units over a four-year period, representing a 40% increase over capacity at the end of 2021.  The project will be carried out in cooperation with BNSF Railway and will include improvements to increase the rate of re-cycling containers and eliminate bottlenecks.  The intention is to increase the number of containers in operation currently limited by restraints in supply chains.

John Roberts, President and CEO of J.B. Hunt Transport Services stated, “Together our company and BNSF will enhance their work to bring back the consistency and reliability customers expect with intermodal services and further embrace intermodal conversion and trans-loading services.”

Both companies will apply a freight-matching platform that will hopefully transfer eight to nine million loads from highways to rail.