Rails gathers little steam in onion shipping
Jim Offner -- The Packer -- May 15, 2008With trucks in short supply and fuel prices rising, one might suspect the use of rail for shipping onions to market would be heading upward.
But, it’s not gaining any particular momentum, marketing agents say.
“Out of specific areas, like Idaho, eastern Oregon and Washington, they’ve moved quite a bit by rail,” said Wayne Mininger, executive vice president of the Greeley, Colo.-based National Onion Association. “But rail isn’t an option in quite a few growing regions. A lot of them really don’t have any kind of service that you can work out through your rail terminals.”
Shippers are simply going to have to depend on trucks, as usual, Mininger said.
“But, it has been a help to have rail available in the Northwest,” he said.
Rails gathers little steam in onion shipping
Jim Offner -- The Packer -- May 15, 2008With trucks in short supply and fuel prices rising, one might suspect the use of rail for shipping onions to market would be heading upward.
But, it’s not gaining any particular momentum, marketing agents say.
“Out of specific areas, like Idaho, eastern Oregon and Washington, they’ve moved quite a bit by rail,” said Wayne Mininger, executive vice president of the Greeley, Colo.-based National Onion Association. “But rail isn’t an option in quite a few growing regions. A lot of them really don’t have any kind of service that you can work out through your rail terminals.”
Shippers are simply going to have to depend on trucks, as usual, Mininger said.
“But, it has been a help to have rail available in the Northwest,” he said.
Rails gathers little steam in onion shipping
Jim Offner -- The Packer -- May 15, 2008
With trucks in short supply and fuel prices rising, one might suspect the use of rail for shipping onions to market would be heading upward.
But, it’s not gaining any particular momentum, marketing agents say.
“Out of specific areas, like Idaho, eastern Oregon and Washington, they’ve moved quite a bit by rail,” said Wayne Mininger, executive vice president of the Greeley, Colo.-based National Onion Association. “But rail isn’t an option in quite a few growing regions. A lot of them really don’t have any kind of service that you can work out through your rail terminals.”
Shippers are simply going to have to depend on trucks, as usual, Mininger said.
“But, it has been a help to have rail available in the Northwest,” he said.
But, it’s not gaining any particular momentum, marketing agents say.
“Out of specific areas, like Idaho, eastern Oregon and Washington, they’ve moved quite a bit by rail,” said Wayne Mininger, executive vice president of the Greeley, Colo.-based National Onion Association. “But rail isn’t an option in quite a few growing regions. A lot of them really don’t have any kind of service that you can work out through your rail terminals.”
Shippers are simply going to have to depend on trucks, as usual, Mininger said.
“But, it has been a help to have rail available in the Northwest,” he said.
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