How to Use intermodal in a Sentence

intermodal

adjective
  • Six intermodal rail cars left the tracks.
    — Cbs News Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Maybe they’ve been loaded onto a train or truck that’s now idled inside an intermodal yard.
    — Eric Smith, Outside Online, 29 Mar. 2021
  • The dispute highlights the high stakes in tie-ups over intermodal transport.
    — Jennifer Smith, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2017
  • With his guidance, the company has emerged as a leader in intermodal drayage.
    — Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2025
  • No intermodal rail cargo will be worked on or off the rail at the Port of Wilmington.
    — Zachery Eanes, Axios, 1 Oct. 2024
  • But grain volumes jumped, the slide in coal volume and revenue was more modest and intermodal business was flat.
    — Paul Page, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2017
  • But railroad officials say there are signs intermodal freight is beginning to bounce back.
    — Paul Berger, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The glut has also tamped down rates in the intermodal business of moving container cargo over long distances by rail and truck.
    — Jennifer Smith, WSJ, 15 July 2017
  • Its intermodal business links customers to railroads through trucks and terminals.
    — Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The site is also near the intermodal rail yard and Interstate 485.
    — Ely Portillo, charlotteobserver, 8 Dec. 2017
  • That makes nine years of double-digit growth for the port, which also reports a long unbroken growth streak for intermodal rail shipping.
    — al, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The company said demand for its intermodal service rose throughout the quarter.
    — Pia Singh, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Finally, intermodal contract rates follow with a six-to-12-month lag.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The companies have partnered on multiple coast-to-coast intermodal rail services.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The intermodal terminals connecting ports and railroads may also get clogged with the sudden spike in traffic.
    — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The intermodal segment decreased 2 percent in the quarter.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Instead, both railroads entered in a partnership that would introduce two coast-to-coast intermodal rail services.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Railroad companies should benefit from this shortage as the customers can use intermodal business to cover the longer hauls.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • The manufacturing and logistics park will have rail and truck intermodal access.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 26 July 2023
  • The tracks being hit connect to an intermodal Union Pacific rail yard where containers are moved between trucks and trains.
    — Paul Ziobro, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Grist has said this contract signifies that the district would administer the grant for the intermodal authority.
    — Thomas Saccente, Arkansas Online, 3 Nov. 2020
  • But only one city is home to the largest intermodal transit station on the West Coast, something that the new Gateway project highlights.
    — J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Jan. 2023
  • And so far in the fourth quarter, intermodal rail-truck cargo has remained strong, with volumes surpassing 2017 levels.
    — Erica E. Phillips, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2018
  • In a brief released earlier in the month, Long predicted pressures on intermodal volumes and pricing on the second quarter.
    — John Magsam, Arkansas Online, 19 July 2023
  • The company struggled to shrug off the impacts of a difficult coal market despite its intermodal growth, executives noted.
    — Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The 900 acres on which CN is planning its intermodal and warehouse complex now consists of gently rolling woodlands and corn and soybean fields.
    — John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2024
  • Across 18th Avenue from the cafe, the rest of the intermodal facility remains under construction.
    — Lucy Berry, AL.com, 15 July 2017
  • To accommodate that growth, the Georgia Ports Authority built a new intermodal rail yard to put boxes on trains and keep them off highways.
    — Greg Bluestein, ajc, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The intermodal process involves a giant container being moved from train to truck and then possibly to a nearby Logistics Park warehouse, or by truck back to train.
    — Lynn Horsley, kansascity, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Within this context, according to him, intermodal transportation is reasserting its relevance in long-haul freight corridors.
    — Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 22 June 2026

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