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LOGISTICAL ADVANTAGES OF BNSF FREIGHT YARD Name: Grade Course: Tutor’s Name: (13th April, 2011) Logistical advantages of BNSF freight yard There are various advantages that BNSF freight yard has on the logistic arena. Some of the advantages are as follows. Shipper growth and services development As the yard is located near the BNSF, premier rail routes between Chicago and southern California and between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest, it offers a good room for expansion. The company also is a leading rail industry leading in intermodal carrier with a load capacity of over 35 million. This makes it advantageous to the yard as it can be used in the logistic issues. The freight yard helps the customer to take advantage of the synergies that are associated with the widening of the projected that have been proposed of 1-55 and the expansion of the distribution center and the growth of the warehouse in the Southwest Chicago metropolitan area. Offers Chicago multimodal facility From the BNSF developments that are intermodal facilities, an automotive facilities and room for multi user carload and transload facility, the freight yard offers a switching yard, which helps the company to build the train faster. This is through easily combining intermodal and automotive trains to other markets in the western countries. The BNSF has started expansion of their right yard where the first phase which include 124 acres of intermodal facility and 151 acres automotive facility and 105 switching storage that will be of great help to BNSF logistics. The second phase that is under lease will be able to increase 245 acres to the BNSF yard in Chicago. They are also capable of developing additional 200 acres that will help the development of the company’s intermodal facility. Offers consolidated intermodal distribution for the Chicago market The BNSF freight yard offers intermodal facility that enables consolidation of Chicago international distribution at a single location. This disregards its West Coastal port origination. The intermodal facility of the company ensures that BNSF customers are provided with extreme efficient, full service international container that is full operational. Intermodal facility will increase BNSF Chicago intermodal lift capacity by 400,000 lift to nearly three million annually lifts with expansion rooms for another 800,000 annual lifts. These will establish a great capacity of the intermodal facility. Introduction of gateway hub The BNSF logistics park will create Chicago first gateway hub that is dedicated to manufacture auto trains to all western markets. This hub will enable automakers to employ market strategy fast and successfully. Improvements of rail and highway capacity Chicago infrastructure capacity is limited for ...