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Rail News Home Norfolk Southern Railway 12/17/2021 Rail News: Norfolk Southern Railway
Norfolk Southern Railway has launched NSites, a GIS-based search engine to help businesses find rail-served industrial sites and transload facilities.The online portal provides comprehensive information about industrial sites near NS's transportation infrastructure, encouraging investment and job creation, NS officials said in a press release.The Class I’s network connects customers to every major container port in the eastern United States and reaches a majority of the country’s population and manufacturing base, they added.The search tool includes more than 800 available industrial locations across the railroad’s 22-state territory, all verified as rail accessible by NS or one of its short-line partners. Additionally, users can find nearly 250 rail-to-truck transload facilities in key markets across the eastern United States.Similar to online residential real-estate sites that let users search for homes based on their criteria, NSites enables a customized search of properties. By using targeted filters, companies can sift through results based on acreage, location, existing warehousing, and proximity to highways, intermodal terminals and port facilities."We developed NSites with the user in mind, to empower current and future customers during site selection decisions," said Ed Elkins, executive vice president and chief marketing officer. "Before NSites, there was no single destination to help large manufacturers, site-selection professionals and developers identify and compare rail-served industrial sites that offer the exact site characteristics they need."

Rail News Home Canadian National Railway - CN 12/15/2021 Rail News: Canadian National Railway - CN
CN announced a seven-year strategic partnership with Google Cloud aimed at modernizing the Class I’s supply chain through digital scheduled railroading and technology infrastructure.The companies will collaborate in an effort to "revolutionize" the North American rail system, CN officials said in a press release.The partnership will support CN's sustainability goals because Google’s cloud platform is the cleanest in the industry, they said.The partnership will focus on three initiatives that aim to:
• enable better connectivity and collaboration with customers and supply chain partners. CN will develop an intuitive digital platform, powered by Google Cloud’s artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) tools, to give customers and supply chain partners more visibility into the logistics journey of planning, shipping, tracking and payment.


• deliver new experiences for CN’s customers through co-innovation initiatives. The partnership will combine the companies' expertise in data analytics, AI, and ML to deliver solutions and next-generation experiences for CN’s employees, customers, and partners, such as simplified ordering and automated tracking to further enhance predictive maintenance capabilities.


• modernize CN’s infrastructure in the cloud. CN will gradually and securely move the large majority of its digital infrastructure, including SAP applications, from on-premises to Google Cloud’s always-on global network. Moving to the cloud will enable CN to scale with customer and industry demands, simplify the company’s IT estate, create efficiencies and reduce product delivery lead times.