Western Railroad Discussion > Top 50 Global Carriers

Transport Topics issue Sept 21 2015 for the first time list the Top 50 Global Carriers based on freight  revenue 2014 listed below are the top ten

1 UPS          $51887 (in millions)
2 FedEx         43723
3 China Railway 40421   
4 Maersk          33793
5 Russian Railway  31924
6 UP                 23988
7 BNSF            22714
8 Med Shipping 22183
9 Deutsche Post 22161
10 Indian Railways 18105
Others of Interest
15 CSX  12669
18 NS    11624
19 CN    10682
30 CP      5996
32 J B Hunt  5467
34 YRC        5069
38 Conway   4264
40 Swift       4013
43 Schneider 3524
 
Interesting Facts

China Railway has 19686 locomotives used for passenger and freight
Russian Railways has 20227 locomotivesused for passenger and freight
UP     has 8463 locomotives 66218 railcars,54935 containers , 41133 chassis
BNSF  8000 locomotives ( did not list any other equip)
Indian Railways  10499 locomotives
CSX 4257 locomotives 67012 railcars 17284 containers
NS  4268 locomotives 77654 railcars 20999 containers
JB Hunt  12995 tractors 27731 trailers 73298 containers
Swift    18836 tractors 61652 trailers 9150 containers
Schneider  12300 tractors 32350 trailers 17500 containers

It was interesting to me to see the difference in locomotive counts between the various railroads and the difference in equipment mix of trailers and containers between JB Hunt, Swift and Schneider

Hope you find this interesting

Dale Smith  



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/29/15 13:24 by mearsksealand.

J B Hunt does intermodal right.  They make more profit on their intermodal operations than the over the road truck operations. 
Much of their trailer operations are  truck short haul distances delivering to stores and to their customer's  locations, not real over the road trucking.
Hunt has more containers than UP has in their EMP and UMXU pools.

gmojim​​