Industry Insight

Union Pacific Railroad will strengthen Missouri's transportation infrastructure by investing $21 million to construct a more-than-nine-mile second main line track in the Bell City area, in southeast Missouri.   Read More...

From the city’s industrial underbelly to the bluffs of Jefferson County, there are big plans afoot these days along the Mississippi River.   Read More...

Despite some bumps throughout the year, North America remained a bright spot in an otherwise dismal global economy.   Read More...

After decades of planning and construction, U.S. Highway 71 from Kansas City to Pineville, Mo., officially became Interstate 49 at noon Wednesday.   Read More...

Interstate 49 between Kansas City and Pineville will become official today.   Read More...

The Missouri Department of Transportation has won top honors in the Mid America Regional "America's Transportation Awards" competition for two projects that were completed ahead of schedule and under budget.   Read More...

Missouri is wrapping up the final piece of a two-year, $39 million reconstruction of the Interstates 70 and 435 interchange — a new ramp from U.S. Highway 40 onto northbound I-435, the Independence Examiner reports. The work will create a detour for at least two weeks with the closing of the ramp from westbound I-70 to northbound I-435, the report says. The deadline to open the new U.S. 40 ramp is July 1, but good weather could accelerate that, the newspaper says.   Read More...

Delta Air Lines and Southwest Airlines plan new nonstop flights from Kansas City International Airport. On Monday, Delta Air Lines Inc. (NYSE: DAL) announced what will be Kansas City’s only nonstop flight to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. The flight starts in June. Justin Meyer, manager of air service development for KCI (Code: MCI), said it’s been almost two years since Kansas City had a nonstop flight to JFK.   Read More...

Union Pacific unveiled today its new AutoFlex rail car, built and designed at the company’s De Soto plant.   Read More...

Lambert-St. Louis International Airport expects to welcome the inaugural landing of China Cargo Airlines on Friday afternoon. The 4 p.m. landing of the Boeing 777F will mark the beginning of weekly cargo service between St. Louis and Shanghai. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon and other state and local leaders will welcome China Cargo, and members of the Civil Aviation Administration of China plan to make remarks to celebrate the occasion.   Read More...

The Missouri Department of Transportation has opened the 500th bridge completed under a program to fix or replace 802 of the state's worst bridges.   Read More...

California, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and Missouri to receive funds to buy locomotives, with strict 'Buy America' requirements.

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More than $2.78 million in improvements are either in progress or scheduled to be completed this year at the SEMO Port with funding from state and federal grants.   Read More...

Missouri is among the top five U.S. states for tracking the safety, economic and environmental returns on its investments in transportation, a new study finds.   Read More...

Olympic Steel Inc. is opening a 43,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution center in Kansas City.   Read More...

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn announced a $685 million agreement Tuesday to begin construction on the next phase of high-speed rail between Chicago and St. Louis, the St. Louis Business Journal reports. Construction will begin April 5 of a new rail track using concrete ties between Dwight and Lincoln, as well as between Alton and the Mississippi River, along with the installation of a modernized signal system between Dwight and Alton.   Read More...

INRIX has the nation’s largest data warehouse of sampled vehicle speeds, including the most extensive data related specifically to freight activity. In this Annual Scorecard, the subset of GPS vehicle probe data from 2010 attributed to vehicles focused on long haul freight movement has been separated from the full archive to present a timely picture on national freight movement via highways. While the distribution of samples may not precisely match the movement of all long haul vehicles nationwide, with INRIX’s billions of data points and sources nationwide, this is the most extensive, consistent, and current analysis available on national freight activity.   Read More...

Frontier Airlines will offer nonstop flights between Kansas City and two new cities starting in June, the carrier announced Wednesday. Frontier, which has a hub at Kansas City International Airport (Code: MCI), will have 16 nonstop destinations from the airport with the additions of Minneapolis/St. Paul and San Antonio, which has no direct service from KCI.    Read More...

General Electric Co. and Siemens AG are preparing to release their own lines of electric-car charging stations, injecting big-name competition into a nascent business now dominated by little known start-ups.   Read More...

Laird Technologies acquires Cattron for $90M   Read More...