The plan being studied at the city's Economic Development Corporation would bring freight by rail to barges off the Brooklyn waterfront in Sunset Park, and then float the freight across New York Harbor to Lower Manhattan.
Those would be freight shippers, which now have more exclusive use of the older rail lines, with fewer delays.
The lower level would carry freight trains directly to New Jersey through a new tunnel under the Hudson.
Trains would move freight cars into the proposed yard, where they would be unloaded and the cargo transferred to trucks for delivery on Long Island.
The Union Pacific Railroad said yesterday that because of high diesel prices, it would raise freight hauling rates by about 3percentt, starting early next month.
Dow, which makes products ranging from pesticides to plastic wraps, also said it would impose freight surcharges of $300 for each truck shipment and $600 for each rail shipment beginning Aug. 1 in the United States.
Mr. Putin said that linking both Koreas with the trans-Siberian railway would cut freight deliveries from the Pacific to Europe from 25 to 12 days, while also providing a humanitarian rescue for North Korea, which would reap more than $100 million a year in revenues.
A proposed Slough International Freight Exchange (Sife) would allow freight to be transported between rail and roads, and create jobs.
Bruce Seeley, professor of history and chair of the social sciences department at Michigan Technological University, reminded would-be seers that planners didnt anticipate how the interstate would affect freight movement.
Plans under consultation would see freight brought into the UK via Felixstowe, Hull or the Channel ports, arriving into a proposed distribution centre and the East Midlands region by rail, rather than road.
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