- Increased efficiency
- Decreased emissions of pollutants
- Decreased energy consumption
- Decreased greenhouse gas emissions
- Reduced highway gridlock by taking trucks off the road
- Reduced road maintenance and construction
- Reduced material handling and packaging costs
- Increasingly advantageous as diesel prices rise
- Not impacted by chronic truck driver shortage
- Trains are the safest mode of transportation in the U.S.

Transloading and warehousing provide not only the environmental benefits of shipping by rail, but also a turnkey logistics solution that combines the economies of rail, the flexibility of trucking, and the cost savings of JIT inventory management.