Multiple Car Rates and Merchandising Methods
The grain handling and transportation system in North Dakota is experiencing tremendous infrastructural change. Multiple car grain rates, rail line abandonments, energy considerations and technological advances are corollary factors, among others, influencing this transition. Managers of country elevators are faced with decisions concerning capital investment, mergers and/or consolidations, marketing techniques, marketing instruments, plant location, and others. The current response has been to develop a marketing system that will attain efficiencies in both grain handling and transportation. There are economic incentives to develop a system of large country elevators (subterminals) that are capable of shipping grain in multiple car segments. However, many factors must be considered before such a system is developed.
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Corporate Authors:
Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute
North Dakota State University
1320 Albrecht Boulevard
Fargo, ND United States 581052 -
Authors:
- Ming, Dennis R
- Publication Date: 1982-12
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; Tables;
- Pagination: 11p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Economics; Grain; Grain elevators; Marketing; Railroad transportation; Rates
- Geographic Terms: North Dakota
- Subject Areas: Economics; Freight Transportation; Railroads;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01832584
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: UGPTI Staff Paper No. 30, SP-30
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jan 15 2022 6:32PM