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2024 SmartWay Leader: Lineage
SMARTWAY PROFILES IN LEADERSHIP AREA OF
EMPHASIS.
Influential Collaboration — Those intentional cooperative
endeavors that advance freight sustainability, including
modeling and championing accountability, inspiring market
and industry transformations impacting how freight is moved
and sharing successful efficiency strategies within the freight
industry.
"Combining our leading facility footprint, a railcar
network and data-driven transportation
management systems enables us to further
optimize freight, create greater efficiencies,
generate greater supply chain visibility and
provide a new ease of doing business for our
customers."
- Greg Lehmkuhl, President and CEO, Lineage
ABOUT COMPANY
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Lineage, Inc. is the world's largest
global temperature-controlled
warehouse real estate investment
trust (REIT). Lineage's network
includes over 480 strategically
located facilities that total over 84
million square feet and approximately
3.0 billion cubic feet of capacity
across countries in North America,
Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
For more information, visit our
website:
www.onelineage.com
Contact Christina Wiese,
Public Relations Manager
at PR(a)onelineage.com
ADVANCING LOGISTICS WITH SUSTAINABLE RAIL SOLUTIONS.
Lineage Inc.'s ("Lineage") move to diversify supply chain resources with rail transportation is a strategic shift in
its logistics management offerings, embracing rail and other non-road alternative modes to provide
economic and sustainable goods movement choices. Rail cars offer a significant capacity advantage,
capable of holding an average of four times more cargo than a typical truckload1. Shifting inventory to rail
transportation can reduce the number of trucks on the road, help alleviate road congestion, and improve
transportation efficiency. Estimates indicate a single gallon of diesel fuel can move a ton of freight over 470
miles via rail2. In general, rail freight consumes an average of three times less energy per ton-mile, relative to
moving the same goods by truck2. Some industry sources project that "moving freight by rail instead of truck
lowers GHG emissions by up to 75 percent".3
In response to demand for more efficient and sustainable cold-chain options, Lineage introduced integrated
refrigerated and insulated railcar solutions to provide customer options that can help reduce waste and
spoilage in the food supply chain. The acquisition of Cryo-Trans is a major component of Lineage's
commitment to investing in creative and end-to-end solutions for its customers.
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Cryo-Trans, which owns more than 2,220 refrigerated and insulated rail cars and provides real-time
technology to facilitate tracking of over 40,00 rail shipments annually, brought extensive expertise in
sustainable and cost-efficient long-haul transportation options to Lineage extending the company's mode-
integrated services.4
According to Lineage, this integration is potentially transformative, emphasizing the optimization of freight,
enhanced operational efficiencies, and greater supply chain visibility facilitated by Lineage's strategically
located facilities and advanced railcar network. This combination of Cryo-Trans rail operations and cryo
facility network enables Lineage to offer customized rail options that are tailored to diverse customer needs.
Real-time tracking capabilities, provided by GPS and door sensors on railcars help ensure thorough
monitoring and traceability throughout each shipment's journey. These competencies are crucial for
customers seeking reliable and efficient transportation solutions across extensive distances. One pilot that
demonstrates this need is Lineage's deployment of an innovative rail solution for a quick serve restaurant
customer and its potato producer shipments from the Pacific Northwest to Wilmington, Illinois - a trip
spanning approximately 2,000 miles for these perishable products. This movement is made possible through
the design of a digitally connected network to form a cold chain - with railcars as "modes" and warehouses
as "nodes" - that is verifiable, robust, and capitalizing on efficiencies at each step.
In 2023, Lineage successfully managed hundreds of intermodal loads, with a notable 24 percent increase
recorded in the first half of 2024. This growing demand signal for effective rail solutions has spurred
Lineage's commitment to more sustainable transportation, particularly in the redistribution segment of its
business.
REFERENCES:
(1) https://www.up.com/customers/track-record/tr030822-12-train-facts-you-might-not-
know.htm#:~:text=Because%20rail%20cars%20can%20hold,that%27s%20a%20lot%20of%20trucks!
(2) https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/doe-eere-modal-reports_rail-energy-
emissions-action-plan.pdf
(3) https://www.aar.org/issue/freight-rail-climate-change/
(4) https://www.onelineage.com/news-stories/lineage-first-temperature-controlled-warehousing-
OUTCOME/ RESULT/ IMPACT
% Capitalizing on fuel-efficiency of rail movement relative to over-the-road modes.
• Creating opportunities for intermodal shifts where the movement requirements align with rail
characteristics.
refrigerated
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% Expanding rail offerings for climate-controlled goods.
• Using real-time rail and truck telematic monitoring
technology to improve confidence in cold-chain quality.
• Investing in additional assets to accommodate positive
market response and customer demand.
"LEADING THE WAY": TRANSFERABLE LESSON LEARNED.
Intermodal transport and the incorporation of rail services into
supply chains have well studied sustainability benefits that are
supported by real-world experience. Intermodal cold chains
may require investment in technology to provide customers
confidence in the condition of goods needing controlled
environments. Real-time tracking capabilities, enhanced by GPS
and sensors on railcars (and trucks), help build customer
confidence in and enhance logistics troubleshooting.
Intermodal offerings and rail services are particularly popular within Lineage's redistribution segment and are
sending signals that expansion of this offering may be warranted.
CONCLUSION.
Demand for intermodal offerings and rail services are increasing in popularity within certain segments and,
with additional investment in cold-chain technology integration at each step of goods movement, can
provide significant sustainability benefits.
SmartWay Profiles in Leadership
Profiles in Leadership is SmartWay's newest recognition initiative. Beginning this year, EPA will
recognize freight sustainability leadership actions of SmartWay Affiliates and eligible SmartWay
Partners (Logistics companies, Air carriers, Barge carriers and Rail carriers). EPA developed this
recognition concept after hearing that Affiliates and Partners would like to see greater opportunities
for recognition of sector leadership. EPA SmartWay created this new type of recognition to provide
additional opportunity for advancing freight transportation sustainability.
SmartWay defines leadership in this context as the ability to drive change, influence industry, lead
freight efficiency performance, and sustain freight-related environmental excellence. Profiles in
Leadership is an official SmartWay program acknowledgement of leadership demonstrated by
investments that are strategic, financial, and innovative, which will yield future environmental and
efficiency benefits.
| Call-Out Benefit
Rail miles are inherently
more energy efficient -
using an average of three
times less energy per ton-
mile compared to a typical
long-haul truck—and can
reduce the environmental
and societal impacts of
road congestion by
reducing the number of
truck miles in goods
movement.
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