CASE STUDY When a rail-based business fell on hard times due to the recession, its entrepreneurial owner didn’t give up. With out-of-the-box ideas on how to restructure intermodal aided by lifting technology from Konecranes, he built a bright new future for his company. Intermodal shipping innovator Windsor Transload provides an effective alternative for customers without railroad tracks accessing their facility. A division of Essex Hybrid, Windsor Transload serves a specific segment of the steel industry by transferring steel products from trucks to railcars. The company provides transfer services at its Windsor, Ontario terminal, shipping steel to customers throughout Canada and the Eastern United States. While the ingeniously simple business plan was the brainchild of Winds

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