AAR’s Jefferies Provides Overview of Freight Railroad Industry
In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and the Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Ian Jefferies, President and CEO of the Association of American Railroads (AAR) in Washington, D.C.
Recording Date/Time
Monday, June 29, 2020 10:35AM
Podcast Duraton
00:15:31 hrs/min/sec
During this podcast, AAR's Jefferies provided a deep overview of the rail carload and intermodal markets.
Themes focused on over the course of this podcast included: the current state of rail and intermodal volumes, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on operations and service; rail-related provision of the INVEST in America Act; and a look at shipper and rail carrier collaboration.
Jefferies started in his role leading the AAR in January 2019 and prior to that he served as the senior vice president of AAR’s government affairs, overseeing the development, promotion, and implementation of legislative priorities for the AAR. And before joining the AAR, Jefferies served as a senior policy advisor to the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, from 2009-2013.
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