Intermodal Chassis Provisioning and Supply Chain Efficiency: Equipment Availability, Choice, and Quality

By: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and Transportation Research Board and Consensus and Advisory Studies Division and Committee on the Best Practices for the Efficient Supply of Chassis for Transporting Intermodal Containers

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Synopsis: Container shipping was brought to a near standstill following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, but the demand for containerized cargo surged later that year and during 2021 and 2022 as the economy rebounded. Additional logistics capacity could not be brought online fast enough to meet the increased demand, and chassis were among the many transportation assets in short supply and out of position. TRB Special Report 352: Intermodal Chassis Provisioning and Supply Chain Efficiency: Equipment Availability, Choice, and Quality, released this week from TRB and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, provides recommendations in response to a request from the U.S. Congress for the National Academies to study “best practices for on-terminal or near-terminal chassis pools that provide service to marine terminal operators, motor carriers, railroads, and other stakeholders that use the chassis pools, with the goal of optimizing supply chain efficiency and effectiveness” for the Federal Maritime Commission.