North Star Utilizes Advanced Rail Technology to Bring Intermodal to the Upper Great Plains

North Star Rail Intermodal increases farmer, processor and producer profitability by providing container-based intermodal grain transportation services from Western Minnesota and eastern regions of North and South Dakota to international ports in Asia, Europe and Latin America.

The Company offers competitive, regularly scheduled shipping services to ethanol producers (for Distiller’s Dried Grains with Solubles, or “DDGS”), to growers and processors of Identity Preserved food-grade soybeans and wheat products, and to other value-added soybean feed and specialized grains.

North Star capitalizes on three singular current events:

1. The explosion in the number of ethanol producing plants capitalizing on the increasingly high price of petroleum based fuels and the expansion of IP grain production in Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota,
2. The availability of unique intermodal technology that can bring cost-effective container transportation to rural areas, and
3. Low-cost outbound ocean container transportation to Asia and Europe arising from America's large trade imbalance with foreign manufacturing countries.

By applying the leverage of this unique intermodal rail technology to agricultural transportation requirements, North Star increases farmer and processor competitiveness by offering intermodal services for rural agriculture at bulk price ranges.