Rail
Canadian Pacific Railway Limited and Kansas City Southern announced on March 21 that they have entered into a merger agreement, under which CP has agreed to acquire KCS in a stock and cash transaction representing an enterprise value of approximately USD$29 billion. Following final approval from the Surface Transportation Board, the transaction will combine the two railroads to create the first rail network connecting the US, Mexico, and Canada. Joining ...
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Georgia Ports Authority Chief Commercial Officer Cliff Pyron recently briefed the Memphis World Trade Club on Savannah’s expanding rail service to Memphis. At that event, he explained how the
Port of Savannah’s Mason Mega Rail Terminal will be the largest on-dock intermodal rail facility for ...
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DB Schenker has successfully delivered almost 200 components for the world’s largest rail mounted vehicles with a total weight of 90,000 freight tons to BHP’s $3.6 billion South Flank project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Once assembled by the engineers of thyssenkrupp Mining ...
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Four Alaska Marine Lines rail barges are getting new piping and ballast systems designed by marine industry leader Glosten with installation by Meridian Marine Industries. "The rail barges are hitting 20 years of service and were in need of some upgrades," explains John Maketa, T-115 ...
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Track and Infrastructure Design is 100% Completed
Representatives of the Washington State Department of Transportation have recently indicated to the Connell Rail Interchange Coalition that the Connell Rail Interchange Project has reached an important milestone - the track and infrastructure design for the Connell Rail ...
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CSX Corp. announces that James L. Wainscott has been appointed to the company's board of directors, effective immediately. "I am pleased to welcome Jim to the CSX board of directors and look forward to benefiting from his insight and experience having led one ...
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OmniTRAX, one of the fastest growing railroads in North America and an affiliate of The Broe Group, is bringing its Rail-Ready Sites program to the Stockton Terminal and Eastern Railroad (STE). The program, started last year at the Winchester & Western Railroad (WW) in West ...
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North American rail traffic fell 4.9% the week ending July 4, marking the smallest weekly decline since February, helped by gains in U.S. intermodal volume, data from the Association of American Railroads showed.
Carload volume fell 12.5% for the week ended July 4 on 12 reporting ...
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CSX Corp. announced that Ed Harris, executive vice president, will retire from the company on August 1, 2020. Jim Foote, president and chief executive officer said: “On behalf of the Board of Directors and everyone at CSX, I want to thank Ed for his ...
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In
response to heavy customer demand, DHL Global Forwarding, the freight
forwarding specialist of Deutsche Post DHL Group, introduced two new block
train connections from Germany to China at the end of May. A new connection
serving from the KTL terminal on the BASF site in Ludwigshafen travels via
Poland, Belarus, ...
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