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...But, overall, surveys chart a retreat in the democratic spirit after a high-water mark in the decade after the end of the Soviet Union and apartheid in the 1990s....
...As it stands, there are two competing big operators in Canada (CP and Canadian National), CSX and Norfolk Southern in the eastern US and Union Pacific and BNSF in the west....
...Rising fuel prices also cut into railroad operator Union Pacific’s margins, alongside logjams at ports leading the company to warn that it now expects shipping volumes to grow at a slower rate this year...
...The US railroad operator Union Pacific on Thursday warned that it would do less business for the rest of the year than it had anticipated because of supply chain disruptions, including congestion at ports...
...California ports in Long Beach, Los Angeles and Oakland reported delays earlier this year, and this month the Union Pacific and BNSF railroads made it clear that the problem had reached inland....
...And As You Sow, a San Francisco non-profit that files shareholder petitions with investors, launched a “say on climate” proposal at US railroad Union Pacific too....
...His epiphany came at the age of six, he says, when seeing electric trains at the Union Pacific railroad where his father worked led to the vision of a pure electric freight truck....
...According to an interview he gave to trade publication Trucks.com in 2019, his father was a manager at the Union Pacific railroad, and his mother died of cancer when he was a teenager....
...The land lies on either side of the Union Pacific railroad, which originally received it from the federal government during the frontier era before its sale to Anadarko....
...“This year will mark a turning point in the US market and we will pursue a V-shaped recovery there,” Hyundai said....
...The union represents dockworkers at about 30 ports along the US and Canadian Pacific coasts and in Panama, giving it influence in world trade flows....
...We’re not afraid of China the way we feared the Soviet Union,” says Launius....
...In an internal meeting after he assumed power in 2012, President Xi Jinping said no one in the Soviet Union had been “man enough” to stand up to Mikhail Gorbachev and glasnost....
...Jenny Holloway, chief executive of Fashion Enter, which supplies clothes to Marks and Spencer and Asos, said several of her machinists from eastern Europe were returning home because uncertainty around the...
...It marks the latest move by China to shape global governance and chip away at US dominance....
...companies such as the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific, along whose original tracks he’d walked in Utah in 1994....
...Mark Simon, assistant vice-president for the international container business of Union Pacific, operator of the US’ biggest rail network, says that before the arrival of the bigger ships, vessels would discharge...
...Some Democrats, labour unions and progressive groups strongly oppose the deal, but the unusual alliance between Mr Obama and House Republicans is poised for a victory....
...“Last year was the worst it has ever been,” Mr Burkhart says of the service the company received from Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Canadian Pacific, the two railroads that serve its nine facilities....
...I still doubt that this extends to the Baltic states, which in theory “benefit” from protection under Nato’s Article V defence clause....
...chief executive of Union Pacific, the US’s biggest freight railroad....
...The latest version of the Soyuz is based on the same technology that triggered the space race, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik into orbit more than 50 years ago....
...The line up is: Portugal v Sweden, France v Ukraine, Greece v Romania and Iceland v Croatia PlayStation 4 launches Sony launches its PlayStation 4 in the US....
...First, the struggle for power in Germany holds the key to understanding Europe’s history, at least since the age of Charles V, who ruled the Holy Roman Empire – roughly speaking, modern Germany – from 1519...
...So now I want to build a railroad [in California] and people say we can’t do it. I think there’s a demoralisation, a flagging of spirit. We have to light that fire.”...
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