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...Mallory vs Norfolk Southern Railway Where a company gets sued may seem like a technicality, but to businesses it is of vital importance....
...In response, Ohio’s senators, Republican JD Vance and Democrat Sherrod Brown, led the bipartisan introduction of the Railway Safety Act to address a range of shortcomings in existing railroad regulation....
...It marks the latest effort to shake up a structure among the big railroads in the US and Canada that has been unchanged since CSX and Norfolk Southern — the two big operators in the eastern US — took over...
...The Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers — Transportation Division and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen have said they will not accept any proposal from the railways that...
...Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern both say they move a ton of freight 444 miles on a single gallon of diesel. The industry continues to invest to improve its sustainability....
...The last big deal occurred in 1999, when CSX and Norfolk Southern took over and divided Conrail between themselves....
...During that woeful stretch, Ackman also failed to win shareholder challenges against railroad Norfolk Southern and payroll provider ADP, signifying diminishing effectiveness as an activist....
...Whoever wins the Canadian battle over Kansas City Southern, the smallest of the seven Class 1 railways that haul US freight, will pull off the first major rail deal since 1999, when CSX and Norfolk Southern...
...It is a change of direction for Canadian Pacific, rebuffed in two public courtships of rivals, first of CSX and then of Norfolk Southern. Both concentrated on the US north-east....
...Canadian Pacific Railway’s proposed takeover of the Kansas City Southern railroad is a $29bn bet on smooth commerce between Canada, the US and Mexico after the three countries replaced their contentious...
...But to understand Canadian Pacific Railway’s purchase of US operator Kansas City Southern for $28.9bn, we need to go back 10 years in time....
...The Norfolk Southern Railway, which reports results this week, has outlined plans to eliminate more than 500 positions this year....
...CSX’s eastern rival Norfolk Southern disclosed Wednesday it would adopt precision railroading, meaning a majority of large North American freight rail companies has now embraced it....
...Consolidation has left the US with two main railway companies east of the Mississippi river — CSX and Norfolk Southern — and their networks only partially overlap....
...When CP last year unsuccessfully attempted to take over Norfolk Southern, another eastern US network, the company wrote: “Precision railroading is a set of non-discriminating principles that can be effectively...
...Norfolk Southern, the second-biggest rail operator in the eastern US by network size that CP also tried to take over last year for a second time, also saw its shares advanced 3.6 per cent in pre-market trading...
...of Norfolk Southern....
...Mr Ackman’s exit comes three months after the company failed in its attempt to merge with Norfolk Southern in what Mr Ackman had hoped would be one more round of shareholder-friendly consolidation in the...
...With a market capitalisation of C$25.56bn ($19bn), Canadian Pacific is smaller than both CSX ($23.6bn) and Norfolk Southern ($22bn)....
...When China signed up to build Venezuela’s Tinaco-Anaco Railway in 2009, the scheme was hailed as proof of the effectiveness of socialist brotherhood....
...A series of mergers in the 1990s left just Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe in the western US; Norfolk Southern and CSX in the eastern US; CP and Canadian National in Canada; and Kansas City...
...Jeffrey Heller, a senior executive for Norfolk Southern, one of two big railway operators in the eastern US, says it will continue a gradual shift in trade flows over 10 to 15 years to the US east coast...
...“Norfolk Southern is now the outlier,” Mr Hatch says of how the company has suffered compared with others....
...Bill Ackman stepped up pressure on Norfolk Southern’s board to reconsider its rejection of Canadian Pacific’s takeover proposal when the activist investor fiercely criticised the US railway’s management....
...Norfolk Southern on Tuesday criticised an “unsolicited, low-premium, non-binding and highly conditional” potential bid from Canadian Pacific that would value the US’s fourth-biggest railroad network at around...
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