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...The parent company of Mexican rail company Ferromex, Grupo México, declined to comment....
...Key economic and company reports Here is a more complete list of what to expect in terms of company reports and economic data this week....
...Formerly an investor in NTV, Italy’s private railway operator, other past investments span the sports, banking, media and design industries....
...Cassava, a root vegetable, is a staple food for some 70mn Africans, yet average yields in Nigeria are just six tonnes per hectare....
...Berkshire’s BNSF Railway, which runs from California to Illinois, reported a decline in shipping revenues and said consumer and industry demand had fallen....
...The reason is the difficulty in sourcing items, from computer chips to food staples. If you can solve this problem, you might now find yourself on a company board....
...The network prides itself on being the world’s oldest underground railway and one of its largest....
...The company as a whole reported net income of $1.23bn....
...The American Petroleum Institute, the country’s main oil lobby group, said railways informed energy companies last week that hazardous materials shipments would be curtailed to clear tracks ahead of a potential...
...“The RSF broke our door and came in looking for food and water,” she said in a coffee shop near the railway station in Aswan, as the family awaited a train to Cairo....
...It also has extensive operations in Mexico and owns a 50 per cent stake in the Panama Canal Railway Company....
...Not only are tomatoes, the building blocks of Ghanaian soups and stews, more expensive, but so is garri, the granulated cassava flour that is a food staple across west Africa....
...Identittiby Mithu Sanyal, translated by Alta L Price, V&Q Books £12.99 Questions about race, culture and belonging abound in this entertaining debut by German journalist and academic Mithu Sanyal....
...They include employees of the largest carriers in North America, such as Union Pacific, CSX and BNSF, a business owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway....
...The beauty staple I’m never without is sunscreen, from an Australian brand called Rationale....
...In the last few decades of the 20th century, big domestic pension funds (such as Railpen, the railways scheme) and the insurance companies that managed them (including Standard Life and Scottish Widows)...
...It takes me back to my student days. €2,850, memphis-milano.com The grooming staple I’m never without is a Mason Pearson hairbrush....
...Established some 50 years ago in the forests of mid-Wales, this pioneering eco-attraction was a staple of my childhood summer holidays — the highlight being its water powered-funicular railway....
...True to its heritage as a workwear brand, Armor-lux still produces uniforms too – it is the official outfitter of the French postal service and the SNCF railway staff....
...Instead, Buffett directed Berkshire to pump much of the cash that the company’s various businesses — which span insurer Geico, BNSF Railway and the Dairy Queen ice cream chain — were generating in 2020 and...
...The gains were propelled by strong results from its BNSF Railway and the string of electric utilities it owns....
...Once successful for his industrial and railway work, only a few small buildings survive, including his green shelters for cab drivers — there is one rather battered version outside the V&A....
...Crucial to the production of food staples such as corn, soy, rice and wheat, a sudden plunge in supply threatens to devastate global crop yields....
...There are plenty of food options for a meal or snacks — and you must try the cheese curds (a staple of Canada’s national dish, poutine), which are deep-fried into succulent morsels....
...Of particular note is the great work by BNSF and Union Pacific, which have reduced the rail backlog in half in the last month and by two-thirds over the last two months....
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