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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....
...Last week, DD told of the anguished transaction attorneys at a prominent New Orleans industry conference who claimed that a set of decisions — including one that invalidated Elon Musk’s $56bn pay package...
...This week, America’s top dealmakers and their expensive lawyers descended on New Orleans for the Tulane University Corporate Law Institute....
...US Customs and Border Protection on Monday closed railway bridges at the cities of Eagle Pass and El Paso, Texas, which respectively rank as the second and fourth busiest freight rail crossings with Mexico...
...India prides itself on its globally connected information technology sector, with a host of domestic and foreign companies clustered in southern India, especially around Bengaluru and Hyderabad, making the...
...Other companies across Japan, including carmaker Toyota and ecommerce group Rakuten, are making similar preparations, with the development of robots and self-driving vehicles as well as consolidations with...
...under the free trade US-Mexico-Canada Agreement as well as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership....
...agriculture, labour laws, and the difficulty of starting a new business....
...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....
...A new centre of gravity The new infrastructure has brought development and wealth to an ever-wider radius around both cities....
...Further layers are being built, which will leverage this digital infrastructure to better match consumers and businesses, facilitate transactions, and ease the cost of doing business....
...Stefania Palma There’s one case in particular that I think might be a bit under the radar. It’s one that is called Mallory versus Norfolk Southern Railway....
...We have holdings in two of the largest — Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific — each of which spans more than 20 states, covers more than 30,000 miles of track and is benefiting from the recovery in the US...
...He has waged battles against companies including Wendy’s, McDonald’s, Fortune Brands, Canadian Pacific Railway and JCPenney....
...Union Pacific is North America’s largest listed freight rail operator, serving cities as far east as Chicago and New Orleans and west as Seattle and Los Angeles....
...Both Canadian National and Canadian Pacific operate in the central and eastern US, as do CSX and Norfolk Southern, while Union Pacific and BNSF are present in the west....
...New Democratic Party: “As long as the world is using oil, I want them to be using our oil, because that’s better for the world — and it’s definitely better for us.”...
...Introducing the Texas two-step The “Texas two-step” is best-known as a country and western dance popularised in southern US states, writes the FT’s Jamie Smyth....
...Kansas City Southern has backed a sweetened $34bn offer from Canadian National in a blow to rival Canadian Pacific, as the bidding war for the railway operator heats up....
...Gilbert is confident that, if the city spends enough, it can survive a two-and-a-half-foot sea rise. Miami, she says, has prepared more than New Orleans, Charleston or Norfolk....
...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....
...Now, Hohn has inserted himself in the takeover battle pitting Canadian National against Canadian Pacific for US railway rival Kansas City Southern....
...Indian Railways, the sprawling national railway company and largest civilian employer with over 1m workers, subsidises passenger tickets by charging more for coal freight, according to Tongia....
...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...
...The shinkansen network is crucial for Japanese commuters who work in large cities such as Tokyo and Osaka. That traffic is the railway companies’ main source of stable income....
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