President Joe Biden’s executive order targeting the maritime and railroad industries, among others, calls for enhancing competition for shippers. One of the issues that the July order directs the Surface Transportation Board to examine is reciprocal switching. The board can do this by beginning a rulemaking or reinvigorating an earlier proceeding on the issue.
Broadly speaking, reciprocal switching occurs when a shipper has access to one freight railroad but wants access to use a nearby...
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