crossborder trade

Ceremony marks CPKC opening of second US-Mexico rail bridge

Canadian Pacific Kansas City held the official opening ceremonies for the new Patrick J. Ottensmeyer International Railway Bridge, the second span crossing the Rio Grande at the busiest rail gateway between the United States and Mexico.

“The name Patrick J. Ottensmeyer will forever be a part of the proud history of Kansas City Southern and the legacy of CPKC,” CPKC Chief Executive Keith Creel said in a release marking the ribbon-cutting event. “Pat believed strongly in the work our railroaders...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ceremony-marks-cpkc-opening-of-second-us-mexico-rail-bridge

CPKC completes second span over Rio Grande at Laredo gateway

The $100 million Patrick J. Ottensmeyer International Railway Bridge is officially complete.

The second span across the Rio Grande — linking Laredo, Texas, with Nuevo Laredo, Mexico — doubles Canadian Pacific Kansas City’s cross-border capacity because it allows the railway to eliminate the four-hour northbound and southbound directional running windows that created bottlenecks on its original lone single-track bridge.

“Completion of this internationally important project more than doubles our...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cpkc-completes-second-span-over-rio-grande-at-laredo-gateway

Canadian rail lockout – SONAR datasets to watch

CN and CPKC have locked out employees as of 12:01 a.m. Thursday. The industries to be most heavily impacted are those in bulk commodities. Canada is a major producer of grain, potash and metallurgical coal. In general, those industries have no reasonable method to get their products to market, which largely involves movement to ports for export, without the railways. Other impacted industries that move via rail carload include automotive, forest products, chemicals and petroleum. Grain...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/canadian-rail-strike-sonar-datasets-to-watch

Trudeau urges more talks as US railroads brace for Canada rail shutdown

Shippers on both sides of the cross-border supply chain are bracing for an unprecedented shutdown of Canada’s largest rail networks that could disrupt freight traffic, including peak season intermodal shipments and the critical fall grain harvest.

The contract dispute covers a combined 9,300 union employees ranging from train crews to dispatchers at Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC), the country’s largest railroads. Employees represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/trudeau-urges-more-talks-as-us-railroads-brace-for-canada-rail-shutdown

FreightWaves Flashback: What NAFTA means for cross-border trade

FreightWaves Classics articles look at various aspects of the transportation industry’s history. If there are topics that you think would be of interest, please send them to [email protected]

The many industries that make up the world of freight have undergone tremendous change over the past several decades. Each week, FreightWaves explores the archives of American Shipper’s nearly 70-year-old collection of shipping and maritime publications to showcase interesting freight stories of...

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FreightWaves 3PL Summit: Intermodal raising service to stay on track (with video)

When Celtic International President Doug Punzel looks back at the intermodal marketing company’s volumes in mid-June, he sees Celtic beating last year’s levels for the same week. Intermodal volume reported by the country’s major railroads, meanwhile, is slowly climbing out of the double-digit year-over-year decreases that hit the industry during the first quarter of the year.

Both trends are reasons for Punzel to believe the intermodal market is in a relatively good position for the second half...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-3pl-summit-intermodal-raising-service-to-stay-on-track-with-video