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Canadian Pacific’s Merger With Kansas City Southern Is Approved

Supply Chain Brain

The new network could draw traffic away from U.S. West Coast ports to gateways in Canada and Mexico, and tens of thousands of shipments away from trucks, an environmental selling point for the combination

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Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (March 17, 2023)

Talking Logistics

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CP Rail Agrees to Buy Kansas City Southern for $25 Billion

Supply Chain Brain

Canadian Pacific Railway is aiming to create a 20,000-mile rail network linking the U.S., Mexico and Canada in the first year of those nations’ new trade alliance

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Supply Chain News on Three Federal Maritime Commissioners ask STB to Stop Kansas City Southern Takeover

Supply Chain Digest

Allege Canadian Pacific Railway will Divert Containers from US to Canadian Ports

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Supply Chain News on The Latest News on Kansas City Southern Takeover Drama

Supply Chain Digest

Canadian National Seems Likely to Win, but some Analysts Say Money there for Canadian Pacific to Make Higher Bid

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Less than Truckload Freight Rates: Kansas City, MO

Freightera

LTL Freight Rates: from Major Cities in the USA and Canada to Kansas City, Missouri. From Kansas City MO to Austin TX : $234.16 From Poughkeepsie NY to Kansas City MO: $300.49 From Kansas City MO to Libertyville IL : $204.65

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Supply Chain Cartoon Caption Winner for October 6, 2021 Contest

Supply Chain Digest

Kate Luby of Kansas City Takes Home the Prize with a Great Caption

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Team Flares Chemical Gas From Derailed Train Cars in Ohio to Prevent Explosion

Supply Chain Brain

Norfolk Southern says shipments are being delayed across an area from Chicago to New York and Kansas City as workers try to clear the scene.

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K.C. Southern Morphs From Rail Dark Horse to $30 Billion Prize

Supply Chain Brain

In less than a year, Kansas City Southern has transformed from an industry wallflower to the belle of the ball, getting courted by Canada’s two biggest railroads

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Canadian Pacific Wins Buyout War for K.C. Southern, Defeating CN

Supply Chain Brain

sealed a $27 billion deal to acquire Kansas City Southern, claiming a prize that will create the first railroad spanning the U.S., After months of twists and turns, Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for Aug. 12, 2021

Supply Chain Digest

Who will Win Kansas City Southern Bid, as CP Ups PriceAmid Rising Labor Costs, Walmart DC Workers can Get Big Bonuses. Massive Amazon Air Hub Opens. Judge Rule Swift did not Poach CRST Driver.

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Supply Chain News on Canadian Pacific Finally gets Its US Merger

Supply Chain Digest

CP to Acquire Kansas City Southern for 25 Billion Dollars, Create Extensive North American Nework

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Century-Old Rail Rivalry Flares Up Over a $30 Billion Prize

Supply Chain Brain

s bid to wrest Kansas City Southern away from Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. Canadian National Railway Co.’s is rekindling a century-old rivalry and pitting former colleagues against each other

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for April 22, 2021

Supply Chain Digest

Big Rival Bid for Kansas City Southern. Suez Canal Holding Beached Cargo Until Ship Owner Pays Up. Prices for New and Used Shipping Containers Surging. Dollar General Bets on Brick and Mortar Sales

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Supply Chain News on Mixed Q4 for Rail Carriers after Impact of Tax Cuts

Supply Chain Digest

Volumes Up Big for Kansas City Southern and Norfolk Southern, Flat or Down at CSX and Union Pacific

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on Carrier Operating Performance by Mode for Q2 2016

Supply Chain Digest

Kansas City Southern has Great Quarter, while Old Dominion Slows but Still ar Outperforms RivalsRail Carriers Continue to be Far More Profitable than Truckload or LTL Sectors.

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Supply Chain News on Rail Carriers See Soft Q2 Again in Terms of Volumes, but Stay Very Profitable

Supply Chain Digest

Kansas City Southern Only Carrier to See Profits Up in QuarterRates are Up Marginally on Lower Volumes.

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Beware the Swinging Pendulum on Supply Chain Inventory Practices

Logistics Viewpoints

She considered where she could get more, factoring in that it was Saturday night at 10:00 pm, she lived alone in Kansas City, and she’d be driving by herself.

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CommunityAmerica Credit Union delivers custom-tailored financial services with Axway

Axway

billion in assets and more than 30 branches in the Kansas City and St. By maintaining a laser focus on knowing its members and meeting their needs, CommunityAmerica Credit Union has grown into a major regional financial institution with $4.6

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This Week in Logistics News (May 22 – 28)

Logistics Viewpoints

Gorillas plans to make its US grocery delivery debut in New York City. Kansas City Southern agrees to US$30B CN Rail deal. The parade was used to launch the company’s newly available grocery delivery in parts of the city.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 21 – 27)

Logistics Viewpoints

The automaker on Thursday confirmed its Oakville Assembly Plant in Canada and Kansas City Assembly Plant in Missouri will be down the week of Aug. Kansas City assembles the F-150. On this date, August 27, in 1883, Krakatoa erupted.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

Starting this week, customers across the US will begin to see custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian delivering their Amazon packages , with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 25 – 31)

Logistics Viewpoints

On Sunday night in Miami, FL, the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers will battle it out for football’s ultimate prize. The long wait is over, and we are almost ready for kick-off in the Redemption Bowl. I mean Super Bowl. This Super Bowl is a chance at redemption for the coaches, as both of them lost their lone Super Bowl appearance to the Patriots. Andy Reid has consistently been one of the […].

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This Week in Logistics News (May 14 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

Over the last six years, Class I freight railroads — which include BNSF Railway, CSX Transportation, Kansas City Southern Railway, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific — have hemorrhaged a combined 45,000 workers, according to the Surface Transportation Board.

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Investing in regional supply chains

Resilinc

For example, the merger between Kansas City Southern and Canadian National railways—which if finalized will create a single freight rail network from southern Mexico through the U.S.

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Hurricane Harvey - Effects, Forecasts, and Operational Best Practices

Elementum

Harvey is not the first lethal and damaging flood to hit Houston: Tropical Storm Allison in 2001 killed 41 and caused $9 billion in damage, as well as flooding in 2016 that shut down the city for days. Rail freight networks operated by Kansas City Southern and Union Pacific in Texas, USA were heavily disrupted due to Hurricane Harvey, according to reports on Friday, August 25th.

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COVID-19 and Ukraine Conflict Global Supply Chain News Capsule March 23 2022

Supply Chain Matters

based Kansas City Southern , pending full regulatory approvals which is expected sometime this year. Surface Transportation Board on the merger with Kansas City Southern. .

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This Week in Logistics News (September 12-16, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Google Express, the tech company’s fast delivery service, expands in Kansas City (Kansas City Star). Are you attending the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Annual Conference later this month (September 25-28 in Orlando, FL)? If so, I invite you to attend two of the sessions that I am participating in, both related to transportation management: TMS 4 SMB: A Case Study with Carhartt. Date: Monday, September 26, 2:00-3:15 pm. Room: Sun 3-4.

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XX and XY: A Different World in Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

It is such a very different landscape than the green mountains of my farm in West Virginia or my city streets in Philadelphia. There was no line in the bathroom at the Kansas City CLM conference in 2001, but there will be at the CSCMP conference in San Antonio in 2013. The deserts of the southwest sprawl below me as the plane ascends from San Diego. It appears SO barren from my window in seat 4D. It has been a good week.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 27 – December 3)

Logistics Viewpoints

Retailers face a scarcity of final-stage warehouses near major cities; and as more companies promise same-day or even two-hour arrivals, such space is rising in demand and value. billion of Kansas City Southern’s debt.

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How Nuclear Verdicts are Killing the Trucking Business with Quinn Damon

The Logistics of Logistics

Originally from Kansas City, Quinn is a graduate of the University of Missouri where he studied finance. His entire career has been with Lockton starting at the global headquarters in Kansas City and now in Detroit.

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Why We Bought Freightquote

CH Robinson Transportfolio

It also increases our market share with small businesses and significantly expands our presence in the Kansas City market. Ecommerce is going to be a bigger part of future supply chain services. Our recent acquisition of Freightquote brings us a talented team of logistics professionals who understand truckload, less than truckload, and intermodal services.

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Intermodal Performance in March 2021

Freight Plus

The big news coming out of intermodal in March was the acquisition of Kansas City Southern by Canadian Pacific. March 2021 - Transportation Market Report. Barring approval from the STB (Surface Transportation Board), this will create a rail network that encompasses all of North America.

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Scorecard Helps Angels Value Early-Stage Companies

Marianne Hudson

This past October, I enjoyed watching my hometown Kansas City Royals become the World Champions of baseball. Scorecards are ubiquitous in baseball, helping coaches, players and fans understand the factors that led to a victory or defeat. It turns out that scorecards come in pretty handy for startup business investing, too.

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Webinar Recap: The Case for a Pan-American Manufacturing Ecosystem

Resilinc

The Mexico-US-Canada rail network envisioned in the pending merger of Kansas City Southern with Canadian National would help.

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Philosophy

The Network Effect

For 17 years he paid his dues as an assistant coach – first at the University of Minnesota, then with the Steelers, followed by the Kansas City Chiefs, and finally back to Minnesota. Tony Dungy is a legendary NFL football coach and one of the most respected figures in professional sports. Dungy has a coaching philosophy that produced some great teams, a Super Bowl win and a key to the front door of the Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.

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America Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Importers and exporters in Chicago, Kansas City, and other Midwestern cities have traditionally relied on railroads connected to ports on the West Coast to haul their containers. Businessweek. Planes, Cranes, and Barges: How America Is Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos.