May 9, 2024 | Headlines, Mexico, UP
(Source: Trains.com, May 8, 2024) Freight train operations across the U.S.-Mexican border should be as seamless as they are across the U.S.-Canadian border, Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena told a shipper group last week. At gateways to and from Mexico, in most cases,...
January 26, 2024 | CPKC, Headlines, Mexico, UP
(Source: Trains.com, January 25, 2024) Railroad executives will meet with U.S. and Mexican customs officials next month to discuss how they can work together to keep vital rail border crossings open amid the surge in migrants crossing the Rio Grande. Full story:...
January 12, 2024 | CPKC, Headlines, Mexico
(Source: Reuters, January 10, 2024) Mexico’s antitrust authority said on Wednesday it was investigating the country’s freight rail transportation market amid government plans to build out railway infrastructure. Mexico’s rail sector, which moves a...
January 10, 2024 | Headlines, Mexico, UP
(Source: Railway Age, January 5, 2024) Union Pacific, which with Ferromex and BNSF suffered a severe service disruption in December when U.S. Customs and Border Protection unnecessarily closed the U.S./Mexico rail bridges at Eagle Pass and El Paso, Tex., has added a...
December 28, 2023 | Headlines, Mexico
(Source: Associated Press, December 22, 2023) The federal government on Friday reopened two cross-border railroad crossings in Texas, five days after the shuttering of rail operations there disrupted trade and sparked outrage from U.S. and Mexican businesses. Full...
December 21, 2023 | Headlines, KCS, Mexico, UP
(Source: CNN, December 17, 2023) US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will temporarily suspend operations at the international railway crossing bridges in Eagle Pass and El Paso, Texas, due to a surge in border crossings by migrants, the agency announced in a news...
November 22, 2023 | Commuter Rail, CPKC, Headlines, Mexico
(Source: Associated Press, November 20, 2023) Mexico’s government issued a decree Monday that will force private freight railway lines to give preference to passenger train service over their normal freight runs. The decree gives the two main private concessionary...
November 21, 2023 | Commuter Rail, CPKC, Headlines, Mexico
(Source: Trains.com, November 17, 2023) Canadian Pacific Kansas City says it has agreed to study passenger service on part of its freight network in Mexico, and is reviewing a draft decree by the Mexican government regarding passenger train operations. Full story:...
November 16, 2023 | BNSF, Headlines, Mexico, Shippers
(Source: Trains.com, November 13, 2023) BNSF Railway and J.B. Hunt are shifting their Mexico intermodal service to Ferromex via the Eagle Pass gateway, a route they say is a day faster than the current BNSF-Canadian Pacific Kansas City routing via Laredo, Texas. Full...
November 9, 2023 | Commuter Rail, CPKC, Headlines, Mexico
(Source: Associated Press, November 8, 2023) Mexico’s president announced Wednesday that he will require private rail companies that mostly carry freight to offer passenger service or else have the government schedule its own trains on their tracks. President Andrés...
