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(Source: Supply Chain Dive, January 20, 2023)

Federal regulators will closely monitor railroads’ use of embargoes following uproar over a major carrier’s move to limit traffic in the upper Midwest. Surface Transportation Board Chairman Marty Oberman said Thursday that regulators have seen an increasing use of embargoes as a way to control congestion not caused by natural disasters or circumstances out of a railroad’s control.

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