(Source: DC Velocity, April 18, 2012)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Kansas City Southern Inc. (KCS), the Kansas City, Mo.-based railroad, is poised to significantly expand its presence in the U.S.-Mexico intermodal market, a move that could not only strengthen the railroad’s already-bright future but could also reshape how freight gets moved in one of the world’s most important corridors of commerce.
KCS, the smallest in both geography and finances among the five Class I U.S.-based railroads, differs from its peers in one other important way. Unlike the other four, which have focused on the nation’s east-west landscape, it has built its franchise around north-south routes extending from the upper U.S. Midwest to multiple points inside Mexico.
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