Kansas City Southern names new president

Kansas City Southern names new president Kansas City Southern said David L. Starling has been named president and chief operating officer, “in a move to further strengthen the company’s growing international marketing initiatives and to take advantage of its increasingly important international rail corridor linking North America to global markets.”
   Starling will also serve as president and chief executive of the Kansas City Southern Railway Co. He replaces Arthur Shoener who has resigned.
   Starling is president and director general of the Panama Canal Railway Co. (PCRC), a joint venture of Kansas City Southern and Mi-Jack Products, which he has headed up for more than nine years. Prior to that, he worked 11 years with American President Lines in stacktrain operations and in Asia.
   He began his railroad career in 1971 with the St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad and over the next 14 years held various positions in rail operations there and at Burlington Northern.
   In 1984, Starling joined Mi-Jack Products to help create a terminal operating company, In-Terminal Services (ITS), as general manager. Later, he was named vice president of ITS and launched an aggressive marketing strategy resulting in very rapid growth over a four year period.