Regulatory Agencies

Samsung is seeking $186 million from CMA CGM alleging improper container charges and failed inland deliveries. 

A major chemical producer boosted the UP-NS merger, saying the proposed transcon will help it reach eastern markets.

Newsom signs California bills increasing cold-storage warehouse accountability after massive Lineage fire.

National Farmers Union cites higher costs, less reliability of past rail mergers.

The Surface Transportation Board strengthened its bench, adding two longtime railroad executives to its ranks. 

The Surface Transportation Board rejected opponents’ attempts to quickly halt the proposed Union Pacific–Norfolk Southern merger.

Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena is critical of rival railroads’ plans to request trackage rights over a combined UP-Norfolk Southern system. “The idea to give up tracks of your railroad for no reason at all just goes against the fundamental principle of how … business should work,” Vena told an investor conference. Last week BNSF […]

Would-be participants have until the end of September to make a formal filing in the Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger review.

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern insist their merger application meets regulatory thresholds and urge the STB to proceed with the review.

The Surface Transportation Board resumed its review of the Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger after lifting a prior delay.

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern turn to former federal anti-trust officials to refute claims by red state Attorneys General opposing their transcontinental rail merger. 

A federal appeals court rejects rail industry arguments that the two-person crew rule was arbitrary and overreaching.

The merger filing of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern still lacks information for proper federal review, say shippers’ trade groups.

Regulators for the first time approved a controversial $5 billion project in U.S. waters to produce liquefied natural gas for export.

Richard J. Kloster has been sworn in as the newest member of the Surface Transportation Board.  

Opponents of a controversial transcontinental rail merger hailed the House transportation appropriations committee’s backing of a ‘rigorous’ review of the deal by federal regulators.

A California rule on meal and rest breaks for bus drivers was shot down by a federal court.

The Federal Maritime Commission regulator filled its remaining vacant seat with yet another Florida native.

The Surface Transportation Board granted conditional acceptance of the revised UP-NS merger application. What does that mean for the proposed transcontinental rail merger?

The Surface Transportation Board gave conditional approval of the Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern revised merger application, but asked for more information.