Domestic News

NS Surveys Customers on COVID-19 Business Impact

Norfolk Southern Railway is surveying its customers to learn how state and local governments' executive orders related to the coronavirus pandemic are affecting customers' businesses and transportation requirements.

SRB Opens Second Location

Stucki Roller Bearing (SRB), a division of A. Stucki Company, recently opened a second location in Lincoln, Neb. SRB supplies reconditioned bearings for freight car, locomotive and transit applications.

Kirby Implements Coronavirus Response Plan

Kirby Corp., the nation’s largest inland and coastal tank barge line, has implemented an emergency plan to with deal the coronavirus crisis. The Houston-based operator says its inland barge business is well-positioned financially to weather economic shocks caused by the pandemic.

Vote Axes Mexicali Brewery Project; 76% Say No in Weekend Referendum

The federal government will halt a US $1.4-billion brewery project in Mexicali, Baja California, after citizens overwhelmingly rejected it in a referendum held over the weekend.

International News

Contract for New Rail Link in United Arab Emirates Qwarded to Vossloh

Following Vossolah’s successful completion of Phase One of the new rail link project in the United Arab Emirates – covering the 264km freight line operated by Etihad Rail between the gas fields at Shah and Habshan and the port and industrial city Ruwais in Abu Dhabi – the company has won the contract for the supply of turnouts and rail fasteners for Phase Two of the railway construction project.

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