Mexican regulators have given their approval to the planned merger of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern.
The railroads announced on Nov. 26 that they had received the required approval from the Mexican Federal Economic Competition Commission and the Mexican Federal Telecommunications Institute.
“This important milestone marks the next step on our path to creating the first single-line rail network linking the U.S., Mexico and Canada,” CP CEO Keith Creel said in a press release.
Up next in the process are votes by the railroads’ shareholders. CP stockholders will vote on Dec. 8, with KCS shareholders voing on Dec. 10.
The approval by Mexican authorities came a few days after the U.S. Surface Transportation Board accepted the two railroads’ merger application and set the timetable to review the transaction [see “Federal regulators formally accept …,” Trains News Wire, Nov. 23, 2021].
Hmmmm. This leads me to an obvious question. Will all documents on this railroad have to be written in English, French, and Spanish?
Or perhaps they compromise and write them in Latin? Or Esperanto?
The $31bn merger deal of Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) and Kansas City Southern (KCS) now awaits the fulfilment of customary closing conditions, such as stockholders’ nod. The stockholders of both railroad companies are expected to vote on the proposed agreement next month, with completion anticipated on 14 December. And so, a gigantic freight train transport & logistics system will be officially born in North America!
Dr. Güntürk Üstün
Now buy Texas Pacifico, Linea & FWWR
Agree, seems like a very good long term business decision. All CP has to do is look the plus side when CN made strategic purchases from Duluth/Superior on down and around Chicago. However, in this day and age of Wall Street above all else I doubt it would happen. Heck, you wondered if CN could have pulled off what it did a few years back if it waited