CHICAGO — In a preview of operations planned if their merger is approved, Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern have launched interline intermodal service between Mexico’s port of Lázaro Cárdenas and Chicago. The first train arrived at CP’s Bensenville Yard in Illinois on Tuesday.
CP said in a press release the service was launched “out of the need to avoid excessive delays due to the unprecedented and ongoing supply chain challenges facing North America’s West Coast.” Total transit time from arrival in port in Mexico to arrival at Bensenville was seven days.
“This Mexico-to-Midwest train is a proof of concept and a sign of things to come if a combined Canadian Pacific Kansas City network is approved by the Surface Transportation Board,” CP CEO Keith Creel said. “… I would envision creating a new Mexico Midwest Express interline service” as an alternative to other rail routes and movement by truck.
The new company would make the investments needed to offer regular single-line service between Lázaro Cárdenas and Chicago, CP says.
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