KSU : Kansas City Southern
Sector: Transportation > Industry: Misc. Transportation
Kansas City, Southern (KCS), is a holding company with internal and external rail operations in North America, which focus on the north / south cargo connecting corridor key commercial and industrial markets in the central United States with many industrial cities in Mexico. The company is primarily engaged in the freight business of railroad transportation.. It generates income and cash flows, providing its clients with freight delivery services and within its areas, and throughout North America through links with another Class, I transfer airlines by train. KC clients run business in many different industries, including electrically generating utilities, chemical and petroleum products, paper and timber, agriculture and mineral products, automotive products and transport related to the use of various modes of transport. Kansas City Southern Railroad Company (KCSR), branch of the Company – United States Class I railroad. KCSR serves 10 state areas in the Midwest and southeastern regions of the United States and has a north / south rail route between Kansas City, Missouri and several key ports along the Gulf of Mexico in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.
KCS operates and owns all the securities of Kansas City South de Mexico, S.A. de K.V.. (KCSM). KCS previously owned these securities through its wholly owned subsidiary, KCSM Group, S.A. de K.V.. (KCSM Group), formerly known as Grupo Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana, S.A. de K.W., or Grupo TFM. Through his 50-year Concession from the Mexican government (Concession), which will expire in 2047, if not expanded, KCSM operates a key commercial corridor of the Mexican railroad system and has as its main route the most strategic part of the shortest, the most direct rail passage between Mexico City and Laredo, Texas. KCSM serves most of Mexico's major industrial cities and three of its major seaports.
KCSM Railways provide exceptional rail access to the United States-Mexico border crossing at Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, the largest rail freight exchange point between the United States and Mexico. Under the Concession, the KCSM is authorized to operate and operate the southern half of the railway bridge at Laredo, Texas, which spans the Rio Grande River between the United States and Mexico.
The company is wholly owned by, directly and indirectly through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Mexrail, Inc. (Mexrail), to whom, in its turn, wholly owned by the Mexican Texas Railway Company (Tex-Mex). Tex-Mex owns a 157-mile railway, extending from Laredo, Texas to the port city of Corpus Christi, Of Texas, which connects the KCSR actions to the KCSM. Tex-Mex connects with KCSM in the United States / the Mexican border at Laredo, Texas, and connects to KCSR via trackage rights in Beaumont, Texas. Through its Mexrail property, the Company owns the northern half of the railway bridge at Laredo, Texas. The company also operates the southern half of this bridge through its KCSM property..
KCS coordinated the rail network (KCSR, KCSM и Tex-Mex) includes approximately 6 000 miles main and railway lines, extending from the Midwest and southeastern parts of the southern United States to Mexico, and connects with other Class I railways, providing shippers with an efficient alternative to other rail routes and providing direct access to Mexico and the southeastern and southwestern United States through less crowded exchange centers.
Other branches and subsidiaries of KCS include the Meridian Highway, limited liability company (MSLLC), 73 % owned subsidiary of the consolidation, which owns the former KCSR railway between Meridian, Mississippi and Shrivport, Louisiana, which is part of the KCSR railroad between Dallas, Texas and Meridian, known as the Meridian Freeway. Norfolk South Corporation (NOT SPECIFIED) through its wholly owned subsidiary, Alabama Great South Railroad Company, the remaining 27 % MSLLC. Ultimately KCS will have 70 % and NOT REFINED will have 30 % MSLLC after additional capital contribution NOT REFINED to MSLLC or its affiliates.
PABTEX i, L.P., wholly owned subsidiary and consolidated bulk carrier owner with offshore Gulf of Mexico access in Port Arthur, Texas, which stores and transfers petroleum coke from wagons to ships, primarily for export; Submitting a deal, Inc. (doing business like Superior Link and Timber), wholly owned and consolidated railroad forest operator binds the processing facility, и Transfin Insurance, Ltd., wholly owned and consolidated captive insurance company, securing property, general liability and certain other insurance coverage to KCS and its subsidiaries and affiliates.
South Capital Corporation, limited liability company (Southern Capital), 50 % owned an unconsolidated branch, which leases locomotives and other equipment and Ferrocarril y Terminal del Valle de Mexico, S.A. de K.V.. (FTVM), 25 % owned an unconsolidated branch, which provides railway services, as well as ancillary services in the greater area of Mexico City.
The company competes with the BNSF Railroad Company and the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
