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  • Coal being poured at the Hall Street Terminal.

    End of an Era: St. Louis Coal Terminal to Close

    This article originally ran in the Waterways Journal on March 19, 2021. One of the largest and most important rail-to-barge transloading facilities in mid-America is closing, another sign of the decline of…

  • Lindsey Graves, CEO and majority owner of Sunset Transportation, took over the role in late 2020. She sits in an office here.

    Family Business Profile: Sunset Transportation hits the road with second generation at the wheel

    This article originally ran in the St. Louis Business Journal on March 19, 2021.  Lindsey Graves remembers the phone always ringing at her home on Workbench Drive in Sunset Hills. Her dad,…

  • A Kansas City Southern freight train moves across tracks beneath feeder ramps to the Martin Luther King Bridge and past construction equipment on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019, in East St. Louis. The Illinois Department of Transportation announced the bridge will remain closed until next summer at the earliest because extra freight traffic pushed through the region has slowed their ability to work at pace. Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com

    Canadian Pacific to buy Kansas City Southern in $25 billion railway bet on trade

    This article originally ran on STLToday.com on March 21, 2021.  Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. agreed on Sunday to acquire Kansas City Southern in a $25 billion cash-and-stock deal to create the first…

  • Image of a Spirit Airlines yellow plane flying in the air

    New airline coming to St. Louis Lambert, bringing flights to sunny destinations

    This article originally ran on the KSDK website on March 11, 2021.  Spirit Airlines announced plans to add St. Louis Lambert International Airport to its route map with nonstop daily flights. The airline…

  • Photo of a freight train with company logos: ContainerPort Group sells some assets to ITS ConGlobal. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)

    ContainerPort Group sells container yard, depot division to ITS ConGlobal. STL location is part of the acquisition.

    This article originally ran in American Shipper on March 4, 2021.  Cleveland-headquartered ContainerPort Group (CPG) will sell its container yard and depot division to ITS ConGlobal (ITSC), the company said Tuesday. The…