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  Report: CSX sues NS, short line over port terminal business

 From the online Progressive Railroading magazine 10/10/18.


The case alleges NS and the short line boxed out CSX from serving 
Norfolk International Terminals.

Photo – Port of Virginia, NIT camera

CSX <https://www.progressiverailroading.com/csx/>has filed a lawsuit 
againstNorfolk Southern Railway 
<https://www.progressiverailroading.com/norfolk_southern/>andNorfolk & 
Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad <http://www.npblrr.com/>(NPBL), alleging 
the Class I and short line have conspired to create a monopoly at the 
Port of Virginia's largest container facility, a local newspaper has 
reported.

Filed in Norfolk federal court, the case alleges NS and the short line 
boxed out CSX from servingNorfolk International Terminals 
<http://www.portofvirginia.com/facilities/norfolk-international-terminals-nit/>(NIT),/The 
Virginian-Pilot/ 
<https://pilotonline.com/business/ports-rail/article_af3f1988-cb1e-11e8-8f3f-8b53193a4289.html>newspaper 
reported Oct. 8. The case names as defendants three NS vice presidents 
and the president of the Belt Line.

"NS and the NPBL have used the NPBL as a chess piece to establish and 
maintain NS's monopolistic control over intermodal transportation in and 
out of NIT by making it practically impossible for any other rail 
carriers to provide intermodal service to NIT," the suit alleges, 
according to the newspaper.

More cargo arrives and departs NIT by rail than at any other U.S. East 
Coast port. According to the lawsuit, NS' market share in Hampton Roads, 
Virginia, exceeds 70 percent. But, it is about 90 percent at Norfolk 
International Terminals, the paper reported.



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