Sentences with phrase «largest railway companies»

He acts as the representative plaintiff in a $ 1.75 billion class action against the Government of Canada, the Canadian Wheat Board and Canada's two largest railway companies CN and CP, alleging that 100,000 Western grain growers were overcharged for grain transportation for a quarter century.

For example, in 2009 he bought BNSF, the nation's largest railway company, in part because he foresaw rising longterm gas prices giving efficient rail lines an edge over gas - guzzling 18 - wheeler trucks in the business of moving freight.

Not exact matches

The fight for Canadian Pacific Railway by its largest shareholder, Pershing Square Capital Management, epitomizes a growing problem with public company governance.

CALGARY — TransCanada Corp. is moving ahead with a $ 12 - billion plan to ship western oil to Quebec and the East Coast — the largest project in the company's history and one it compares to the Canadian Pacific Railway in its economic impact for the country and trade benefits overseas.

Labour is effectively saying that Britain's civil servants will be able to renationalise the railways, water utilities, the National Grid, Royal Mail, create regional public energy companies, a National Education Service and a National Care Service, create a large National Investment Bank and regional development banks, build a million homes and abolish tuition fees - to name just a few - at the same time as managing Brexit negotiations and their fallout.

But the company also is the outright owner of BNSF Railway, the second largest freight railroad network in North America, as well as some other companies you may have heard of, including Dairy Queen and Fruit of the Loom.

With this system, the company can establish completely mobile check - in counters in locations that might include cruise terminals, hotels, railway stations, and even large conferences and events.

New routes were opened up by the three large Swiss railway companies to take advantage of this new tourism boom, and Glacier Express holidays became popular.

He has for example acted in long - running litigation arising out of the privatisation of the railways of Kenya and Uganda, represented a European state in a dispute in relation to satellite surveillance services, a German bank in its claims arising out of a major fraud to sell non-existent tickets to the Beijing Olympics, a state oil and gas company in relation to a subsea drilling project in the Caribbean, and for a large Russian bank in a major jurisdictional dispute (VTB v. Nutritek).

This case involved a large firm in Saskatchewan, McKercher LLP («McKercher»), that had accepted a retainer to act against the Canadian National Railway Company («CN») in a class action lawsuit notwithstanding the fact that it was acting for CN on a variety of unrelated matters.