Surge in Oil Shipments Sidetracks Other Industries

Written By The USA Links on Friday, 14 March 2014 | 06:00


WSJ.com: US Business

Surge in Oil Shipments Sidetracks Other Industries

March 13, 2014 9:25 p.m. ET


A major snarl in railroad traffic is ricocheting through the supply chains of businesses across the U.S., causing delays and losses for shippers of goods ranging from coal to sugar.


Many of the problems stem from pileups at BNSF Railway Co. in a critical northern stretch of the country where it is shipping crude oil from North Dakota's booming Bakken Shale region. The railroad, one of the biggest in North America, was already taxed...





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