Transportación Ferroviaria Mexicana (TFM)

Grupo Transportación Ferroviaria Mexicana, S.A. de C.V. (TFM), which means “Mexican Railway Transportation” in English, is the principal Mexican railroad, hauling cargoes over a main-line network of 2,660 miles. This line—almost all of it single-track—runs between Mexico City and Nuevo Laredo, from where it crosses the Rio Grande and connects to other rail lines in the United States and Canada. TFM handles 60 percent of all rail traffic crossing the U.S.-Mexican border and has access to nearly 70 percent of Mexico’s population. Spurs or trackage rights link the main line to such important industrial cities as Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla, and Querétaro, and to Mexico’s three main seaports: Lázaro Cárdenas, Tampico, and Veracruz. Grupo TFM is owned by Kansas City Southern Industries Inc. (KCSI), a holding company that owns—wholly or partly—four U.S. railway lines.

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Grupo Transportación Ferroviaria Mexicana, S.A. de C.V. (TFM), which means “Mexican Railway Transportation” in English, is the principal Mexican railroad, hauling cargoes over a main-line network of 2,660 miles. This line—almost all of it single-track—runs between Mexico City and Nuevo Laredo, from where it crosses the Rio Grande and connects to other rail lines in the United States and Canada. TFM handles 60 percent of all rail traffic crossing the U.S.-Mexican border and has access to nearly 70 percent of Mexico’s population. Spurs or trackage rights link the main line to such important industrial cities as Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla, and Querétaro, and to Mexico’s three main seaports: Lázaro Cárdenas, Tampico, and Veracruz. Grupo TFM is owned by Kansas City Southern Industries Inc. (KCSI), a holding company that owns—wholly or partly—four U.S. railway lines.

Subject ID: 9230

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