Kansas City Southern de México

The Kansas City Southern de México ( KSCM ) is a Mexican Railway Company. The for Kansas City Southern (KCS ) owned company was called up to the December 2005 Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana ( TFM). Seat of the railway company is Mexico City. The company has 3622 employees and a fleet of 467 locomotives.

Route network

The approximately 4280 km long own route network is located in northeastern Mexico. To this end, the Company has route rights of 870 km. The network connects Mexico City to the border crossing to the United States in Laredo, as well as the ports of Veracruz, Tampico and Lázaro Cárdenas.

History

In 1995, the Mexican government decided to privatize the state-owned railway company Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México. This is not the entire network and the operation was privatized as a company, but it was many years operating rights to travel on certain route networks advertised. For the route network in the Northeast the Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana was awarded the concession for 50 years. At this company in the state of Mexico were involved with 20 % and the company Grupo Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana ( GTFM ) with 80%. The latter was one of 38.5 % of Mexican Grupo TMM to 36.9 % of KCS and 24.6% to the state. Initial operation of the new railway company was the 23rd June 1997. Effective 29 July 2002 Mexico sold its shares in GTFM so that the Grupo TMM and KCS 53.4 % held 46.6 % of the company. In the period following the KCS tried to take complete control of the TFM. Due to the negotiations with the TMM and the Mexican government to take over the shares, resistors of the Mexican antitrust authority and claims relating to the acquisition until the spring of 2005 delayed. On April 1, 2005, the Kansas City Southern, the shares of TMM in Grupo TFM and the acquire state of the TFM and thus gained control of the company. Then the company was renamed Kansas City Southern de Mexico ( KCSM ) in December 2005.

After obtaining the concession began to invest in the expansion of the route network and the vehicle fleet. Thus the oldest locomotives dating from 1994. Much of the vehicle fleet is built in 1995 to 1999. 78 % of the network consist of welded tracks.