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* Kansas City Southern agreed to pay $200 million in cash to take over Mexico’s largest railroad and create a company, Nafta Rail, that would seek to benefit from rising demand for railway cars used to ship products between the U.S. and Mexico. The fifth-biggest U.S. railroad is taking advantage of its Mexican partner’s financial distress in buying the most profitable unit of Grupo TMM, Mexico’s biggest transportation company.
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