Another development mostly overlooked in the Great lakes trade is the effective gutting of the Jones Act by the Canadian National Railroad.
CN bought US Steel’s Great lakes Fleet (eight or nine ore carriers) and now operates them out of Duluth.
Is that really a “gutting” of the Jones Act? Since CN is a publicly-traded company, operates in the U.S. and is therefore under Surface Transportation Board oversight to a certain degree, I’m wondering if it’s even considered a foreign railroad anymore.