Shipper groups urge STB to reject Union Pacific–Norfolk Southern merger bid

The shipper groups—The Alliance for Chemical Distribution (ACD), American Chemistry Council (ACC), The Fertilizer Institute (TFI), and the National Industrial Transportation Group—stated that UP and NS have not provided enough information regarding the merger and its impact to enable the STB to “find it meets the statutory public-interest standard,” or prima facie (accepted as correct until showing otherwise).