{"id":7144,"date":"2019-12-30T16:28:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T22:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=7144"},"modified":"2019-12-30T16:28:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T22:28:06","slug":"cp-completes-central-maine-quebec-railway-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=7144","title":{"rendered":"CP Completes Central Maine &#038; Quebec Railway Acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/CP7003.jpg?fit=640%2C400\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/CP7003.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/CP7003-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/CP7003-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/CP7003-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>CALGARY,\u00a0Dec. 30, 2019\u00a0\/PRNewswire\/ &#8211;\u00a0Canadian Pacific (NYSE:\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"CP (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/CP?p=CP&amp;.tsrc=fin-srch\" target=\"_blank\">CP<\/a>) has closed the transaction related to the acquisition of the\u00a0Central Maine\u00a0&amp; Quebec Railway. The acquisition of CMQ in the U.S. remains subject to Surface Transportation Board approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The acquisition, first announced on\u00a0November 20, 2019, will provide CP customers with seamless, safe and efficient access to ports at\u00a0Searsport, Maine\u00a0and to\u00a0Saint John, New Brunswick, via Eastern Maine Railway Company and New Brunswick Southern Railway, thereby preserving and enhancing competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"277\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rsw-600h-600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rsw-600h-600.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rsw-600h-600-300x139.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Pacific (NYSE: CP) has closed the transaction related to the acquisition of the Central Maine &#038; Quebec Railway. The acquisition of CMQ in the U.S. remains subject to Surface Transportation Board approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5637,8475,4552,8222,5992,2203,4957,5676,1210,1397,4017,868],"tags":[5393,3648,3178,3005,2341,7965,3099,274,2900,4202,9060,655,2494,5521,9605,3796,786,2406,8572,9607,2886,3632,8573,718,412,1016,8460,9606,2452,9430,1792,1212,310,5890,4842,4652,8715,8571,785,8925,4742,2718,3791,1691,1658,631],"class_list":["post-7144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-canadian-news","category-cargo-news","category-consumer-news","category-economic-news","category-finance-news","category-global-politics","category-international-news","category-railroad-news","category-stock-news","category-train-news","category-transportation-news","tag-access","tag-acquisition","tag-alberta","tag-approval","tag-board","tag-brunswick","tag-calgary","tag-canada","tag-canadian","tag-central","tag-closed","tag-company","tag-competition","tag-completes","tag-cp","tag-customers","tag-eastern","tag-efficient","tag-emry","tag-enhancing","tag-john","tag-maine","tag-nbsr","tag-new","tag-news","tag-pacific","tag-ports","tag-preserving","tag-prnewswire","tag-provide","tag-quebec","tag-railroad","tag-railway","tag-related","tag-safe","tag-saint","tag-seamless","tag-searsport","tag-southern","tag-subject","tag-surface","tag-train","tag-transaction","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7147,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions\/7147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}