APL and SP Archives - Southern Pacific Railroad History Center https://splives.org/forums/topic-tag/apl-and-sp/ Southern Pacific Lives Here Mon, 15 Jan 2024 18:49:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://splives.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/cropped-removal.ai_ad91e945-9657-488b-872a-ee465a96f444-ezgif-2-26c6966d0f-32x32.png APL and SP Archives - Southern Pacific Railroad History Center https://splives.org/forums/topic-tag/apl-and-sp/ 32 32 227189692 Southern Pacific and American President Lines (APL) https://splives.org/forums/topic/southern-pacific-and-american-president-lines-apl/ Mon, 15 Jan 2024 18:49:23 +0000 https://splives.org/forums/topic/southern-pacific-and-american-president-lines-apl/ As a former lawyer with both Southern Pacific Transportation Company and the APL Stacktrain (as it was generally known), I was in the middle of the complex and often elaborate […]

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]]> As a former lawyer with both Southern Pacific Transportation Company and the APL Stacktrain (as it was generally known), I was in the middle of the complex and often elaborate relationship between the railroad and APL. Between APL’s international business and APL Stacktrain’s domestic and third party international business, APL was the biggest shipper of containers on the railroad in the 1990s. This created opportunities and obstacles. Among the opportunities was APL’s active role in directing and overseeing the logistics of running the double stack trains. One obstacle was the fact that APL had so much business that, as the railroads merged and consolidated, it was difficult to create much competition for the business. An interesting issue was to what degree antitrust regulations and law impacted a relationship where certain segments of the railroad and APL could be viewed as competitors.

I look forward to the thoughts and memories of other folks who were involved in this relationship, a relationship that spanned decades as intermodal traffic grew to become a dominant sector of railroad traffic.

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