Port of Corpus Christi won’t have to enter arbitration with railroads
Posted by admin on December 9th, 2009
CORPUS CHRISTI The Port of Corpus Christi won’t be forced into arbitration with two railroads upset over its demolition of the Tule Lake Lift Bridge.
The 13th Court of Appeals in Corpus Christi issued an opinion Thursday that a trial court was correct when it ruled the port cannot be subjected to arbitration in the issue.
Arbitration is a dispute resolution called for under the contracts that would be final and legally binding.
Kansas City Southern and the Texas Mexican Railway Co. asked for arbitration in September 2008, claiming that when port officials removed the lift bridge last year, they broke agreements signed in 1960 and 1997 that stated the port would maintain the bridge. The port then filed court documents requesting a stay that would hold off arbitration.
District Judge Tom Greenwell granted the stay in March.
The bridge, which provided rail access from the north side to the south side of the Corpus Christi Inner Harbor, was closed to rail traffic in September 2007 when the Joe Fulton International Trade Corridor opened. The railroads, in order to get to the rail yard near the Corpus Christi International Airport, must travel an extra nine miles and pay additional fees.
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Tags: Corpus Christi, Railroads