#1 - Farrukh Bezar

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BY BYRON PORTER · January 16, 2025 · 1 MIN READ

For the first episode of The Pacific Podcast, I was joined by Farrukh Bezar, the former Chief Strategy Officer of CSX. We covered a lot of ground and touched on some of the following topics:

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Velocity24.8 mph

Dwell23.5 h

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