BNSF honors 2011 Employees of the Year

BNSF Railway has honored the accomplishments of its 2011 Safety Employees of the Year, Achievement Award winners, and “Best of the Best” safety team leaders.

BNSF, UP ordered to pay rate reparations

The Surface Transportation Board has ordered BNSF and Union Pacific to pay reparations totaling $9,244,144 to Arizona Electric Power Cooperative for rate overcharges for the movement of utility coal.

BNSF’s Carl Ice to keynote RSI/CMA 2012 meeting

BNSF President and Chief Operating Officer Carl Ice will deliver the keynote speech Sept. 24 to the Opening General Session of the Railway Supply Institute’s RSI/CMA 2012 Conference and Trade Show in Chicago.

Rail Logistics-Cold Train announces partnership

Quincy, Wash.-based Rail Logistics-Cold Train and Interstate Distributor Co. have announced a partnership in which Cold Train will utilize a dedicated fleet of trucks from Interstate Distributor Co. for short-haul drayage service to and from the Port of Quincy, Wash., Intermodal Terminal.

BNSF updates data on reduced CO2 emissions

BNSF said Tuesday its customers significantly reduced carbon dioxide emissions in 2011 by shipping their freight by rail instead of their products moving entirely over the road.

Commentary

No surprise: “Big Four” railroads among world’s “most admired” transport firms

Three Class I railroads—Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern and CSX—and Berkshire Hathaway, parent company of BNSF Railway, have been named by Fortune magazine as among the world’s “Most Admired Companies” in 2011. UP,

Maersk Line, BNSF team for “Flagship Service”

Madison, N.J.-based Maersk Line announced on Monday its new “Flagship import service direct from Asia to five key markets in North America—Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Memphis, and northwest Ohio”—in conjunction with Class I railroad BNSF Railway.

Architect of Change Matt Rose: Focused on capital investment

To borrow a term from the automobile industry, when you look closely at BNSF Railway, “this is not your father’s railroad.”

Buffett praises Matt Rose leadership

If 81-year-old Warren Buffett has a short list of candidates to succeed him as head of Berkshire Hathaway, he did not directly allude to it in his annual message to shareholders, released Saturday.

STB slates hearing on effect of BNSF purchase price

The Surface Transportation Board announced that it will hold a public hearing March 22 “to explore the impact of the Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. acquisition of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. on certain costing determinations.” The board will look at the effect of the $43 billion purchase price on its annual Uniform Rail Costing System (URCS) and revenue-adequacy findings for BNSF.

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