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News ReleaseBNSF Honors 74 Shippers for Safe Transport of Hazardous Materials At Eleventh Annual Product Stewardship Awards EventFORT WORTH, Texas, April 9, 2007:BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) today honored 74 shippers with BNSF’s Annual Product Stewardship Award for the safe transportation of hazardous materials by rail during 2007. Two companies, BP Products North America Inc. and Olin Corporation Chlor Alkali Division, have won the award every year since the awards were first given in 1997. These 74 award-winning companies have successfully implemented the ethics of Product Stewardship under the American Chemistry Council’s Responsible Care® initiative. Last year, BNSF presented 60 customers with its Stewardship Award. “BNSF is pleased that the number of customers who receive its Stewardship Award has grown throughout the years. This clearly demonstrates the industry’s focus and commitment to the safe transportation of hazardous materials,” Katie Farmer, BNSF vice president, Industrial Products Sales, said at a special presentation at BNSF’s corporate headquarters in Fort Worth this morning. “The product stewardship from these 74 customers helps support the safety of our employees, the communities we serve and the environment.” Implemented in 1997, BNSF’s Product Stewardship Award is presented to shippers who transported a minimum of 500 loaded tank cars of hazardous materials during the past year with zero non-accident releases (NARs) (releases that are not caused by a derailment or collision) during the entire transportation cycle. The honorees for 2007 are:
About BNSF’s Environmental Efforts BNSF Railway’s comprehensive approach to environmental stewardship promotes sustainability in the communities it serves today, and gives future generations a cleaner road ahead. Rail is the most fuel efficient mode of surface transportation, moving a ton of freight more than 400 miles on a single gallon of diesel fuel. As the rail industry’s intermodal leader, BNSF also leads in environmental stewardship. Each BNSF intermodal train moves takes more than 280 long-haul trucks off the nation’s crowded highways. About BNSF Railway A subsidiary of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (NYSE:BNI), BNSF Railway Company operates one of the largest North American rail networks, with about 32,000 route miles in 28 states and two Canadian provinces. BNSF is among the world's top transporters of intermodal traffic, moves more grain than any other American railroad, carries the components of many of the products we depend on daily, and hauls enough low-sulfur coal to generate about ten percent of the electricity produced in the United States. BNSF is an industry leader in Web-enabling a variety of customer transactions at www.bnsf.com. BNSF Headquarters |
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