15.02.2021
Artikel Nummer: 35211
More than 1,700 new jobs
BNSF Railway’s customers invested USD 1.1 billion in 2020. BNSF expects these investments to create more than 1,700 new jobs in local communities.
This marks the 10th consecutive year that BNSF customers have invested more than USD 1 billion in a calendar year for new or expanded facilities, the US class I railways said.
In 2020, new developments supported a wide variety of commodities across the BNSF network. Large investments including, inter alia, Coldpoint Logistics (providing additional space at BNSF’s Logistics Park Kansas City), Delta Peanut (adding two tracks to the facility for shipping outbound peanuts in Jonesboro, Arkansas) as well as Ingredion (created 50 new roles in South Sioux City, NE). (ben)