28.02.2020
Artikel Nummer: 30949
US class I railroad welcomes several new facilities
In the USA, BNSF Railway reports that investments from customers served by the freight rail provider totalled USD 1.2 billion in 2019. This marks the ninth consecutive year that BNSF customers and local economic development organisations have invested more than USD 1 billion in a calendar year for new or expanded facilities.
In 2019, new developments supported a wide variety of commodities including consumer, agricultural and industrial products in more than 100 communities across the BNSF network and created more than 2,000 new jobs. The projects include a new distribution centre in Kansas Citiy, a new plant in Arizona to create boxes for agriculture products as well as a soybean processing location in South Dakota. (ben)