Leading by Example: Sustainability Works at Norfolk Southern
- 9 years ago
As a freight rail company that provides transportation services across 22 eastern U.S. states, with links to the global marketplace, Norfolk Southern is uniquely positioned to contribute to reducing the nation’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
The environmental advantages of moving consumer goods and other products by rail are well documented in terms of fuel efficiencies and emissions reduction. Through investments and partnerships, Norfolk Southern strives to continuously improve on those supply chain efficiencies, which helps our customers shrink their own emissions footprints.
Fuel efficiency — and, more broadly, energy efficiency — is a core sustainability issue for Norfolk Southern. Our diesel locomotive fleet accounts for about 90 percent of the railroad’s annual GHG emissions, and the fuel bill is one of our largest operating expenses. We are fully engaged in reducing those environmental impacts and costs. For example, over four years starting in 2010, we reduced our GHG emissions intensity by nearly 8 percent per revenue ton-mile of freight moved, even as business volumes grew.
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The environmental advantages of moving consumer goods and other products by rail are well documented in terms of fuel efficiencies and emissions reduction. Through investments and partnerships, Norfolk Southern strives to continuously improve on those supply chain efficiencies, which helps our customers shrink their own emissions footprints.
Fuel efficiency — and, more broadly, energy efficiency — is a core sustainability issue for Norfolk Southern. Our diesel locomotive fleet accounts for about 90 percent of the railroad’s annual GHG emissions, and the fuel bill is one of our largest operating expenses. We are fully engaged in reducing those environmental impacts and costs. For example, over four years starting in 2010, we reduced our GHG emissions intensity by nearly 8 percent per revenue ton-mile of freight moved, even as business volumes grew.
Read more: http://bit.ly/1HoohWs
© 2015 | 3BL Media/Norfolk Southern Corp | All Rights Reserved