UP, NS ink deal on chemical traffic

November 2, 2009

The Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern railroads announced a new service to transport chemical shipments linking UP-served regions in southern Texas and Louisiana with Northeast and Southeast U.S. destinations served by Norfolk Southern, the two railroads said last week.

The service, called Gulf Coast Flyer, "promotes expedited service for (chemical) customers between the Gulf Coast region and major markets across the Northeast and Southeast," the railroads said in a joint statement. Eastbound and westbound shipments between the two railroads connect at gateways in Salem, Ill., and New Orleans, they said.

The railroads said that from 2006 through 2008, they invested $740 million in terminals, main lines, bridges, and sidings along Gulf Coast traffic lanes. They said the improvements have improved transit times by 20 percent on those lanes.

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KEYWORDS Norfolk Southern Union Pacific

Mark Solomon joined DC VELOCITY as senior editor in August 2008, and was promoted to his current position on January 1, 2015. He has spent more than 30 years in the transportation, logistics and supply chain management fields as a journalist and public relations professional. From 1989 to 1994, he worked in Washington as a reporter for the Journal of Commerce, covering the aviation and trucking industries, the Department of Transportation, Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to that, he worked for Traffic World for seven years in a similar role. From 1994 to 2008, Mr. Solomon ran Media-Based Solutions, a public relations firm based in Atlanta. He graduated in 1978 with a B.A. in journalism from The American University in Washington, D.C.

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