Fifteen customers and suppliers
honored for their efforts to further energy efficiency,
innovation, and environmental stewardship
ATLANTA, Dec. 1, 2022
/PRNewswire/ -- Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) today
announced the recipients of its inaugural Thoroughbred
Sustainability Partner Awards. The awards recognize Norfolk
Southern partner companies who are leaders in the categories of
Energy Efficiency, Innovation, and Environmental Stewardship. The
fifteen Thoroughbred Sustainability Partner Awards winners are:
Energy
Efficiency
|
Innovation
|
Environmental
Stewardship
|
Honoring
corporate programs
that achieve
significant energy
efficiency savings.
|
Recognizing
innovations that
have significantly
contributed
to a more
sustainable future.
|
Celebrating efforts
that
promote stewardship
of the
environment.
|
|
|
|
Ford Motor
Company
|
Georgia Ports
Authority
|
NARSTCO
|
J.B. Hunt
Transport
|
Loram Maintenance of
Way
|
Outokumpu
|
Marathon
Petroleum
|
The Port of
Virginia
|
Paper
Transport
|
Schneider
National
|
UPS
|
Progress
Rail
|
|
Wabtec
|
Subaru
|
|
|
TRAC
Intermodal
|
"Sustainability is embedded in every facet of our organization,
including helping our customers reduce their supply chain
emissions," said Norfolk Southern Chief Sustainability Officer
Josh Raglin. "The more we
encourage and recognize our stakeholders for their collaboration
with partners, the quicker we will all achieve measurable progress
toward our shared sustainability goals. We recognize and honor
these partners for their leadership with the inaugural Thoroughbred
Sustainability Partner Awards."
A cross-department team from Norfolk Southern reviewed
applications for their measurable progress during 2021. Winners
were selected based on their program's novelty, relevance, and
impact. The award recipients collectively demonstrated outstanding
achievements toward energy efficiency, innovation, and
environmental stewardship. Achievements by the honorees
included:
- Diverting 17 million pounds of waste from landfills
- Avoiding more than 500,000 metric tons of carbon emissions
- Eliminating 5.2 million miles of diesel fuel burn annually
- Achieving a 30% reduction in fuel consumption, saving 225,000
gallons annually
- Removing abandoned fishing nets and lines in the ocean and
converting them to auto parts, mitigating some of the estimated
700,000 tons of fishing gear discarded annually
Norfolk Southern will honor these winners at a ceremony at its
headquarters in Atlanta in
January 2023. The event will also
mark the first meeting of Norfolk Southern's Partner Council.
Membership of the council is comprised of these award winners, and
Norfolk Southern will facilitate periodic engagements to further
sustainability efforts, share initiatives, and learn from one
another in a collaborative environment.
About Norfolk Southern
Since 1827, Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) and its
predecessor companies have safely moved the goods and materials
that drive the U.S. economy. Today, it operates a customer-centric
and operations-driven freight transportation network. Committed to
furthering sustainability, Norfolk Southern helps its customers
avoid 15 million tons of yearly carbon emissions by shipping via
rail. Its dedicated team members deliver more than 7 million
carloads annually, from agriculture to consumer goods, and is the
largest rail shipper of auto products and metals in North America. Norfolk Southern also has the
most extensive intermodal network in the eastern U.S., serving a
majority of the country's population and manufacturing base, with
connections to every major container port on the Atlantic coast as
well as the Gulf of Mexico and
Great Lakes. Learn more by visiting www.NorfolkSouthern.com.
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