MONTREAL — Canadian National announced that 114 industrial facilities won its coveted Safe Handling Award for 2001. Seventy-two of these facilities are located in Canada and 42 in the United States. The number of winners in 2001 was up 28 per cent from 2000, when there were 83 winners, a CN press release reports.
Now in their tenth year, the Safe Handling Awards are presented to CN customers who ship 100 or more tank cars loaded with dangerous goods annually and meet safe handling objectives.
“Interest in our Safe Handling Awards has grown steadily over the past 10 years, and the increasing number of winners proves this,” says Jean-Jacques Ruest, vice-president, chemicals and petroleum. “Our customers are increasingly aware of the importance of safe handling for the dangerous goods we transport for them. Working closely with CN personnel, they too, are making safety the top priority.”
The Safe Handling Awards complement a series of initiatives aimed at making CN the safest railway in North America. The awards are also an integral part of the Responsible Care® program – a performance improvement initiative of the chemical industry. Responsible Care® is CN’s long-term commitment to continuously improving safety, while protecting the environment in the communities it serves.
Highlighting their continuous efforts, three facilities received special recognition for having earned CN’s Safe Handling Award 10 years in a row, since the awards began: PIONEER (Dalhousie, New Brunswick), Enersul/Chevron (Benbow, Alta.) and BP Canada (Elspeth, Alta.).
CN also presents Corporate Safe Handling Awards to companies that exceed 5,000 carloads of dangerous goods shipped and that meet Safe Handling Awards criteria. In 2001, these awards were presented to BASF Corporation, BP Canada Energy Co., Chemtrade Logistics Inc., Dow Chemicals, Norfalco Sales Inc., PIONEER, Ultramar Ltd. and Williams Energy Services.
Canadian National Railway Company spans Canada and mid-America, from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to the Gulf of Mexico, serving the ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert, B.C., Montreal, Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the key cities of Toronto, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Duluth, Minn./Superior, Wis., Green Bay, Wis., Minneapolis/St. Paul, Memphis, St. Louis, Jackson, Miss., with connections to all points in North America.