NORFOLK, Va. — Twenty-nine customers earned the Thoroughbred Chemical Safety Award for safe handling of hazardous chemicals on the Norfolk Southern transportation network in 2001, according to a press release issued by the railroad.
The customers qualified for the award by shipping more than 1,000 carloads of hazardous chemicals with Norfolk Southern during the year without causing a single release of product. Together, they accounted for the safe delivery of more than 108,000 carloads of chemicals without incident.
“In the six years Norfolk Southern has recognized our safest chemical customers, the Thoroughbred Chemical Safety Award has celebrated the successful partnership of the transportation and chemical industries working together to achieve mutually rewarding safety goals,” said David R. Goode, NS chairman, president and chief executive officer. “Our people, the communities where we do business, our customers and our investors all benefit from continuous dedication to safety. I applaud these companies and plants that have set the standard by transporting chemicals with zero incidents.”
The 2001 winners are AKZO Nobel Chemicals Inc.; the Archer Daniels Midland Company plant at Peoria, Ill.; BP Chemical; BP Products North America; Citgo Asphalt Refining Co.; The Dow Chemical Company; the DuPont Corp. plant at Belle, W.Va.; Eaglebrook Inc.; Enterprise Products Company; ExxonMobil Chemical Company; Finnchem USA Inc.; Honeywell International Inc.; Huntsman Corporation; Koch Industries; Koppers Industries Inc.; Lyondell Chemical Company; Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC; Motiva Enterprises LLC; NOVA Chemicals Inc.; the Occidental Chemical Corporation plant at Evans City, Ala.; the Olin Corporation plant at Nixon, Ga.; the PCS Phosphate plants at Lee Creek, N.C., and Occidental, Fla.; Rhodia Inc.; Shell Chemical Company; Sunbelt Chlor Alkali Partnership; the Sunoco Chemicals Inc. plants at Frankford, Pa., and Haverhill and Toledo, Ohio; Tosco Refining Company; Valero Marketing & Supply Company; and Young Refining Corporation.
Norfolk Southern Corporation is a Virginia-based holding company with headquarters in Norfolk. It owns a major freight railroad, Norfolk Southern Railway Company, which operates approximately 21,500 miles of road in 22 states, the District of Columbia and the province of Ontario.