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News ReleaseBNSF Honors 56 Safe Shippers of Hazardous Materials At Seventh Annual Product Stewardship Awards ProgramFORT WORTH, Texas, April 15, 2004:The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) today honored 56 recipients with the company's Annual Product Stewardship Award. This award recognizes shippers for their safe transportation of hazardous materials by rail and supports the American Chemistry Council’s Responsible CareÒ Initiative. The 56 award-winning companies that successfully implemented the ethics of Product Stewardship under Responsible CareÒ were recognized this morning during a special presentation at BNSF's corporate headquarters in Fort Worth. Six companies - Akzo Nobel Chemicals, Inc; BP Chemicals; Eka Chemicals, Inc.; Husky Energy; Nexen Chemicals; and Olin Corporation, Chlor Alkali Division - have won the honor each of the last seven years. "These awards reflect our customers continued focus and commitment to the safe transportation of hazardous materials over the past seven years," said George Duggan, vice president, Industrial Product Sales, BNSF. "Their product stewardship ensures the safety of our employees, the public and the environment." The Product Stewardship Award is presented to shippers who successfully transported a minimum of 500 loaded tankcars of hazardous materials during the 2003 calendar year and who worked with their customers to ensure no non-accident releases (NARs) occurred during the entire transportation cycle. This is the seventh consecutive year that BNSF has given these awards. The honorees are:
A subsidiary of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (NYSE:BNI), BNSF operates one of the largest railroad networks in North America, with about 32,500 route miles covering 28 states and two Canadian provinces. The railway is among the world's top transporters of intermodal traffic, moves more grain than any other American railroad, transports the components of many of the products we depend on daily, and hauls enough coal to generate about ten percent of the electricity produced in the United States. BNSF is an industry leader in Web-enabling a variety of customer transactions at www.bnsf.com. For more information on the company and its transportation solutions, visit the BNSF Web site at www.bnsf.com BNSF Headquarters |
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