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News ReleaseBNSF Details Fuel-Surcharge Plan For Coal, Agricultural ProductsFORT WORTH, Texas, October 20, 2005:BNSF Railway Company today announced that its mileage-based fuel surcharge program will take effect for Coal and Agricultural Products customers Jan. 1, 2006, as scheduled. An effective date for the mileage-based program for intermodal, automotive and other carload customers will be announced later. "Customer feedback indicated that while a mileage-based fuel surcharge program is considered more fair and equitable than the current percentage-based program, some customers need more time to make adjustments to their own information systems to accommodate the new program," said John Lanigan, BNSF’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer. BNSF is making and testing the changes to its information systems required to implement the mileage-based fuel surcharge program, and expects to complete that process later this year. Intermodal, automotive and carload customers other than Coal and Agricultural Products customers will continue to pay a fuel surcharge based on percentage of their freight transportation bills. "As announced earlier this year, non-Rule 11 interline shipments also will continue to use the percentage-based fuel surcharge," Lanigan said. "Currently, the system used by the rail industry to electronically exchange interline billing and settlement information cannot accommodate a mileage-based fuel surcharge." For Agricultural Products customers, the mileage-based fuel surcharge will reflect rail mileage between origin and destination points according to BNSF’s on-line rail mileage inquiry tool at http://www.bnsf.com/bnsf.was5/RailMiles/RMCentralController, instead of highway mileage as originally announced. For Coal unit-train customers, the mileage-based fuel surcharge will be based on rail mileage between origin and destination points, as originally announced. Other aspects of the mileage-based fuel surcharge program, the rail industry’s first, remain unchanged. More information about BNSF’s fuel-surcharge programs and tables for both mileage- and percentage-based programs are available at http://www.bnsf.com/tools/prices/fuelsurcharge/index.html. A subsidiary of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (NYSE:BNI), BNSF Railway operates one of the largest railroad networks in North America, with about 32,000 route miles in 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 low-sulphur coal to generate about ten percent of the electricity produced in the United States. BNSF Railway is an industry leader in Web-enabling a variety of customer transactions at www.bnsf.com. BNSF Headquarters |
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