Burlington North Corporation Santa Fe (BNSF), included 16 December 1994, is a holding company. Company, through its branches, is engaged primarily in the freight business of railroad transportation. BNSF Railroad Company (BNSF railway) is the main operating branch of the Company. BNSF railway operates various services and equipment, to support his transportation system, including its infrastructure and locomotives and freight cars. It also owns or leases other equipment, to support rail operations, including containers, chassis and vehicles. Support services for rail operations include yards and terminals throughout its rail network, locomotive system stores, to perform locomotive maintenance and service, centralized Network Operations Center for train dispatch and network operations control and management in Fort Worth, Texas, regional parcel centers, Computers, telecommunication equipment, signal systems and other support systems.
The BNSF Railroad operates one of the railroad networks in North America since approximately 32 000 trail route miles, excluding multiple head tracks, yard tracks and sidings, approximately 23 000 miles, of which owned route miles, including amenities, in 28 states and two Canadian regions on 31 December 2008. Approximately 9 000 BNSF Railroad system route miles consist of trackage rights, which authorize the BNSF Railroad to operate its trains with its crews in the footsteps of other railways. On 31 December 2008, complete BNSF Railroad system, including single and multiple top tracks, yard tracks and sidings, consisted of approximately 50 000 miles, которыми управляют, trace, all of which are owned or held under the convenience of the BNSF Railroad except for approximately 10 000 route miles, run under trackage rights. 31 December 2008, approximately 26 000 BNSF Railroad track miles consisted of 112 pounds per yard or heavier rail, including approximately 20 000 131-pound trail miles per yard or heavier rail.
Consumer goods
The Consumer Goods Freight business provided approximately 34 % freight income during the year, completed 31 December 2008, and consisted of business sectors, such as International Transport, Domestic Multimodal and Road. International business primarily consists of container traffic from shipping companies, such as Hyundai Merchant Marine Co., Ltd., Young Ming Group and orients Overseas Container Line. International Associated with the use of various modes of transport was approximately 45 % total income of Consumer goods in 2008.
Domestic Transport related, produced approximately 47 % total income of Consumer Goods. Transport related Domestic staff includes business areas, such as loaded truck trading companies / transport-related trading companies and expedited truckload / less-than-truckload. Truckload business area includes full truckload carriers, such as J.B. Transporting the Hunt, Schneider National and Fast Transport. The multi-mode business area of Trading Companies includes Shippers Agents and Seals, such as the Center Group. Expedited truckload / less-than-truckload business area includes less-truckload carriers and package carriers, such as United Package Service and YRC Worldwide. This also includes expedited truck loaded airlines, such as Werner Companies, Stevens Transportation and American Xpress Enterprises.
The automotive business sector includes the transportation of both assembled motor vehicles and shipments of vehicle parts to numerous destinations throughout the Midwest., Southwest, West and Pacific Northwest. This produced approximately 8 % total income of Consumer goods.
Industrial Products
The Industrial Products cargo business provided approximately 23 % BNSF's Freight Revenues 2008, and consisted of five business areas: Building Products, Building Products, Petroleum products, chemicals and plastics products, and food and drink. The construction product sector represented approximately 36 % total Industrial income of Products in 2008. This sector serves all commodities, included in or resulting from steel production along with mineral commodities, such as clay, sands, cements, the aggregate, sodium compounds and other industrial minerals. Industrial taconite, iron ore derivative, produced in northern Minnesota, steel and coal coke waste – BNSF primary input transported products. Finished steel products range from structural beams and steel coils, to wire and nails. BNSF Links Integrated Steel Mills in the East with Producers in the West and Southwest. The service was also provided to various mini-factories in the Southwest, which produce rebar, beams and coiled rods for the construction industry. Industrial minerals include a variety of mined and processed commodities, such as cement and aggregates (construction sand, gravel and crushed stone). Borates and clays move to inland points, as well as to foreign markets primarily through the ports of the West Coast. Sodium compounds, primarily ash soda, moved to domestic markets for use in the production of glass and other industrial products.
The construction products sector produced approximately 29 % total Industrial income of Products in 2008, and included commodities of the virgin forest product, such as wood, plywood, board-oriented, particleboard, paper products, pulpmill raw materials for industry, wood pulp and sawlogs. Also included in this sector is the government, car and unnecessary movement. Commodities from this group primarily originate from the Pacific Northwest, Western Canada, the Upper Midwest and Southeast for shipment mainly to domestic markets. Industries submitted include construction, furniture, a photograph, Publication, newspaper and industrial packaging. Waste shipments, ranging from municipal waste to contaminated soil, transported to landfills and recovery centers across the United States. Government and machine business includes aircraft parts, agricultural and construction machine, military equipment and large industrial machine.
The refined products group produced approximately 17 % total Industrial income of Products in 2008. Consumables, included in the oil sector, are liquefied gas (LPG), diesel fuels, asphalt, Alcohol, solvents, petroleum coke, machine oils, Oils, waxes and carbon black. Product use varies based on product and includes the use of LPG for heating purposes, diesel fuel and engine oils, to drive heavy machine and asphalt for road projects and roofing. Products within this group originate and end throughout the BNSF network, with the largest areas of action, which are the Gulf of Texas, Pacific Northwest, California, Montana and Illinois.
The chemicals and plastics sector represented approximately 13 % total revenue for Industrial Products in 2008. This group includes industrial chemicals and plastics commodities. These commodities include caustic soda, chlorine, industrial gases, Acid, polyethylene, polypropylene and polyvinyl chloride. Industrial chemicals and plastics resins are used by automotive, housing and packaging industries, as well as for raw materials for industry, to produce other chemical and plastic products. These commodities originate primarily in the Gulf Coast area for shipment mainly to domestic markets.
Food and Drinks represented approximately 8 % total revenue for Industrial Products in 2008. This group consists of drinks, canned food and items of perishable food. Other consumer goods, such as cotton, salt, rubber and tires, and miscellaneous boxcar shipments are also included in this business area.
Coal
IN 2008, coal transportation contributed approximately 23 % freight income. BNSF – one of the transporters of low sulfur coal in the United States. More than 90 % of coal tonnes of all BNSF come from the Wyoming and Montana Powder Basin. These coal shipments were destined for coal-fired power plants., located primarily in the Central North, Central South, Southeast, Mountain and Pacific Northwest regions of the United States. BNSF also transports coal from the Powder River Basin to markets in Canada, Eastern and Asian markets of the United States. Other BNSF coal shipments originate primarily in Colorado, New Mexico and North Dakota. These shipments move to power plants and industries in the Gore and North Central regions of the United States and to Mexico..
Agricultural products
Transportation of Agricultural Products provided approximately 20 % freight income in 2008. These foods include wheat, grain, stack products, slaughter, oil seeds and meals, feed, barley, oats and rye, flour and grind products, milo, Oil, specialty grains, malt, ethanol and fertilizer. The company develops and operates a shuttle network for grain and grain products. In addition to serving the grain-producing areas, the BNSF serves as a terminal, storage, feeding and food processing locations. Besides, BNSF has access to overseas markets in the Pacific Northwest, Western Great Lakes, Gulf of Texas and Mexico.
Company competes with Union Pacific Railroad Company.
