National Gateway Creates Long-Term Environmental Benefits

National Gateway Creates Long-Term Environmental Benefits:

"The National Gateway, a multi-state public-private partnership seeking to create a state-of-the-art freight rail route between Mid-Atlantic ports and Midwestern markets, is poised to create significant environmental benefits including lower emissions and reduced fuel consumption.

"By clearing existing rail routes for double-stack freight trains, the National Gateway will convert over 14 billion highway miles to rail and enable shippers to better utilize the environmental advantages of rail transportation, reducing CO2 emissions by almost 20 million tons and fuel consumption by nearly 2 billion gallons."

National Gateway Honored as 'Competitiveness Project of the Year'

National Gateway Honored as 'Competitiveness Project of the Year':

"WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Gateway coalition today announced that it has been honored as 'Competitiveness Project of the Year' by the North American Strategic Infrastructure Leadership Forum, a leading infrastructure identification and development group.

The award recognizes the National Gateway as the 'project which contributes most to the [North American] region's capacity for global competitiveness.'

The National Gateway is an $842 million, multi-state public-private infrastructure initiative which will create a more efficient freight rail route between Mid-Atlantic ports and Midwestern markets. This is achieved by raising bridges, increasing tunnel clearances and building terminals along an existing rail corridor to support the movement of double-stacked containers on rail cars."

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Groundbreaking for New CSX Ohio Intermodal Terminal

Ohio Governor Strickland, Congressman Latta, and CSX Chairman Ward Break Ground for Northwest Ohio Intermodal Terminal

"NORTH BALTIMORE, Ohio, Aug. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, Congressman Bob Latta and CSX Chairman, President and CEO Michael Ward today broke ground for a new intermodal terminal in North Baltimore, Ohio, which will support the efficient and environmentally beneficial movement of containers between rail and truck.

"The new Northwest Ohio Intermodal Terminal will employ more than 200 people when fully operational in 2011 with 400 more jobs to be created during the construction phase. Over the next 10 years, more than 2,600 direct and indirect jobs will be created as a result of the facility. The terminal will serve as the distribution hub for anything that can be bought at a retailer -- from household electronic equipment to clothing. The facility is the cornerstone of the National Gateway, a $840 million, multi-state infrastructure initiative aimed at creating an efficient and environmentally friendly freight link between the Mid-Atlantic ports and the Midwest."