Rail News Home Kansas City Southern 3/14/2022 Rail News: Kansas City Southern
Kansas City Southern last week pledged $500,000 to the American Red Cross to support its global response to the Ukraine humanitarian crisis.KCS will also match employees' contributions to the American Red Cross for this effort, company officials said in a press release."The entire world sees the escalating humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and we want to support the international effort to provide relief," said KCS President and CEO Patrick Ottensmeyer. "I encourage all of our employees, vendors, suppliers, customers and others across the world to join in these relief efforts.”The American Red Cross has deployed international crisis responders to Poland, Moldova, Hungary and Romania to provide humanitarian relief in support of the international Red Cross operation helping families who fled their homes. The trained crisis responders support on-the-ground relief efforts alongside local teams, including the Polish Red Cross and Moldovan Red Cross.
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Rail News Home Norfolk Southern Railway 3/14/2022 Rail News: Norfolk Southern Railway
The new calculator enhances the accuracy of carbon estimates by capturing the entire cycle of fuel usage. Photo – nscorp.com
The new calculator enhances the accuracy of carbon estimates by capturing the entire cycle of fuel usage. Photo – nscorp.com
Norfolk Southern Railway today announced the launch of a next-generation carbon calculator for customers to measure carbon emissions in their supply chain decisions.
The calculator enhances the accuracy of carbon estimates by capturing the entire cycle of fuel usage, NS officials said in a press release. Direct fuel consumption from locomotives is applied to every rail car based on weight and distance traveled, and additional fuel accounted for includes yard and local operations, equipment repositioning and fuel expended while handling containers in intermodal operations. The tool generates a rail fuel efficiency factor for 18 rail-car types and 30 commodities.