With over a century of experience, ABF Freight, an ArcBest® Company, is one of the nation’s largest, most trusted LTL carriers. For more than 40 years, ABF has partnered with BNSF to provide intermodal shipping solutions, using stackable containers, wheeled vans and pup trailers to ship its customers' freight and help improve transportation efficiency and reduce emissions output. Through this partnership, ABF Freight has added 500 stackable rail containers to its overall operations since 2019 and, most recently, increased the use of stackable rail containers from 39.5% in 2023 to 49.3% in the first half of 2024 — a 9.8% uptick in moving more freight at once without as many emissions. ABF Freight has also made strategic investments in electric vehicles (straight trucks and yard tractors), the ABF fleet (road tractors average two years and city tractors average seven years), its innovative technology City Route Optimization, and other sustainable initiatives, which resulted in avoiding 5,082 tons of CO2e emissions in 2023.

Buzzi Unicem USA is a leading cement manufacturer in the United States, with seven cement plants having a production capacity of approximately 9 million metric tons. The organization’s recent focus involves initiatives to reduce their CO2 emissions. Through this process, Buzzi Unicem USA has partnered with and utilized BNSF to transport waste as an alternative fuel source. In recent years, Buzzi Unicem USA has increased these shipments to become a larger portion of their fuel source.

C.H. Robinson leveraged BNSF to advance sustainability efforts alongside a leading apparel retail customer, with initial results showing an estimated 2,090 tCO2e will be reduced over the course of a year. The project was expected to achieve a balancing act of adapting products’ speed-to-market and improving supply chain resiliency overall - identifying BNSF was a core part of achieving these goals. Early data points indicate that the project is achieving these targets as well as reducing costs and emissions to create long-term value.

COSCO SHIPPING Lines has partnered with BNSF Railway to provide industry-leading intermodal services across North America, with a strong focus on sustainability. The company has invested in eco-friendly, dual-fuel mega vessels and integrated energy-efficient technologies and practices throughout its supply chain to uphold environmental responsibility. Aligned with its commitment to sustainability, COSCO SHIPPING Lines engages in a range of environmental initiatives across North America, including vessel speed reduction, the implementation of shore power, and optimizing transportation routes. These efforts are designed to improve operational efficiency while significantly reducing carbon emissions. Together, COSCO SHIPPING Lines and BNSF Railway are improving the fluidity of global trade, leveraging eco-friendly rail solutions, and reinforcing joint commitment to a sustainable future.

A pioneer in circularity, Darling Ingredients (NYSE: DAR) is a global leader in repurposing and recycling materials from the animal agriculture and food industries – transforming them into essential ingredients that do everything from nourishing people and feeding animals to fertilizing crops and fueling planes, trains and trucks with renewable fuel. The company processes 15% of the world’s animal agricultural by-products, produces about 30% of the world’s gelatin and collagen, and is one of the largest producers of renewable energy through its 50/50 joint venture Diamond Green Diesel. With over 260 facilities in more than 15 countries, a strong transportation supply chain is critical to successful operations. Darling Ingredients relies on proven rail transportation providers, like BNSF, to deliver products as efficiently and sustainably as possible.

In 2023, The DeLong Co. secured a $40 million USDA climate-smart grant, aimed at incentivizing sustainable agricultural practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote carbon sequestration. DeLong’s Grown Climate Smart program incentivizes farmers to adopt or continue climate-smart practices such as cover cropping, reduced or no-till cultivation, nutrient management plans and windbreak establishment or renovations. In the first year of the program, over 131,000 unique acres of farmland were enrolled doing on average two climate-smart practices per acre. In addition to GCS, The DeLong Co., Inc. enrolls growers in the ISCC (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification) program, as well as the FSA (Farm Sustainability Assessment) system. BNSF and The DeLong Co., Inc. Export Division also work in partnership to create a streamlined and sustainable export supply chain that focuses on import container match back, promoting efficient and responsible asset utilization.

Diamond Green Diesel (DGD) is a joint venture between Valero Energy Corporation and Darling Ingredients. This joint venture allows these two experts in their respective fields to capitalize on Darling procuring advantaged primarily waste feedstocks in the marketplace and leveraging Valero’s refining expertise to convert them into renewable fuels for low-carbon markets. DGD owns two renewable diesel locations in Louisiana and Texas. DGD is North America’s largest renewable diesel producer and the second largest globally, with production capacity of 1.2 billion gallons annually. Both DGD locations have significant infrastructure to receive feedstocks by rail and deliver them to renewable fuel markets via rail. Specifically, DGD worked with BNSF at Port Arthur, Texas, to develop manifest service.

EMR is a local metal recycling company that recycles metal of all grades from cars to cables, aluminum to zinc. EMR has built the world’s first zero emissions air and water shredding facility in Becker, Minnesota. Totally enclosed and kept at negative air pressure, the facility keeps pollution inside and ensures runoff from the site does not leak into the local water table. It also runs on 100% renewable energy and sets a new standard for sustainable metal recycling globally. Of the tons sold and shipped from this facility, 84% of materials are shipped via rail, which is the most fuel-efficient method to move freight over land.

Estes is working to reduce its carbon footprint, gain efficiencies and improve service. One way they’re doing this is by partnering with BNSF to find creative solutions that add value to Estes’ top national LTL service and allow for more efficient utilization of its systems, schedules and route optimization. Currently, Estes operates nearly 1,500 containers daily, including several new 53-foot domestic containers dedicated to more over-the-road shipments on rail. Along with increasing rail capacity, a few of Estes’ additional sustainability initiatives include solar power installations at many of its terminals, fleet upgrades with electric- and compressed natural gas (CNG)-powered vehicles, optimizing fuel efficiency through better load and route planning as well as a driver efficiency score program, plus the implementation of paperless operations processes.

HF Sinclair has demonstrated its commitment to renewable energy and has become a leader in the renewable energy space over the last few years by engaging in investments to convert or co-locate renewable production facilities within its energy network. In 2022, HF Sinclair accelerated its sustainability journey by opening the Cheyenne, WY renewables refinery, acquiring the Sinclair, WY renewables refinery and opening the Artesia, NM renewable refinery and Pre-Treatment Unit (PTU). These three sites have an annual capacity of 380 million gallons of renewable diesel, making HF Sinclair one of North America's largest renewable diesel producers. HF Sinclair has shipped feedstocks and renewable products via BNSF into each of the organization’s three renewable refineries, which has required significant plant development and rail infrastructure development. HF Sinclair has a target of reducing Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions intensity from its operations by 25% by 2030 compared to a 2020 baseline, and these renewable production facilities strengthen its ability to reach these targets.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation is an American multinational consumer goods and personal care corporation that produces mostly paper-based consumer products. Kimberly-Clark has built strong ties with BNSF’s intermodal team as a BCO for more than 20 years. In addition to business development, the partnership includes several projects with BNSF’s Load and Ride Solutions (LARS) Team on load securement solutions. Working with partner carriers and rail providers such as BNSF, Kimberly-Clark has grown the Intermodal share of its North American truckload volume to 20%, which represents 40% of truckload miles. As a result, since joining the U.S. EPA’s SmartWay program in 2006, Kimberly-Clark has received SmartWay Excellence Award recognition 12 times (the last nine consecutive) for being among the top 2% of all SmartWay shippers.

The Nelson & Fort Sheppard Transload receives spent automotive batteries by rail into their facility in British Columbia, Canada, and then transload those batteries from railcar to truck. The batteries are sent to a nearby recycler to separate the lead, acid and plastics. After further refinement at a smelter in the area, lead is then sent back to The Nelson & Fort Sheppard Transload to be loaded onto railcars (even trying to use the same railcars that brought the used batteries) and send it to be repurposed into new automotive batteries. NFTS and its recycling partners are currently developing a method to transload and transport used battery plastics to various rail-served locations for reuse in new automotive batteries. NFTS is continuously ramping up volumes for inbound battery cars and outbound lead cars to facilitate an extremely efficient and important recycle supply chain.

OOCL is a long-term partner of BNSF, dedicated to providing world-class services to customers in North America. The company’s commitment to the environment has driven efforts to reduce supply chain emissions over the years. This includes investing in eco-friendly and dual-fuel vessels, advancing low-carbon shipping by opting for cleaner fuels like biofuel, and utilizing advanced technology to enhance operations and increase energy efficiency. In North America, the company has also promoted key initiatives, including optimizing routes to utilize more rail transportation, enhancing equipment positioning, reducing truck legs, and preventing wasteful bare table positioning while collaborating with the green terminal LBCT. OOCL looks forward to further extending long-lasting sustainability collaborations with BNSF and all other partners and stakeholders to reduce emissions along the supply chain and create a greener future together.

RPMG is an ethanol marketing company founded in 1996 in Minnesota by two ethanol producing plants looking to find increased efficiencies and scale through joint efforts. RPMG currently and consistently provides professional and sustainable market solutions for the 20 ethanol plants (2 billion annual gallons) they serve in delivering solutions for ethanol, dried distillers grain and distillers corn oil. RPMG has also been a leader in supporting the next evolution in ethanol within the renewable energy space through the carbon sequestration initiatives occurring in the market and thought leadership around use for ethanol as a next generation feedstock for Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production. RPMG is one of BNSF’s largest ethanol shippers and partners with BNSF to provide clean energy across multiple destinations on BNSF.

Valero, a Fortune 500 multinational manufacturer of petroleum and low-carbon fuels, has invested over $5.4 billion in low-carbon initiatives since 2009. It is now the second-largest corn ethanol producer globally, operating 12 plants in the U.S. Midwest with an annual capacity of 1.6 billion gallons. Valero’s ethanol plants ship ethanol on railcars across the BNSF network. Valero is also the world’s second largest producer of renewable diesel (with an annual capacity of 1.2 billion gallon), which is primarily made of waste feedstocks and offers significantly lower lifecycle GHG emissions, compared with traditional diesel. BNSF and Valero have worked together to develop multiple destination locations for renewable diesel in low-carbon markets. The company is also expanding into large-scale Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production and successfully completed the SAF project at the DGD Port Arthur Plant in October of 2024. The project is expected to be fully operational by the end of 2024, providing the plant the optionality to upgrade approximately 50 percent of its current 470 million gallon renewable diesel annual production capacity to SAF.

Vestas launched its sustainability strategy in 2020, which includes becoming a carbon neutral company and producing zero waste turbines. As a result, Vestas has consistently been awarded and recognized as a leader in the U.S. clean energy transition. BNSF has been a trusted rail transportation provider for Vestas in North America for decades, delivering large-scale wind turbines components safely and efficiently across the country, while minimizing environmental impacts on local communities. BNSF first transported Vestas’ 39-meter wind turbine blades and is now moving Vestas’ 80.5-meter blades and the organizations look forward to continuing to build out the wind energy industry. Additionally, the organization currently recycles up to 100,000 pounds of blade material per day in the U.S. through cement co-processing, and Vestas has recycled 8,796 tons of blade material since 2021.