The R. J. Corman Railroad Company/Tennessee Terminal will add 36.6 miles of industrial track in the Memphis, Tennessee and Olive Branch, Mississippi area.
The company will lease the industrial switching trackage from BNSF Railway (BNSF); operations began Sunday, January 15, 2006. This additional trackage will allow R. J. Corman to serve customers in Memphis and Olive Branch.
Pete Petree, president, R. J. Corman Railroad Company, said, "We have an excellent relationship with the BNSF Railway that is built upon mutual respect. We very much appreciate the opportunity to do business with one of America's great railroads, and to continue the excellent customer service that BNSF has been providing its customers."
"BNSF consistently reviews its network to ensure the most efficient use of assets and to provide the most effective service for its customers," said BNSF's Pete Rickershauser, vice president, Network Development. "We see the transfer of portions of our Memphis-area industrial switching as an outcome of that ongoing review. This is our first operations outsourcing to R. J. Corman, a company having an excellent reputation for responsive value-added carload rail service for both rail customers and its connecting Class 1 partners. We are looking forward to experiencing Corman's capabilities in conjunction with BNSF's extensive rail network firsthand."
The R. J. Corman Railroad Company's marketing team has already begun introducing the quality services it can provide to those in the service area, along with the team members who will support the services. A team has already successfully met most of the customers along the new line, face to face.
"Our goal is to provide quality transportation solutions to customers in the Memphis area. The only way to do that is to meet with the customers and define what quality service means to them," Petree said. "Our core goals of improved customer satisfaction, improved profitability, and doing both for the long-term, lays the foundation for our focus -- providing the best transportation package we can."
