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BNSF Railway Co. serves all major U.S. West and Gulf Coast ports, and is the country’s largest intermodal carrier — attributes that make the railroad an ideal transportation partner for Chinese and other Asian shippers, said Group Vice President-Consumer Products Steve Branscum at a recent ocean shipping conference in Ningbo, China. The railroad already has doubled Asia-related business during the past few years.

“The BNSF network has an east-west orientation ideally suited for the substantial growth in trade that is occurring between North America and Asia,” he said, according to the “BNSF Today” Web site. “BNSF depends on intermodal as the growth engine for our company [and] we make substantial investments to keep it growing.”

Since 1995, the Class I has spent more than $20 billion to increase capacity, including the acquisition of more than 2,700 locomotives and 32,000 double-stack platforms, and construction of logistics parks. BNSF plans to build additional parks on the West Coast and within the U.S. interior.

In addition, the railroad’s Asia/U.S. supply-chain partners have been increasing throughput by optimizing vessel alliances, operating around the clock and simplifying operations, and increasing yard utilization, said Branscum.