North American railroad companies by carloads 2023

In 2023, BNSF Railway was ranked first among North American railroad companies, with over nine million carloads of freight transported. Focus on Norfolk Southern Railway Norfolk Southern Railway is one of the seven U.S. Class I freight railroads operating on approximately 20,000 miles of tracks in the Southeast, East, and Midwest of the United States. It began operations in 1982 under the parent company, Norfolk Southern Corporation, and has been headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia since 2021. The company is a major transporter of coal, automotive, and industrial products, operating a fleet younger than the average age of the North American locomotive fleet. In the 2022 fiscal year, the company employed around 19,300 people. In that same fiscal year, it generated almost 12.7 billion U.S. dollars in revenue from its three major business lines – general merchandise, intermodal, and coal. Commodities such as chemical, agricultural, metal,revenue share and construction products make up the railroad’s highest share of revenue. The railroad is among the leading North American railway company in terms of revenue-ton miles and carloads. According to Forbes, the company was valued at around 52.29 billion U.S. dollars in 2024, ranking it fifth among the world’s largest railway companies. In April 2016, a proposed merger worth almost 30 billion U.S. dollars was dropped when Canadian Pacific Railway failed to acquire Norfolk Southern after facing heavy resistance from other peer railway companies.

于2023年，美国BNSF铁路公司荣膺北美铁路企业之首，运输货物车次超过九百万。本报告聚焦于诺福克南方铁路公司。诺福克南方铁路公司系美国七家一级货运铁路公司之一，运营于美国东南部、东部及中西部约两万英里的铁路线。该公司自1982年起在母公司诺福克南方股份有限公司的领导下开始运营，并于2021年将总部迁至乔治亚州亚特兰大。作为煤炭、汽车及工业产品的主要承运商，该公司运营的机车车队平均年龄低于北美机车车队的平均水平。在2022财年，公司员工人数约为19,300人。在该财年内，公司通过其三大业务线——一般商品、多式联运和煤炭——实现了近127亿美元的营业收入。化学品、农产品、金属、建筑产品等商品构成了铁路收入的最大份额。在收入吨公里和货运车次方面，该公司在北美铁路公司中位居前列。据《福布斯》杂志报道，至2024年，该公司市值约为522.9亿美元，位列全球最大铁路公司第五位。2016年4月，一场价值近300亿美元的合并提议因加拿大太平洋铁路公司在面对其他同行铁路公司的强烈抵制后未能成功收购诺福克南方铁路公司而告吹。