CSX Transportation reorganizes, cuts jobs
By Staff -- Logistics Management, 10/1/1999
CSX Transportation, one of the two major railroads in the Eastern United States, has implemented what it calls "a significant commercial and operational reorganization." The purpose of the change, it says, is to promote customer focus and speed decision-making.In a separate announcement, the railroad said it would eliminate 800 management jobs by the end of the year, which it says will save $75 million annually. (It still intends to hire another 1,300 train and engine employees next year.) CSXT is offering voluntary separation and early retirement incentives as part of the effort to achieve those reductions.
In reorganizing, the railroad created three new service groups: merchandise, coal, and automobiles. In addition, its intermodal unit remains in place. A senior operations official has been assigned to each group as a link between the commercial and operating arms of the railroad.
At the same time, CSXT reorganized its operating department into five regions. The regions and their headquarters are: Northeast, in Albany, N.Y.; Western, in Chicago; Central, in Huntington, W. Va.; Midwest, in Louisville, Ky.; and Southern, in Jacksonville, Fla.
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