CSX Corporation is a rail, ocean and trucking transportation firm. This paper is an overview of this corporation and its general characteristics.This paper has eight pages and five sources are listed in the bibliography.
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airplanes from one point to another, and assume that almost everything these days is shipped by air. The truth, however, is that
many companies make use of other modes of shipping such as rail, trucking and even water. There are a variety of reasons for this - one of which involves the
particular product. For example, it is neither cheap nor safe to ship heavy steel via the friendly skies, as this could cause problems with a planes engine. This is where
trucking or even rail might come in. And this is where a company such as CSX Corporation would come in. Since the
middle of the 20th century, CSX Corporation has carved a comfortable transportation empire across the United States and around the world, shipping goods and services through its vast network of
truck and rail lines, as well as ocean carriers. This paper will examine CSX Corporation, its position in the marketplace and some
of its subsidiaries. Also included in the paper will be some financial information about the company as a whole - as well as reference in each section to various revenues.
CSX - An Overview Based in Richmond, Va., the CSX Corporation is a worldwide transportation and distribution company with a variety of
services to move packages from one place to another, whether that place be across the country or around the world (Hoover Business (a), 2002). CSX was formed in 1980 with
the merger of the Chessie System Railway and the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad - which is where the "C" and "S" in the companys name comes from (Bagsarian, 2001). "X,"