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Watco
Company type
Freight Transportation Services and Logistics
Industry
Railroads
Logistics
Terminals & Ports
Founded
July 1 , 1983
Founder
Charles R. "Dick" Webb [1]
Headquarters
Pittsburg, KS 66762
Area served
North America and Australia
Key people
Dan Smith, CEO
Number of employees
4,800
Website
www.watco.com
Watco Companies, L.L.C. (Watco) Watco is an American transportation and logistics company based in Pittsburg, Kansas. The company’s core services are freight transportation, material handling and storage, logistics, railcar repair and maintenance.
Watco owns and/or operates 45 short line railroads in North America and Australia, with more than 8,000 miles of track connecting to Class I railroads. It is one of the largest short line owner-operators in the U.S. The company also operates, and in many cases owns, over 70 transload and marine terminals, and a handful of terminals that specialize in the repair and maintenance of railcars and locomotives.
Watco employs about 4,800 team members, led by Chief Executive Officer Dan Smith. The company earned $1.6 billion in revenues in 2022.
Watco's Greens Port
In 2023, the company was certified by Best Practice Institute (BPI) for the second year in a row as a Most Loved Workplace. In 2022, in collaboration with BPI, Newsweek named Watco to its annual list of America’s Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces. Watco was also named a 2023 Newsweek Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace®. [2]
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kilometres) of track in Western North Carolina. The railroad is owned by Watco of Pittsburg, Kansas, and operates three lines that connect in the Asheville...
being scrapped in December 2015. Both CFCL Australia units were sold to Watco Australia in 2016 and transferred to Perth to operate Brookfield Rail infrastructure...
16, 2021, and then qualified to do business in Oklahoma. It is owned by Watco. VESO's purpose is to be a common carrier railroad to connect Tulsa Port...
lines and assets in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ontario to short-line operator Watco. In April 2021, CN bid nearly $30 billion for Kansas City Southern (KCS)...
first loco, 2188D, was transferred to Watco's new facilities in Warwick on 31 July 2019. They will be used on Watco's grain and cattle services, in conjunction...
mixed-use complex in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, invested by Keppel Land Watco I. The complex is located on Le Loi Boulevard in District 1, Ho Chi Minh...
1999 Sold 2005 to Savage Companies Camas Prairie RailNet 1998 Sold 2004 to Watco Georgia and Florida RailNet 1999 Sold 2005 to OmniTRAX Illinois RailNet...
Railroad (reporting mark JXPT) is a short line terminal railroad run by Watco. It serves the Jacksonville Port Authority and tenants with over ten miles...
with day-to-day operations contracted out. In December 2010, CBH awarded Watco Australia a ten-year contract to operate services in the south of Western...
railroads are owned by railroad holding companies such as Genesee & Wyoming or Watco. Some examples of Class III railroads would be the Maryland and Delaware...
10 June 2011. Retrieved 25 March 2010. The Dispatch July 2019 - Watco Companies. Watco Australia. 2019. "BMA plans to use its own trains to move coal -...
was built by M.C.R.R. In July 2007, Norfolk Southern was in talks with Watco, a shortline holding company, to sell the Kalamazoo-Detroit portion of the...
a standard gauge switching railroad in Geismar, Louisiana controlled by Watco Holdings, Inc. that operates a 1.76-mile line leased from Illinois Central...
Company inc. pp. 107–108. ISBN 0-7864-0495-7. "Weasua Air Transport Company (WATCO) history from Africa, Liberia". Airline History. Retrieved 2020-04-22. "Wesua...
south of Asheville between mileposts 1 and 26 to Watco, a Class III shortline railroad operator. Watco operates this segment as the Blue Ridge Southern...
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