CSX to invest US$160m in National Gateway

The improvements will complete the company’s US$860m ‘National Gateway’ project, a double-stack rail initiative designed to create a more efficient freight transportation link between the mid-Atlantic ports and the Midwest.

“The National Gateway, with its improvements to the Virginia Avenue Tunnel, Kilby Yard and along the I-95 rail corridor, will open new business opportunities for the Port and position the [Virginia] Commonwealth to be even more competitive in the global economy,” said Sean Connaughton, Virginia’s secretary of transportation.

“CSX and its public partners are working together to vastly improve the quality and flexibility of the eastern rail network,” added Michael Ward, CSX chairman, president and chief executive officer.