Union Pacific restructures

Union Pacific is to consolidate its six major business units into four: Agricultural Products, Energy, Industrial and Premium. The company is also refocusing its customer service centre and consolidating four subsidiaries into one to help better serve customers.

The new Agricultural Products team will be led by Brad Thrasher and will include all of the markets previously under the Agricultural Products business unit, adding fertiliser.

Energy will be led by Linda Brandl and will include the previous Coal business team, in addition to frac sand, LPG and petroleum and wind markets.

Industrial will be led by Kenny Rocker and will include markets that comprised the previous Industrial Products business unit, excluding frac sand and wind, and adding industrial chemicals, plastics and soda ash markets from the former Chemicals business unit.

Premium will be led by Jason Hess and will include all the markets previously served by the company’s Intermodal and Automotive business units.

Union Pacific is also expanding its Economic and Industrial Development team to enhance the work done with customers and local economic development teams to add additional transportation options for customers not served directly by rail.

For more information visit www.up.com

1st Oct 2017