CSX to Close Administrative Division in West Virginia
CSX will close administrative offices in Huntington, West Virginia, the company said Jan. 18.
The closure will shrink operations administration from 10 divisions to nine, according to an announcement on the company’s website.
Huntington's functions will be reassigned to divisions in Atlanta, Baltimore, Florence, South Carolina, Great Lakes and Louisville, Kentucky.
There are 121 management and union employees in the Huntington division. Those workers will remain in the area during the transition, which will take several months, according to the announcement.
Once the transition is complete, some workers will be offered other positions in the company.
The company did not say whether any workers would be laid off.
The railroad said it will continue to operate trains in the territory and that yards and other facilities in the Huntington region will continue to operate.
That includes the Huntington locomotive shop.
The reorganization is related to a $1.4 billion decline in CSX coal revenues over the past four years and the effect of low natural-gas prices and regulatory action on the central Appalachian coal fields, the company said.
CSX also has closed mechanical shops at Corbin and reduced train operations at Erwin, Tennessee.
The company said it remains committed to the Huntington community. CSX maintains more than 2,000 miles of track in West Virginia and handled more than 1.7 million carloads of freight in the state in 2014.
