Looking Forward

with Watco Chief Sustainability Officer Laura McNichol

At Watco, our goal is to be ever-improving stewards – of our customers, our team members, and our planet.

Building off of the lessons learned from our Global Real Estate and Sustainability Benchmarking (GRESB) Infrastructure Assessment, we will continue to advance our ESG efforts. In 2022, we will complete our first full inventory of greenhouse gas emissions following the GHG Protocol’s Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard. We will also build upon internal materiality determinations and conduct a materiality assessment engaging external stakeholders.

More broadly, we aim to lead the short line railroad industry in ESG efforts. We will continue to use available technologies to reduce our carbon footprint in a way that is sustainable for our business and do our part to advance technological development to achieve even more. We will work to stretch every gallon of fuel and every kilowatt hour of energy as far as we can – to continue delivering a better tomorrow.