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Commodities: Food Overview
Food products include refrigerated and frozen foods, rice, edible beans, peas, lentils, alcoholic beverages, canned goods and tomato products.


Coast to Coast in 5 Days
Growers, shippers and manufacturers: get your fresh fruit and vegetables, frozen foods, wine, juices and other temperature-sensitive commodities to East Coast markets in record time. Use Railex 5-day coast-to-coast temperature-controlled transportation service. Learn more >


SpeedPlus 
Introducing SpeedPlus, high speed rail service combined with trucking and warehousing to deliver you a seamless, door-to-door solution to move your food and beverage products. Learn more >

These are some of the specialized services CSX provides for food shipments.

Express Lane
Express Lane is our expedited rail service for transporting produce and other food products between the West Coast and certain points on the East Coast. It's fast, efficient and designed to get your products to market quickly using the cost effectiveness of rail. Learn more >

Sunshine Special
The Sunshine Special is a door-to-door rail/truck solution that offers high-speed service from the Northeast, Mid-West and California to Florida. It's designed to get your food product to the Florida market cheaply, consistently and efficiently. Learn more >

Food Connection
If you're not rail served, would want to ship by rail, then our Food Connection program is designed for you. It's a network of over 300 CSX-served, food grade warehouses located near every major market in the eastern United States. So even if you're not rail served today, with our Food Connection program you can take advantage of the cost effectiveness of rail. Learn more >

Humanitarian Connection
CSX's Humanitarian Connection program is designed to move beans, rice and other commodities to ports for export under the USDA Food Distribution program. This service is the most efficient way to ship your goods to the ports for export. We can save you money on shipping, and help you deliver food aid faster to the people who desperately need it.
Learn more about Humanitarian Connection.
See a map of CSX-served ports.


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CSX moves everything from fresh produce to canned goods and beverages. Rail helps lower transportation costs and is a viable alternative to trucks. A supply chain built around rail not only can lower costs, but also can improve the efficiency of your entire supply chain.


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