JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A CSX Corp. spokesman Monday said the Jacksonville-based railroad expects to get back some of the $8.9 million owed to it by General Motors Corp. following the automaker's filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. CSX ships cars for General Motors.
"We've have had informal discussions about that they would assume our contract and wouldn't be able to get out of bankruptcy until they made good," said CSX spokesman Garrick Francis.
He said CSX reduced its exposure to General Motors by about half about a year ago. Francis said the company has carrier liens on all the goods that are in transit so it won't lose money on those carloads. In total, GM owes its creditors about $172 billion.
(The preceding article was published June 1, 2009, by the Jacksonville Business Journal.)