Norfolk Southern Corp. is a transportation company, which engages in the rail transportation of raw materials, intermediate products, and finished goods. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and currently employs 20,700 full-time employees. The firm is engaged in the rail transportation of raw materials, intermediate products, and finished goods in the Southeast, East, and Midwest and, via interchange with rail carriers, to and from the rest of the United States. The firm also transports overseas freight through several Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports. The company offers an intermodal network in the eastern half of the United States. Its railroad operations system reaches various manufacturing plants, electric generating facilities, mines, distribution centers and transload facilities. The company is also a transporter of industrial products, including agricultural, forest and consumer products, chemicals, and metals and construction materials. The company serves every container port and a principal carrier of coal, automobiles and automotive parts. The company operates Great Lakes Reload (GLR) property in Chicago, a transload and warehouse facility.