Savage develops and operates materials management and transportation systems for the electric power generation, cogeneration and coal mining industries. In this area, Savage moves and/or handles coal, waste coal, ash, limestone and other power plant-related bulk materials such as sulphur sludge. We manage coal handling, receiving and coal stockyard operations, including a fleet of over 1,500 railcars, for several major utilities at various coal-fired power plants. At most of these locations, we manage the operations through long-term outsource agreements, taking responsibility for the employees and staffing, supervision, mobile equipment and environmental considerations in a full scope including operations and maintenance of entire solid fuel handling areas. In many cases, we own and/or maintain the fixed facilities at these plants. Savage is recognized for its expertise in managing fuel and other raw materials used in electric power and steam generation, and in handling waste materials generated in the process.

Savage applies a systems approach to transport coal, ash, waste coal and other power related bulk products serving producers in Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Texas and Louisiana. This customer confidence, which has been earned over the years, has allowed us to become the largest over-the-road transporter of coal in the United States.

We also operate – and in many cases own and operate – large coal multi-modal terminals, such as our Savage Coal Terminal, the 7 million tons-per-year coal storage and rail loading facility in Price, Utah (the "SCT"), and the Point Tupper Marine Terminal (receiving over 1 million tons per year of inbound import coal and coke) at Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, Canada. SCT also features a new coal preparation plant, as a business venture by Arch Coal Inc., supported by Savage on a long-term basis. This plant increases the terminal’s ability to expand with a greater variety of coal products, bound for utility and industrial markets.

In 1989, Savage developed, designed and constructed our Wasco Coal Terminal, a major unit-train rail receiving, coal storage and truck loading terminal in California. The Wasco Coal Terminal receives Utah-origin coal unit-trains, unloads them to four large coal silos (nominally 11,000 tons each), and then loads trucks bound for cogeneration power plants located in the Kern River oil and gas production areas.