Empresa Ferroviaria Oriental, S.A.

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. is a strategic investor in the Empresa Ferroviaria Oriental, S.A., a 1,243-kilometre network serving eastern Bolivia, headquartered in Santa Cruz de las Sierra. The company was privatized in March 1996 and is owned 50% by pension funds on behalf of the Bolivian people. For the convenience of customers, business may be conducted in Spanish, Portuguese and English.

The Oriental connects the rich agricultural center surrounding Santa Cruz and the natural gas producing region of southern Bolivia with Argentina to the south, Brazil to the east, and to world markets through transloading shipments onto barges operating within the Hidrovia, a primary system of waterways extending to export terminals in Uruguay and Argentina.

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