Throughout the U.S. Gulf region and beyond, leading marine terminal and logistics services provider LOGISTEC is touting benefits of Foreign-Trade Zones while advancing a new line of seamless solutions, dubbed LOGISTEC Direct.
“We are working a lot on FTZs,” Cleidy Liborio Fernandes, chief commercial officer of Montréal-based LOGISTEC, told the American Journal of Transportation. “Given the current political environment, our customers across our network have been inquiring about them and showing a lot of interest.”
At FTZ facilities it operates, LOGISTEC provides storage and arranges for a multitude of services, including trucking.
“These designated areas are considered by the U.S. government as being outside U.S. Customs territory,” Liborio said. “They can be very beneficial for companies involved in foreign trade, as merchandise may be brought into an FTZ without a formal Customs entry, duties, taxes or tariffs, import quotas, and other restrictions.”
The newly launched LOGISTEC Direct service line aims to furnish customers with solutions for seamless service from vessel to door, according to Liborio, an industry veteran who joined LOGISTEC last fall after serving as chief commercial and operating officer of French shipping and logistics leader CMA CGM.
LOGISTEC Direct solutions run the gamut from transloading, drayage and trucking to warehousing, container freight station (CFS) services and export staging, and are offered throughout the company’s North American network, from Northern Canada all the way down to the U.S. Gulf.
LOGISTEC operates in 85 terminals across 62 ports in North America, furnishing marine terminal and logistics services while handling a variety of bulk, breakbulk, project and containerized cargos.
The company has operations in a dozen ports along the U.S. Gulf: Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Freeport, Houston, Point Comfort and Port Aransas in Texas; Lake Charles, Louisiana; Pascagoula, Mississippi; and, in Florida, Pensacola, Port Redwing, SeaPort Manatee and Port Tampa Bay.
