Growing up on a family farm in South Jersey, Fred Sorbello learned early about the value of hard work, respect and reaching for the proverbial stars.
The holidays are a time for giving, and no one knows this better than Baltimore area shipping industry leaders whose benevolent efforts are helping victims of the floods that devastated India’s Kashmir region in September.
Led by increasing steel volumes and a dynamic project cargo sector, breakbulk activity is surging at docks throughout the U.S. Gulf region.
From its tuberous transportation roots in Eastern Canada to its expansion into a coast-to-coast, multicommodity trucking empire, The Day & Ross Transportation Group is anything but small potatoes, and John Doucet, who has led that growth for more than two decades, sees it as a natural progression in the Canadian marketplace.
The Intermodal Association of North America’s 32nd annual IANA Intermodal EXPO brought more than 1,700 industry leaders together Sept. 21-23 at Southern California’s Long Beach Convention Center for hot-topic educational sessions, networking opportunities and a show floor filled with exhibit booths of railroads, seaports, equipment providers and others.
It should come as no surprise that Canadian National Railway Co.’s vice president of intermodal services, Keith Reardon, anticipates that the trend of escalating volumes of intermodal rail cargo will continue for the foreseeable future.
The project cargo market is beginning to rebound, according to Joerg Roehl, chief commercial officer and managing director of Hamburg, Germany-based Hansa Heavy Lift GmbH.
As Baltimore-based MTC Logistics expands its temperature-controlled facility presence, the company’s president, F. Brooks Royster III, sees its flagship distribution center’s immediate proximity to uncongested Port of Baltimore berths delivering increasing benefits to shippers.
With more than a half a century of expertise in handling vehicles, the Port of Baltimore continues to build upon its prominence as the No. 1 U.S. port for combined imports and exports of automobiles.
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