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FoodServiceWarehouse.com, an e-commerce company focused on
food-service equipment and supplies, has signed a 10-year lease to
occupy 475,200 square feet of warehousing and distribution space
in Hunt Midwest SubTropolis, the world’s largest underground
business complex, in Kansas City, Mo. … Load Delivered Logistics, a
technology-enabled third-party logistics service provider, has added
60 jobs and 24,000 square feet to its existing office in the River North
neighborhood of Chicago. … Lineage Logistics, a warehousing and
logistics company, has acquired two cold storage facilities in Santa
Cruz County, Calif. … Satellite Logistics Group, a supply chain solution provider for the beverage industry, has opened a new decon-solidation warehouse in Felixstowe, England. … Allen Distribution,
a third-party logistics service provider
based in south central Pennsylvania,
is constructing a 500,000-square-foot
warehouse in the transportation corridor along Interstate 81 in Carlisle, Pa.
… Storage Solutions Inc. has opened a
regional 50,000-square-foot distribution
center in Montebello, Calif., as well as a
new office in Ontario, Calif.
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KCS has significantly cut dwell times since
the steps were introduced, Ottensmeyer
said. When the pilot began, KCS achieved
a 24-hour turnaround on Whirlpool’s
containers about 37 percent of the time,
Ottensmeyer said. Today, it is over 50 percent, he said.
Discussions are under way to automate
the customs approval process itself; this
includes the potential for “digitizing” a
long-standing tradition of requiring that
customs officials stamp hard copies of
export documentation before the goods
can be released. Ottensmeyer said KCS has
“developed a productive dialogue” with
Mexican customs officials about the possibility of increased automation.
The holy grail for speeding up transit
times, according to Ottensmeyer, would
be for customs brokers to provide truckers
with the “pedimento”—the Mexican export
document that controls and verifies customs
clearance—before the driver reaches the
ramp with the load. That would effectively
provide release authorization at the time of
arrival at the rail terminal. Currently, the
paperwork process doesn’t begin until truck,
driver, and container arrive at the ramp.
If intermodal can eliminate the bottlenecks that prolong transit times, it could
go a long way toward addressing shippers’ concerns about border congestion and
security on the roads and help intermodal
make meaningful inroads into the trucking
industry’s dominance of cross-border trade.
Through May, the last month for which
public data were available as DC VELOCITY
went to press, trucks carried 67.3 percent
of the $44.4 billion worth of freight to
and from Mexico, followed by rail at 13. 8
percent, according to the Department of
Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation
Statistics.
Intermodal advocates argue that its users
are able to avoid truck traffic tie-ups at the
border because shipments are often cleared
in-bond at interior locations. In addition,
intermodal theft is virtually nonexistent
because the doors of the lower container on
a double-stack train can’t be opened while
the container is in the well car, and the
upper container is more than 15 feet off the
ground.
—M.S.
