WFA enables utilities to keep providing power with its coal services.
By Alan Dorich
When electrical utilities in the Great Plains, Rocky Mountain and Southwest regions need top-notch coal and transportation services, they know they can rely on Western Fuels Association (WFA). “We provide a good value to our members,” Manager-Fuel, Transportation and Technical Services Kenn Gray declares.
“We are experts in coal transportation and procurement,” he continues. “That allows our members to use our capabilities instead of having their own people on staff that may not have as much background in transportation and fuel procurement as we do.”
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Global powertrain supplier Dana gained full visibility into its supply chain after implementing the One Network platform.
By the Editors of Transportation & Logistics International
Like many suppliers, Dana Inc. a few years ago found itself struggling with high costs related to its inventory levels. The Maumee, Ohio-based company’s air and ocean freight costs were on the rise because of it either carrying too much, or too little, inventory on its parts. This frequently led Dana to request expedited shipments of inbound freight to cover its inventory shortages.
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Angelica Garcia-Dunn didn’t have much experience in the logistics industry in 2003, when she was a branch manager for a well-known bank in Houston. It wasn’t until she became a financial service advisor that she was introduced to a small woman-owned logistics company that specialized in ocean-to-air cargo from Venezuela.
Garcia-Dunn was offered a sales position with that company, and within a few years she had amassed a strong base of knowledge about freight forwarding that got her another job with a large flatbed carrier and allowed her to open an office for it in Houston. With that experience under her belt, Garcia-Dunn was inspired to go into business for herself, founding AIM Global Logistics in 2009. By 2012, AIM was named the Emerging Business of the Year by the Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
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Based 10 miles south of Albany and 100 miles north of New York City, the Port of Coeymans is a privately owned, full service, deep-water marine terminal. Boasting modern facilities, state-of-the-art technology and equipment, and an experienced labor pool, the port can provide customers with solutions for their shipping, processing, warehousing and inland transportation needs.
“A decade ago, water transportation was often an afterthought,” Vice President of Sales and Business Development Stephen Kelly says. “Current conditions such as increased bridge restrictions, regulations on trucking and higher tolls have more companies looking at water and doing projects by utilizing water access and transportation. That is a big change and has helped facilitate our growth.”
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Offering a wide variety of blacktop, aggregates and ready-mix concrete products and services, New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co. Inc. has established itself as a leader in the world of high-spec, high-performance building materials. This year, the company overhauled its transportation operations and shifted from plant-based dispatch to two central dispatch centers in October and November to streamline its fleet management process.
With a background in equipment and transportation management, Mike Modica joined the company in January 2015 as vice president of transportation to manage the fleet out of the new regional dispatch centers in Roaring Springs, Pa., and Denver, Pa.
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Before entering a business relationship, the five most important questions any customer has are: “Who? What? Where? When? How?” Best Logistics Group asked itself these questions when the company first began in 1986 and uses them everyday to deliver world-class logistics solutions.
Best Logistics is a single-owner, privately held business made up of six individual operating companies, including three fleets to cover all transportation and logistic needs. These companies are:
• Best Dedicated, which provides dedicated trucking services to increase efficiency in the supply chain;
• Best Specialized, which offers heavy haul and oversized load transportation;
• Best Global, which is an integrated network of international transportation and distribution services for ocean and airfreight;
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With more than 100 years of experience and a reputation for providing excellent service, Arpin Van Lines remains a dominant and successful moving and storage company. “Quality driven and privately owned, Arpin Van Lines’ core philosophy has always been creating customers for life,” the company says.
The West Warwick, R.I.-based company is family owned and operated with more than 385 agency locations throughout the United States. Arpin Van Lines is an industry leader in household goods moving and storage services for corporate, government, military and residential customers. The company has one of the strongest industry reputations for providing the highest quality control and performance standards to the military and Government Services Administration (GSA). Arpin Van Lines handles about 14,000 GSA and military relocations per year.
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The Pacific Northwest is renowned for its forest products, and the Knutson family has been at the center of that industry for the past 100 years. The family’s involvement extends from early methods of floating logs down the river to sawmills to today’s use of tugboats, trucks and even high-tension lines that function like zip lines to send carriages of logs weighing tons speeding down mountainsides to trucks and barges.
President John Knutson attributes the company’s longevity to several factors. “First of all, we have been very flexible in the jobs and the industries that we have aligned ourselves with,” Knutson says. “The need for that has been due to evolution in our different industries and our geographic area.”
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