Inbound Logistics | January 2023

NOTED

> RECOGNITION

> SHOVEL READY

n Refrigerated warehouse company Interstate Warehousing began constructing a facility on a 92-acre site in Kingman, Arizona

(right) . The first phase includes a 273,000-square-foot freezer facility that will house more than 30,000 pallet positions and feature turret trucks running in narrow aisles.

n The City of Rochelle, Illinois and the Greater Rochelle Economic Development Corporation broke ground for an intermodal container yard in the industrial park at the Rochelle Intermodal Transload Center. The container yard is served by the City of Rochelle Railroad.

• Ken Kellaway (right) , co-founder, president, and CEO of RoadOne IntermodaLogistics, received the Containerization and Intermodal Institute’s Connie Award, which honors those who invest in and drive global containerization and intermodalism.

> M&A

n Norfolk Southern Railway agreed to acquire nearly all of Cincinnati Southern Railway’s assets, including a rail line covering about 337 miles and 9,500 acres. n Trimble purchased Transporeon, a cloud-based transportation management software platform, for $2.01 billion. Transporeon’s platform provides modular applications for a global network of 145,000 carriers and 1,400 shippers and load recipients. n Werner Enterprises closed on its acquisition of Reed Transport Services and RTS-TMS, operating as ReedTMS Logistics. ReedTMS is an asset-light logistics provider and truckload carrier o‘ering freight brokerage and truckload solutions. n As its fifth acquisition in 2022, PS Logistics bought Clays Transport and Clays Logistics, an interstate trucking and brokerage company specializing in flatbed shipping in the Southeast United States. The acquired companies operate under the Clays Logistics brand.

• For the third consecutive year, the Women In Trucking Association named Averitt Express as one of its Top Companies for Women to Work for in Transportation (above) . Averitt Express also was named a Military Friendly Employer by Viqtory , a veteran-owned small business that connects the military community to employers. • Savage, a global provider of industrial logistics infrastructure, earned the 2023 Gold Military Friendly Employer designation for its commitment to recruiting, retaining, and advancing veterans. Savage has received this recognition for five consecutive years.

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