New services
By Staff -- Logistics Management, 2/1/2005
The Port of Tacoma and the Evergreen Group opened the Pierce County Terminal, a 171-acre container terminal located on the 51-foot-deep Blair Waterway. The terminal boasts a 12-track intermodal yard capable of accommodating up to 72 double-stack rail cars. The $210 million facility, which will serve Evergreen, Lloyd Triestino, and Hatsu Marine, has an estimated annual throughput capacity of 840,000 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent container units). (www.evergreen-america.com and www.portoftacoma.com)
Watkins Motor Lines has opened Regional Express hubs in Albany, N.Y., Thomasville, Ga., and Charlotte, N.C. This brings the number of Regional Express operations, which provide next-day service to terminals in the East and Southwest, to nine. The company plans to open five more express hubs in the Midwest and Southeast in the first half of this year. (www.watkins.com)
LOGISCO, a third-party logistics provider, acquired an additional 813,000 square feet of warehouse space in the the AirTech Park facility in Plainfield, Ind. With the new space, LOGISCO now operates more than 2.1 million square feet in the Indianapolis area. (www.teamlogisco.com)
AMB Property Corporation, a global developer of industrial real estate, has begun work on the Nash Logistics Center, an 80,000-square-foot distribution facility adjacent to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Tenants will benefit from rapid access to the cargo center by surface roads, as well as access to the surrounding highway network. The facility, expected to be ready for occupancy in the second quarter of this year, will feature 24-foot clear height, 18 dock-high truck positions, a concrete-reinforced truck apron, a 120-foot truck court, two grade ramps, and build-to-suit office space. (www.amb.com)























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