ADS Logistics Brings Integrated Logistics Services to Greater Atlanta Area.Business Editors & Automotive Writers HOMEWOOD, Ill.--(AutomotiveWire)--May 15, 2002 Driven by heightened customer demand for metals services, ADS Logistics commences warehousing and expands its transportation services to the Greater Atlanta area. ADS Logistics, (ADS) a national provider of integrated logistics services to the metals industry, announced today that it has commenced providing metals warehousing and expanded its transportation services in the greater Atlanta, GA area. Demand for metals logistics services in the southeast has increased significantly over the last ten years. Driven by this heightened customer demand, ADS expanded its integrated logistics services by co-locating the ADS/Roll & Hold division warehousing services with the ADS/Area Transportation division trucking services in a facility located in Pendergrass, GA, just northeast of Atlanta. ADS/ Area Transportation division has provided truck transportation services in this area for several years. The 180,000 square foot facility is owned by Shiloh Industries' Jefferson Blanking division and produces laser-welded blanks for the automotive industry The automotive industry is the industry involved in the design, development, manufacture, marketing, and sale of motor vehicles. In 2006, more than 69 million motor vehicles, including cars and commercial vehicles were produced worldwide. . ADS/ Roll & Hold division is providing warehousing services for coils, blanks, and other metals products in a portion of this Jefferson Blanking facility. The facility is rail served, providing added cost reduction opportunities to customers shipping larger coil sizes, longer distances via rail as opposed to over-the-road trucking. Rail service is provided by the CSX CSX Chessie Seaboard Multiplier (railroad transportation company) CSX Cayman Islands Stock Exchange CSX Changsha, China (Airport Code) CSX Cardiac-Specific Homeobox CSX Seaboard Coastline Railroad Railroad; a long-standing business partner to ADS as CSX provides service to several other ADS/Roll & Hold locations. "We are elated to have a quality organization like ADS Logistics located on CSXT CSXT Civilian Space Exploration Team CSXT Chessie System Railway and Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Transportation (Jacksonville, FL, USA) serving the greater Atlanta market to assist us in meeting our customer needs and in growing our business" states Darrell Stanyard, director of business development, Metals Marketing, CSX Transportation "CSX" redirects here. For the parent company, see CSX Corporation. For other uses, see CSX (disambiguation). CSX Transportation (AAR reporting marks CSXT) is a Class I railroad in the United States, owned by the CSX Corporation. . ADS Logistics, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control is the premier national provider of integrated logistics and supply chain solutions for the metals industry. Services include multi-modal transportation; warehousing and logistics management Logistics Management is that part of Supply Chain Management that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective, forward, and reverse flow and storage of goods, services, and related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet ; as well as value-added services A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions. such integrated logistics; inventory management; metals supply chain software and outsourcing. www.adslogistics.com |
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