Central Transport Improves Service With New Terminals in the Midwest.Business Editors WARREN, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 6, 2002 In a move to expand coverage, Central Transport(R) today announced the opening of new customer service centers in Peru, IL and Effingham, IL. The opening of these service centers now brings the number of terminals in Illinois Illinois, river, United States Illinois, river, 273 mi (439 km) long, formed by the confluence of the Des Plaines and Kankakee rivers, NE Ill., and flowing SW to the Mississippi at Grafton, Ill. It is an important commercial and recreational waterway. to eleven. Through a series of changes in operations beginning in August 2002 Central Transport has rapidly grown and expanded its terminal network. "Opening service centers in Peru and Effingham allows Central Transport to reach more of our customers, more efficiently, and with more 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. ", said Bob Maringo, vice president of operations responsible for the North Central Region. In addition, Central Transport offers full state coverage in all states east of the Mississippi River Mississippi River River, central U.S. It rises at Lake Itasca in Minnesota and flows south, meeting its major tributaries, the Missouri and the Ohio rivers, about halfway along its journey to the Gulf of Mexico. plus Missouri Missouri, state, United States Missouri (mĭz  r`ē, –ə), one of the midwestern states of the United States. , Arkansas and
Louisiana.
Vice president of sales for the North Central Region, Roger Gumz, said, "Having these new terminals in Peru and Effingham we will be able to serve our customers with greater flexibility and speed, while still remaining price-competitive. The expansion has already had a positive impact from pick-up through final delivery, largely due to minimized rehandling of freight, more efficient operations, and improved customer service." Central Transport(R) is a leading brand of LTL LTL - Linear Temporal Logic service available in most major manufacturing and retail markets throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . The service provider, Central Transport International, Inc., is based in suburban Detroit and is part of a group of transportation-related companies that Forbes magazine ranks among its elite Forbes Private 500 with estimated 2001 revenue of $825 million and a work force of 5,100. |
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