Container freight stations phasing out. (Second time in two years).In a move to emphasize core mission responsibilities, the Military Traffic Management Command A major command of the US Army, and the US Transportation Command's component command responsible for designated continental United States land transportation as well as common-user water terminal and traffic management service to deploy, employ, sustain, and redeploy US forces on a is phasing out its container freight stations. The facilities, located on both the East and West Coasts, are no longer a core part of the command's transportation mission, said Frank Galluzzo, Director, Distribution Analysis Center. "We've gotten out of the business," said Galluzzo, in a meeting with shipping executives Jan. 23. "We're almost out of it totally in two years." As recently as 18 months ago, MTMC MTMC Military Traffic Management Command (US DoD) MTMC Mount Marty College MTMC Micros-to-Mainframes, Inc. (stock symbol) MTMC Middle Tennessee Medical Center (Murfreesboro, TN) operated a quartet of freight stations, where cargo was loaded and unloaded from containers. Three of the stations are now closed. The status of a fourth station is under study. The workload The term workload can refer to a number of different yet related entities. An amount of labor While a precise definition of a workload is elusive, a commonly accepted definition is the hypothetical relationship between a group or individual human operator and task demands. conducted at the container freight stations has been shifted to the Defense Logistics Agency's Defense Distribution Center in Tracy, Calif. "There was a lot of duplication duplication /du·pli·ca·tion/ (doo-pli-ka´shun) 1. the act or process of doubling, or the state of being doubled. 2. ," said Galluzzo. "This is not one of our core missions. The Defense Distribution Center is already doing the same work on a 24-hour basis." The most recent station to close down was Kent, Wash., near Seattle, on Feb. 28. Two stations closed earlier: Alameda Alameda (ăləmē`də, –mā`də), city (1990 pop. 76,459), Alameda co., W central Calif., on an island just off the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay; settled 1850, inc. as a city 1884. , Calif., on April 30, 1999, and Oakland, Calif., on Dec. 31, 1999. A container freight station in Norfolk is currently under review. "The idea is to reduce the outlets of freight to a few," said Galluzzo. "Then you can explode (1) To break down an assembly into its component pieces. Contrast with implode. (2) To decompress data back to its original form. distribution from a select number of ports." |
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