MTMC shifts Yokohama container freight station work.In another step aimed at concentrating on its 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 has modified its Yokohama container freight station workload. Effective Oct. 1, the station's work has been shifted to Defense Distribution Center Yokosuka-Japan. "The change eliminates duplication of effort in relationship to container management on mainland Japan Mainland Japan (Japanese: 内地 naichi, lit. "inner lands") is an uncommon term to distinguish the area of Japan from Okinawa and Hokkaidō and the colonies that Japan used to possess in East Asia. ," said Maj. Jacqueline Lett, Executive Officer, 836th Transportation Battalion. "This includes loading and unloading containers, documentation for container movements, and port clearance." Sixteen Master Labor Contract personnel who conducted container freight station operations at the battalion will now augment the Defense Distribution Center staff at Yokosuka. The organization is a subordinate element of the Defense Logistics Agency Noun 1. Defense Logistics Agency - a logistics combat support agency in the Department of Defense; provides worldwide support for military missions Defense Department, Department of Defense, DoD, United States Department of Defense, Defense - the federal department . The decision to transfer the function resulted after months of review by a working group of the 836th Transportation Battalion. The group was established to take a hard look at improving the efficiency of port operations. The change at 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) will actually result in an increase in work by Defense Distribution Center Yokosuka-Japan, at the battalion's North Dock North Dock is on the River Mersey at Garston, Merseyside, England. It is accessed from Old Dock, Garston. External links
"Once approved by United States Army United States Army Major branch of the U.S. military forces, charged with preserving peace and security and defending the nation. The first regular U.S. fighting force, the Continental Army, was organized by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1775, to supplement local Japan," said Lett, "they will establish an additional operations site here, using six of the 16 Master Labor Contract personnel transferred from the transportation battalion." Approximately 90 percent of all mainland cargo shipped in the Defense Transportation System is containerized con·tain·er·ize v.tr. con·tain·er·ized, con·tain·er·iz·ing, con·tain·er·iz·es 1. To package (cargo) in large standardized containers for efficient shipping and handling. 2. . Of that total, fifteen percent that would have previously transited through the 836th Transportation Battalion is now routed to Defense Distribution Yokosuka-Japan for processing. The 836th Transportation Battalion continues to provide vital transportation services in Yokohama. The battalion retains container management and customs clearance of all cargo and loading and discharging cargo from Military Sealift Command A major command of the US Navy, and the US Transportation Command's component command responsible for designated common-user sealift transportation services to deploy, employ, sustain, and redeploy US forces on a global basis. Also called MSC. See also transportation component command. controlled and chartered vessels. The center currently operates a cold storage facility, a general-purpose warehouse, and a climate-control warehouse on the installation. Additional warehouse space previously used by the 836th Transportation Battalion will be added to its inventory. The change is only the latest in a series of shifted workloads at MTMC's container freight stations. In the last two years, MTMC has closed three of four container freight stations in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . The Kent, Wash., container freight station, near Seattle, closed Feb. 28. Two stations in California-in Alameda and Oakland-closed in 1999. The container freight stations' workload has been shifted to the Defense Logistics Agency's Defense Distribution Center's facility in Tracy, Calif. The container freight stations represented considerable duplication, said Frank Galluzzo, Director, Distribution Analysis Center. "Shifting the workload to the Defense Distribution Center has made a lot of sense. They do the same work with several shifts of workers on a 24-hour basis. "The whole idea is to recognize the specific talents various components contribute to the Defense Transportation System," said Galluzzo. "Here, we are reducing some costly redundancies. "The goal is to reduce the freight distribution platforms to a few," said Galluzzo. "Then you can explode distribution from a select number of ports." |
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