South Gate distributor taking advantage of boom at the ports: freight will be transferred rather than stored at new Carson facility.THE explosive growth at the ports of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and Lone Beach is changing the ace of goods movement and forcing companies of all stripes to streamline their operations. In particular, Pacer Distribution Services Inc., a South Gate based warehouse operator and distributor, is opening a transload facility this month in Carson Carson, city (1990 pop. 83,995), Los Angeles co., S Calif., an industrial and residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1968. Oil refining is the major industry; fabricated metals, paper, and other products are manufactured. The California State Univ. Dominguez Hills is there. . Pacer, a unit of Concord-based Pacer International Pacer International NASDAQ: PACR is a U.S. based holding company with operations in non-asset based third-party logistics and intermodal freight transportation services. The company's subsidiary Pacer Stacktrain pioneered the use of "double-stack" rail services. Inc., one of the country's largest logistics companies, already has three warehouse facilities in the Los Angeles area, but this new facility is different. Unlike warehouses, transload facilities do not store freight, but instead serve as locations where the freight inside 40-foot foreign cargo containers unloaded from ocean carriers can be transferred into 53-foot, freeway-ready domestic containers. Typically, freight from four foreign containers is transferred into three domestic containers that may be shipped nationwide. The practice also allows local cargo to be removed, and expedites the shipment of empty containers back to their port of origin. "What we needed was a facility that was designed to move a lot of freight quickly and efficiently," said Pacer Distribution President Kent Prokop Prokop may mean either of two Hussite generals, both of whom died in the 1434 battle of Lipan:
The growth in transloading also eliminates a highly inefficient and costly practice known as "backhaul (1) The original definition of backhaul was to transmit a telephone call or data beyond its normal destination point and then back again in order to utilize available personnel (operators, agents, etc.) or network equipment that is not located at the destination location. ." When freight arrives 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 container used to be shipped to the middle of the country or to the east coast, where it was unloaded. Then, as much as much as 40 percent of the goods had to be shipped back to the west coast. Currently, there are only about a dozen pure transload facilities in the Los Angeles area. But Prokop said the facilities are becoming increasingly vital, because more ocean carriers are demanding that their freight be transloaded. "It's much more advantageous to them to turn this box at the port than inland," he said. "It's becoming more sophisticated than it was in the old days." Staff reporter Richard Clough Sir Richard Clough (c. 1530–1570) was a merchant from Denbigh and an agent of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Clough was from a humble background, but his fortunes were improved when he was noticed, as a boy chorister in Chester Cathedral, for his remarkable singing can be reached at (323) 549-5225, ext. 251, or at rclough@labusinessjournal.com. |
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