Work Cat’s future strategies consist of buying high-capacity, innovative catamaran vessels
Work Cat Trans Gulf LLC, a brief sea delivery firm with strategies to present an ingenious 400 foot catamaran with the ability of transferring 300 truckload comparable deliveries, is currently supplying a container-on-barge (COB) solution in between the Port of Brownsville, Texas, as well as Port Tampa Bay in Florida.
Launched after a collection of regular freight cruisings considering that October to tweak procedures, the brand-new regular delivery choice successfully attaches markets in Florida as well as the Southeast United States with Texas’s Rio Grande Valley as well as Mexico’s commercial facilities in Monterrey, Saltillo, as well as Matamoros.
The procedure currently has actually relocated greater than 2,000 containers of consumer freights in between Texas as well as Florida, showing the benefits to clients. With solution times as well as rates choices stated to be affordable with normal trucking choices, the brand-new solution provides substantial brand-new capability, as well as benefits to carriers as well as clients throughout a large range of sectors as well as warehouse, specifically the greater than 300 procedures along the I-4 passage in Florida as well as Mexico’s commercial facilities in Monterrey.
Work Cat states that delivering freights straight in between Tampa as well as Brownsville includes concerning 40 percent much less range than trucking around the Gulf of Mexico, needing concerning quarter of the gas with substantial ecological financial savings as well as exhaust decreases. Additionally, as the regular solution expands, Work Cat will certainly consider added choices such as buying its high-capacity, innovative catamaran vessels that can offer also better efficiency financial savings.
“We’re excited to formally launch this new weekly service between the large and rapidly growing Northern Mexico, South Texas and Southeastern U.S. markets,” stated Hank Hoffman, Chief Executive Officer atWork Cat “Work Cat is built around the core pillars of excellence in shipping and logistics and we’re proud to work with Port Tampa Bay and the Port of Brownsville in carrying out our mission to provide customers with fast, safe and dependable transport from loading dock to customer site.”
Tampa- based Port Logistics Refrigerated Services as well as Brownsville- based Schaefer Stevedoring will certainly deal with the finding, combining, cross-docking, packing as well as arranging tasks at each port.
“At Schaefer Stevedoring, we have spent more than four decades focused on helping integrate steel and general cargo logistics through the Gulf Coast,” stated Nico Schaefer, Vice President atSchaefer Stevedoring “This new route will allow us to help a wide-range of customers get what they need when they need it – as quickly and efficiently as possible.”
“Restoring a strong transportation option between Brownsville and Tampa will help a number of our customers save a significant amount of time and money,” stated Rick Sharp, Chief Operating Officer forPort Logistics Refrigerated Services “We look forward to ensuring that using this route is as easy as possible for customers across the Gulf of Mexico and beyond.”
