6/23/08
Quality Warehouse Expands to Provide More Cross-Border Crossdocking!

Quality Warehouse & Distribution Co., featured in our last newsletter, has already expanded its operations to include an additional 30,000 s/f at the 100 Sweetwater Avenue crossdock in the Raritan Center Business Park. The new facility will help Quality Warehouse offer additional carspots, storage and distribution solutions to customers looking to import goods from Mexico by rail. Both the new location and the original 58 Northfield Avenue facility have equipment able to unload almost all types of cargo from boxcars: fork lifts, clamp trucks, drum clamps for both fiber or steel drums and squeeze clamps for slip sheet unloading. Once a product is unloaded, Quality Warehouse can provide warehouse storage or transloading onto trucks for distribution in the middle Atlantic or New England areas.

With import/export traffic becoming increasingly important in the new global marketplace, count on Quality Warehouse’s over 40 years of expertise in handling international shipments to help you move your product without headaches or hidden expenses. For more information visit its website: qualitywarehouse.com, call them at 732-287-5005, or email cirinelli@qualitywarehouse.com.

6/23/08
70 Newfield Avenue in Raritan Center Available for Lease

If you’re looking to join us in Raritan Center, the perfect location just became available: 70 Newfield Avenue. 70 Newfield features 57,000 s/f of space with 3 rail doors and 7 truck doors. The modern facility is perfect for food or paper grade warehousing or crossdocking. Call us for more information: 617-243-0137.

6/23/08
Pennsylvania & Southern Wins Award for Growth, Welcomes New Shippers

The Pennsylvania & Southern Railway was recently honored by CSX with its Short Line Business Development Award. This award was given in recognition of the cooperative efforts that generated the highest switch carrier percentage growth on the CSX system. The award was a result of our efforts to work with exisiting customers to help expand operations as well as attracting a number of new customers to the extensive Cumberland Valley Business Park.

Advanced Recycling has set up a recycling operation in one of the warehouses that sorts, processes, and transloads both ferrous and non-ferrous materials. The materials are shipped out in both hoppers and gondolas. A steady stream of covered hopper and tank cars has been passing through the railcar cleaning and inspection facility operated by Tactical Cleaning. The facility is fully equipped to handle all cleaning needs. Our versatile equipment ramps were utilized this spring to load construction machinery for JLG, a local equipment manufacturer. They were also employed by the United States Army to unload equipment returning from Iraq. Texas Eastern took advantage of our extensive lay-down areas to transload flatcar loads of pipe destined for a pipeline project. This is the second time our infrastructure has been used to transload materials such as this. Online feed and grain transloads continue to be heavily utilized to help supply the many farms and agri-industry of central Pennsylvania. The transloads can handle everything from single carloads to unit trains.

2/11/08
Supporting Our Soldiers and their Families

The Raritan Central Railroad is proud to help support Home Front Hearts, a not-for-profit group focused on helping with the day-to-day living and struggles that the families of deployed soldiers, especially the National Guard and Reserves, often face alone. Home Front Hearts also supports special projects at the request of our soldiers overseas. One such soldier is Capt. Ian Cairns, a married father of four from East Brunswick, New Jersey, who was deployed to Afghanistan in December as a member of the New Jersey National Guard. His dispatches written for the local paper bring to life the challenges soldiers face, including watching how children try to survive bitter cold winters without adequate clothing. Because of his request for help, over 70 boxes of hats, gloves, and other winter clothing were shipped to Afghanistan by Home Front Hearts. We hope you take the time to read some of his dispatches listed below. You can also help Home Front Hearts by visiting its website at www.homefronthearts.com.

Connectivity. Affton Opens a New Gateway for Plastics Transloading

Corporate Logistics is pleased to present Affton Terminal Service’s new 45 carspot St. Louis transload facility. The transload provides Gulf States resin manufacturers and distributors with the space, level of service, and flexibility that they’re looking for in a midwest location. Affton’s ability to access six “Class 1” railroads, own bulk trucking fleet, and close proximity to four major interstates brings the entire midwest into reach. It has on-site warehousing and storage capabilities, cost-competitive trucking rates, and 24/7 operations. Affton’s experience in handling international containers can also help with your import/ export shipments as well! For more information contact us or Affton directly: Christopher Wright: 314-388-9700 x282, chris@afftontrucking.com, or www.afftontrucking.com.