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Chassis Inventory Increasing to West Coast, Midwest Locations

Chassis Shortages

To address major chassis shortages nationwide, Milestone Chassis updates and expands offerings on the West Cost and in the Midwest.

In the LA/LB market, Milestone is making the following improvements:

  • Launching after hours pickup (5pm or later)
  • Expanding inventory levels for available equipment types (which include 40’ gooseneck, 20’ tri-axels and 20’ sliders)
  • Continuing to offer HTA discounts that will apply to all after hours bookings

Milestone Chassis will also open two new locations to better serve key markets in the Midwest:

  • Cleveland:
    • Address: 300 E. 131st Street, Cleveland, OH 44108
    • Hours: 7:30am-4:30pm
    • Close proximity to Norfolk Southern & CSX rail ramps
    • Current inventory includes 6×20’ tri-axels (40’ gooseneck chassis to be added soon)
  • Detroit:
    • Address: 8501 W. Fort Street, Detroit, MI 48209
    • Hours: 7:30am-4:30pm
    • Close proximity to Norfolk Southern (onsite rail ramp), CSX, CP & CN rail ramps
    • Current inventory includes 40’ goosenecks, 20’ tri-axels & 20’ sliders

“We listened to our customers,” says Doug Hoehn, Executive Vice President, Milestone Chassis. “We have demonstrated our commitment to being the nation’s premiere intermodal lessor in 2018 – you can expect a continuation of these efforts in 2019. We will continue to evolve our offering in line with market needs.”

 

SOURCE: AJOT

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Milestone Chassis Partners with HTA to Reduce Turn Times

Problem Solvers

Truckers in Southern California who encounter an emergency requirement for a chassis, or wish to supplement their existing fleet during the peak season, can now turn to a joint pool established by the Harbor Trucking Association (HTA) and Milestone Chassis.

With chassis shortages intensifying during the peak shipping season, the HTA, with about 100 member companies in Los Angeles-Long Beach, on Oct. 4 launched its partnership with Milestone to offer members round-the-clock access to a diversified chassis fleet at their combined yard in Wilmington, California.

“It really started to hit in the last couple of weeks,” Doug Hoehn, executive vice president of Milestone, said Wednesday. Chassis shortages and dislocations occur on and off throughout the year in the largest US port complex, but they are especially prevalent during the late summer-autumn peak shipping season.

To read the rest of the story on JOC, click here.

 

SOURCE: Journal of Commerce

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The Hanjin Effect: Equipment Shortages & How Milestone is Here to Help

In response to the Hanjin Shipping bankruptcy, Milestone continues to offer an expansive fleet to minimize disruption for customers. Please find the latest news regarding this matter below.

An excerpt from Reuters:

By Jim Christie, Lisa Richwine and Tom Hals

The bankruptcy of Korea’s Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd (117930.KS) is causing ripple effects for importers bringing goods from Asian factories to U.S. malls by creating a shortage of trailers to move ocean-shipping containers on U.S. roads.

The world’s seventh-largest container carrier has more than 500,000 containers, and many already are clogging up ports and truck yards, tying up trailers that cannot be used to handle other cargo. That is beginning to worry freight handlers at U.S. West Coast ports and is the first sign of knock-on effects from the failure of Hanjin.

The problem stems from Hanjin’s shortage of cash, which has stranded $14 billion of cargo owned by companies such as HP Inc (HPQ.N), Home Shopping Network (HSNI.O) and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS). Much of the cargo is on more than 100 ships at sea because cargo handlers, tug operators and ports are refusing to work with Hanjin unless they get paid up front.

A lawyer for the shipper did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Terminal operators in the California ports of Long Beach and Oakland are not taking back empty containers. Many in the industry doubt Hanjin will pay storage costs, and a growing number of empty containers and the trailers they sit on are stranded.

“If it’s not fixed in the next couple of weeks, I think you’ll see a huge ripple effect across the industry,” said Weston LaBar, executive director for the Harbor Trucking Association in Long Beach, California.

LaBar said there are thousands of Hanjin containers on trailers out of circulation, and the uncertainty surrounding Hanjin appears to be pushing truckers to lock in trailers from his organization’s pool.

“We doubled in bookings this morning,” LaBar said. “We have availability, but we’re getting to the point where we may be leased out for our chassis.”

Shipping executives said there is ample supply of shipping containers, but trailers are limited. The West Coast ports previously have experienced brief shortages even when the stream of trade is functioning normally.

The Hanjin collapse has exacerbated the problem.

Read the full article here or request a quote here.

 

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