KCS, RPC open transload facility in Mexico

Written by jrood

In a March 30 ribbon-cutting ceremony, KCS and Rehrig Pacific Company celebrated the opening of a new transload facility to be served by KCS and operated by RPC at an industrial park in the City of Queretaro. KCS de Mexico president and executive representative Jose Zozaya and RPC chief executive officer Joseph Doka were on hand. Also attending the ceremony was KCS executive vice president sales and marketing Pat Ottensmeyer. The Queretaro transload facility allows KCS to better serve customers within the industrial park with an unloading platform and capacity for 19 cars on two tracks, creating significant savings in transportation, logistics and storage costs for area customers. Transload facilities add capacity to the KCS network by providing customers not located directly on the rail line with access to rail service. As part of their visit to the State of Queretaro, Zozaya and Ottensmeyer toured the Queretaro market area with members of the KCS sales and marketing team. The group visited existing and potential customers and toured the area on the ground and by plane to gather market intelligence. Queretaro is a vast industrial area with many customers already served by KCS. The manufacturing sector contributes 29 percent to the state's gross domestic product. With more manufacturers choosing to locate in Queretaro, KCS sees significant potential to bring additional rail service to the area. "KCS has identified Queretaro as a target market ripe for conversion from truck to rail," said Ottensmeyer. "We will be aggressively marketing our intermodal, transload and carload conversion opportunities in this burgeoning market."  

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