by Brent Bois on December 28, 2011
It’s been an eventful autumn for us at Universal Transportation Services Group. We are in our busiest shipping time of the year, and as a result, we’ve need to bolster our internal team with serious, ear-to-the-ground ammunition.
UTS is thrilled to have hired longtime trucking industry veteran Bart Giangiacomo as our new Director of Operations. In his new capacity, Bart has supervision over UTS Group’s transport operations, overseeing container volumes, schedule and overall management.
Bart’s background has always been in the transportation industry. He was a driver and owner operator of his own vehicle throughout the 1990s. He then joined Transport America for most of the ‘00s in various positions, rising most recently to that firm’s Process Improvement Specialist.
Bart studied at University of Missouri-Columbia and received a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, and later pursued and received an MBA in Business Administration from Chicago’s Columbia College.
Bart’s experience is a welcome addition to our Universal Transportation Services Group team, and with Bart at the helm, we intend to increase our operational capacity and growth in the Midwest Intermodal transportation industry.
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by Brent Bois on December 19, 2011
As we move into Universal Transport Group’s busiest time of the year, we’re pleased to see intermodal transport has been picking up not only for our company, but nationwide for other transport companies as well.
Trade website Bulk Transporter writes about the strongest quarterly growth of the year for domestic container volume. From the article:
“Domestic container volume posted its strongest growth of the year in Q3 2011″, according to the Intermodal Association of North America’s (IANA’s) Intermodal Market Trends & Statistics report released today.
Domestic container shipments increased 9.0% year-over-year during the quarter, slightly above the 8.8% and 8.6% upticks recorded in the first and second quarters of 2011. And despite a stagnant economy and falling diesel prices, overall intermodal volume still recorded its seventh consecutive quarter of year-over-year gains.
While the container volumes are rising, the report’s authors caution that trailer volumes are less than expected. They write:
“While rising diesel prices drove freight to trailers during the first half of the year, diesel prices began a decline in the third quarter which may have contributed to the decline in trailer activity in rail service.”
IANA’s Intermodal Market Trends & Statistics Report provides a comprehensive, in-depth look at intermodal industry data. For more in-depth reading, you can order a copy of the report on their website.
Universal Transport Services Group is also seeing good business pickup, and certain regions, like Detroit, are showing large container volume increases. Glad to see a little light as we get close to a new year.
