We understand that wind energy is a vital resource. We take the responsibility to optimize transportation of any and all wind energy components very seriously and with great care. In Worthing, S.D., we created a wind turbine transload and storage center that provides a wide range of services and benefits.

Services offered at our Worthing location:

• Component storage on 8 acres
• Heavy lift with cranes, stackers and forklifts
• Railcar spotting with up to 77 spaces
• Directly served by BNSF Railway

The site serves as a rail distribution point for South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota. It helps save time, money and provides greater visibility. We operate wind energy transload through a current network of fifteen transload locations positioned to meet industry needs. Where there is a need, we have a solution.

We were contracted to provide comprehensive transportation and logistics management services to Rio Tinto in 2003. Since that partnership began, we've developed a broad spectrum of services, including local parcel consolidation and mine site delivery, LTL and truckload highway transportation, heavy haul transportation, railcar fleet management and railcar transportation services.

Our team works closely with contacts at each Rio Tinto site, providing the transportation management for all outbound shipping as well as much of the transportation for inbound equipment and repairs.

In order to reduce the number of expedite shipments and enhance safety at mining sites, we established a dedicated courier service to the mine locations that consolidates all parcel shipments, local pickups and suppliers as well as the daily mail service that delivers to the mines. This minimizes the number of outside vehicles entering the mine operations and ensures the operator of the vehicle is fully trained in operating safety requirements.

We currently oversee overdimensional and overweight transportation, both inbound and outbound, via highway and rail. Through working with the operating site personnel, we plan and execute each move to meet the specific needs of Rio Tinto and keep their sites as efficient and safe as possible. 

BNSF Railway invests billions of dollars in the maintenance and emergency repair of their worldwide infrastructure. Renovations and repairs consume large quantities of heavyweight and overdimensional commodities, while also necessitating the site delivery of repair equipment to job sites to make the required repairs or revisions.

We currently manage the total transportation need for these projects, including the support equipment and supplies for the crew's needs. Shipments encompass everything from LTL shipments of bottled water for the crew, expedited shipments of parts and components, flatbed shipments of pre-fabricated sections of rail and heavy haul deliveries of major construction components. All of these shipments are coordinated closely with the contractors and supervisors.

Emergencies can and do happen, and it requires quick responsiveness on a 24-hour basis as well as the ability to acquire non-standard transportation services for expediting components to the job site. In the event of a derailment, we arrange for the prompt rental and delivery of storage trailers to job sites for projection of salvageable commodities and eventual transportation to disposition sites.

We operate under strict time constraints to obtain capacity as quickly as possible in order to help rail routes open faster and efficiently, helping business stay on the right track. 

We began working with wind turbine power generator manufacturer Gamesa in 2009, managing the rail and over-the-road transportation of components from the part and manufacturers to support the development of a new wind farm in Illinois.

After receiving the imported parts from the Port of Houston, TX, we completed the delivery of 147 wind components to a nine-acre transloading site, where they were loaded onto railcars. Our in-house engineering team crated a detailed plan of where each component would be stowed in the distribution operation.

As the components arrived, they were transloaded off the railcar and either stowed in the yard or directly loaded onto outbound trucks for delivery to the Illinois wind farm installation field. 

In 2008, we were selected by international freight-forwarder Martin Bencher to manage the domestic transportation of wide-span intermodal container crane parts from a manufacturing plant in China to final U.S. job site deliveries. The parts were shipped from the Port of Houston, TX for final delivery to intermodal hubs in Memphis, TN and Gardner, TX, for assembly.

We were responsible for managing the transloading, stevedoring, lashing and securing, as well as final transportation and unloading of the of the crane parts. The project included overseeing 22 rail flatcars and six flatbed truck moves, all efficiently managed to meet Martin Bencher's needs.