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CJ Logistics America is expanding its temperature-controlled warehousing footprint and capabilities, starting with the launch of a 206,000 sq ft warehouse in Nashville, TN, serving the Southeast market. The Nashville facility, due to open in early 2024, will have multiple temperature zones, refrigerator to freezer, customized to meet customer needs. The building’s location on the I-40 corridor, near the Nashville International Airport, provides access to anywhere in the Nashville market, offering a solution for users with last-mile, local and southeast regional cold storage needs.
CJ Logistics Transportation is now providing comprehensive drayage services across Southern California, ensuring timely and efficient delivery of goods with a strong network of partners, including major ports and rail yards, years of industry experience, a deep understanding of Southern California’s logistics landscape and a team of seasoned professionals.
🎉🇺🇸 Let's Celebrate Independence Day while Keeping the Supply Chain Operations Running! 🚚✨ At CJ Logistics, we are proud to play a vital role in keeping America moving forward, especially during this festive season. 🎆🎇 Our dedicated team works tirelessly to ensure that goods and products reach their destinations efficiently and on time. 📦💨 This July 4th, as we celebrate freedom and independence, let's also take a moment to appreciate the hardworking individuals behind the scenes who make it all possible. 👏 Whether it's the truck drivers on the open road, the warehouse staff organizing shipments, or the customer service representatives providing assistance, we salute their commitment and perseverance. Together, let's make this Independence Day shine brighter than ever, as we celebrate the spirit of freedom while keeping our supply chain operations running seamlessly. 🎇🇺🇸
A day to recognize the importance of the logistics industry National Logistics Day, June 28, is a time to recognize and appreciate the important role of the logistics industry in the US and global economies. Across the country, in warehouses, distribution centers, offices and on the road, logistics professionals do the vital work involved in efficiently transporting, storing and distributing products – procurement, inventory management, packaging, transportation, warehousing, order fulfillment and more – linking manufacturers, suppliers, retailers and end-consumers. US business logistics costs now stand at a record $2.3 trillion, representing 9.1% of the national GDP, the highest percentage of GDP ever, according to the 2023 State of Logistics Report from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP). The State of Logistics Report, produced annually by global consulting firm Kearney, says that US supply chains responded to the global volatility from the past two years by transforming supply chain networks to improve resilience against future disruption.
Large-scale logistics centers will be built in strategic logistics and distribution hubs, including Chicago and New Jersey. CJ Logistics will provide the land for these centers, which collectively cover an area equal to 50 soccer fields, while KOBC will secure the necessary funding for the construction. The logistics centers are expected to serve as strategic hubs, facilitating import and export transloading as part of global, end-to-end supply chain solutions, and as an export forward base for South Korean companies to North America. The project is a first-of-its-kind public-private collaboration designed to expand the CJ Logistics North America supply chain. CJ Logistics is expanding and optimizing its operations model to meet local demand and respond to the needs of consumer goods and industrial materials markets.
CJ Logistics America’s team in Nazareth, PA, and the CJ Logistics Transportation team recently partnered with customer B&G Foods to deliver another truckload donation to City Harvest in Brooklyn, NY. The trailer carrying the donation of 40,000 cans of Green GiantTM corn also stopped by the Nederlander Theatre for a photo op with the cast of the hit musical comedy Shucked. During a curtain call, referencing the corn connection, the cast recognized the generous donation and the important efforts of City Harvest, New York’s first and largest food rescue organization.
CJ Logistics America has been selected as a Green Supply Chain Partner for 2023 by Inbound Logistics. CJ Logistics will be profiled in the June Sustainability edition of Inbound Logistics as one of the 75 leading companies to turn to when seeking green supply chain management and logistics partners. “Inbound Logistics editors have determined that these 75 honorees “walk the walk” when it comes to commitment to supply chain sustainability,” said Felecia Stratton, Editor, Inbound Logistics. “Given the global environment, it is truly an accomplishment this year.” CJ Logistics provides integrated supply chain services for customers around the world, maximizing customer value through continuous improvement and innovation.
Juneteenth, June 19, the newest federal holiday, is a nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, a group of enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, finally learned from a Union officer reading a federal order that they were free from the institution of slavery, almost two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Texas was the last of the Confederate states in which slavery continued, even though President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, and the Civil War ended on April 9, 1865. It took Union forces until June to reach Texas, the most remote state in the Confederacy, to enforce the federal order that ended slavery there. (The 13th Amendment adding the abolishment of slavery to the US Constitution passed Congress in January 1865 but wasn’t ratified and adopted until December 1865.)
At CJ Logistics America, we believe our world is better when diverse peoples and cultures come together to understand each other’s experiences and perspectives. We stand with our team members and all those who share in that vision of global community and diversity. We unite with compassion and truth to embrace diversity, uphold equality and collaborate to build a better future. We thank all of our team members for coming together in the spirit of Integrity, Passion, Creativity and Respect, day in and day out.
As National Forklift Safety Day 2023 is being observed today, CJ Logistics America’s annual Summer of Safety initiative is underway, renewing the company’s commitment to maintaining a safe workplace environment. Workplace safety is an everyday priority at CJ Logistics and the team understands how important it is to reinforce the message of forklift safety. “The safety and well-being of our forklift operators—of all CJ Logistics employees—is our highest priority,” said Joe Smiesko, Vice President, Safety, Security & Compliance. “We emphasize that it takes the whole team to focus on safety and work together to reduce the hazards observed while working, and we ask all employees to make safety a priority in everything they do.” National Forklift Safety Day, an annual event sponsored by the Industrial Truck Association (ITA), calls attention to the importance of forklift safety practices and operator training. A conference featuring experts from OSHA, forklift manufacturers, and an industrial safety consulting firm, hosted by the Industrial Truck Association (ITA) is the main event today.
