Moves – Page 2 – The Dispatch Now

Watco Supply Chain Services serves final mile for Staples Office Supplies

July 19, 2019

WSCS provides a link between the Staples fulfillment center and the Staples end customer. WSCS Team Members unload, sort, scan, and stage trailers of Staples freight. WSCS facility managers then coordinate con...

EIRR and Burley Warehouse team up to help two Customers

Jay Benedict

July 10, 2019

Moves

Commodity: Recycled Cardboard Customers: WestRock and Hamilton Manufacturing Location: Burley, Idaho Warehouse and the Eastern Idaho Railroad Watco’s Burley, Idaho Warehouse and the Eastern Idaho Railroa...

Watco Supply Chain assists other Watco service divisions

Jay Benedict

June 27, 2019

Moves

Commodity: Crane Customer: Watco Terminal & Ports Services Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Houston, Texas One of Watco’s newest offices is in Joplin, Missouri, and houses a new branch of Watco Su...

Houston Team handles helitanker

Blog Admin

June 5, 2019

Moves

The Watco Houston Team temporarily housed a helpful, life-saving piece of equipment in early May. The Sikorsky - Erickson S-64 helicopter made its way to the Houston docks at Greens Port Industrial Terminals f...

Watco Moves – Heavy Lifts in Houston

Jay Benedict

March 14, 2019

Moves

Greens Port Industrial Terminals (GPIT) sees plenty of vessels carrying a variety of bulk products and break-bulk products like steel pipes and coils. Most of the time, unloading them is fairly straight-forward...

Unique agreement takes Watco operations into Canada

Tracie VanBecelaere

December 12, 2018

Moves

As of November 1, 2018, Watco can say they manage rail operations in Canada. Watco is now responsible for the management of all aspects of the operations of the Stewart Southern Railway (SSS), a short line rail...

Oshkosh Transload Terminal is open for business

Tracie VanBecelaere

June 15, 2018

Moves

The City of Oshkosh, the Greater Oshkosh Economic Development Corporation, and Watco Companies recently hosted a ribbon cutting at a new terminal facility in Oshkosh, Wisconsin’s Southwest Industrial Park. Watc...

Watco helps CBH Group transport record grain train in Western Austrailia

Jay Benedict

April 27, 2018

Moves

Just over a week ago, Watco Western Australia and our Customer and partner, CBH Group, broke the record for the longest and largest grain train ever operated on the continent. The 1.8 kilometer, or 1.1 mile,...

Watco winterizes Wisconsin

Jay Benedict

January 5, 2018

Moves

Most of the Eastern U.S. has been battered by artic cold, snowstorms, and flooding, and that’s deservedly gotten plenty of media coverage. However, in the northern Midwest, Wisconsin is also exper...

Circus cars head to final home via the WSOR

Tracie VanBecelaere

August 3, 2017

Moves

Although the The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus took its last official run down the tracks in May, that doesn't mean that the cars would never be on the rails again. Proof of that was seen on the...