"By providing multiple railroad and trucking options, the Des Moines Industrial Transloading Facility will be instrumental for Greater Des Moines' current and future business growth, particularly for manufacturing, logistics and distribution companies that need healthy supply chain connectivity," said Brian Crowe, executive vice president of Economic Development at the Greater Des Moines Partnership. Plans include 15,000 linear feet of track infrastructure, 115,000 square feet of traditional warehouse space, 8 acres of exterior storage capabilities, future cold storage and additional off-site close proximity warehousing opportunities. This will provide flexibility and reduced shipping costs to benefit area businesses and consumers with a potential economic impact of over $10 million annually. The planned facility will serve as a logistics park where bulk materials are transferred between semi-trailers and trains and vice versa. “We are even more enthusiastic to provide customers with the positive impacts of multi-railroad competition not recognized in any other third-party transloading facility in the State of Iowa.” “Our team brings decades of business development success in multiple industries and is enthusiastic to collaborate with the railroads’ marketing teams in conjunction with our own business development efforts” said Paul Cownie of Des Moines Industrial. It’s also just one mile from the nation’s busiest commercial trucking intersection of Interstates 35 and 80. Martin Luther King Jr Pkwy, the site has direct access to Iowa Interstate Railroad, Norfolk Southern and BNSF railroads, making it the premier rail-based transportation hub in Iowa. will start construction March 1 and the facility is expected to be operational by late 2021. 24, 2021) - Des Moines Industrial (DSMI) is poised to move forward with Iowa’s premier industrial transloading facility after recently acquiring 31 acres of land purchased from the City of Des Moines and Norfolk Southern. With the right man-power, packaging materials and pallets, we can turn this obstacle into a short pit stop.DES MOINES, Iowa (Feb. Our facilities are set up to minimize the handling and put your mind at ease. With operations in Savannah, GA, just a couple miles from the port, we are set up to make this transition as smooth as possible. Not to mention that you need it done quickly. To do this successfully, you need someone with the equipment and qualified personnel to handle the material. Transferring your goods from one mode to another always creates a risk for damage. This poses a problem because it needs structural stability to handle the bumps in the road. For many imports, product is floor-loaded, with no pallets or shrink wrap packaging. In addition, the product may need reworking for it’s transit over the road or on the high seas. Somewhere along the line, your product will need to be transferred to a truck, boat, plane or rail car. When shipping internationally, most of the time you cannot use a single mode of transportation.
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