The Team's Board Report - Mainfreight

13United StatesMainfreight USA (formerly Target Logistic Services)Chris CoppersmithNew Full Service FacilityOpened in Salt Lake City(SLC)The business is expanding once again with theopening of a full service facility in Salt Lake City,Utah.moving freight through Salt Lake City. Onetelephone call to Target opens the door to accessmarkets worldwide. The Salt Lake City terminal isequipped to handle every type of freight includinghi-tech components, equipment for aerospace,automobile parts, trade show material, retailset-ups and even nutritional beverage companies.The new Salt Lake City facility is linked to thecompany’s network of domestic and internationaloffices through an advanced IT system thatprovides almost instantaneous tracking andretrieval information for our customers.Visits to Shanghai and HongKongWe are responding to shippers in the Salt LakeCity area seeking expert, competitively pricedcargo services, and offering a complete rangeof varied international and domestic optionsincluding air, ocean and surface transportation,3PL inventory control, warehousing, reverselogistics and cargo management. We are alsoutilising the new Salt Lake City facility as a centrefor a network of distribution services to all regionsof the US in addition to all major internationaldestinations.The new facility, just minutes away from the SaltLake City Airport, is managed by Travis Lambros,a ten-year industry veteran whose professionalcareer has centred in the city by the Great SaltLake. He is aided by a team of experiencedsales and operational professionals who arefully knowledgeable in the cargo demands ofbusinesses throughout Utah.This past May George Frey, Vice PresidentSales & Marketing visited Mainfreight officesin Shanghai and Hong Kong to meet and greeteveryone to continue to establish excellentsales communications between the Mainfreightgroups. The goal during these meetings wasto discuss the transportation strengths as onecompany then moves forward capitalising onsales leads from both continents ultimatelycapturing new exciting business. George advised“I was very impressed with both the Shanghai andHong Kong organisations and could not wait toget back to the US and advise our team of theirexcellence”. Immediately we have exchangedsales leads for both air and ocean shipments, andgrowth will be a reality in these markets inboundand outbound.The new facility offers the entire range ofMainfreight supply chain services to customers