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What is Transloading and Why do it2
Transloading is the process of unloading freight from one mode of transportation to another as a shipment moves through the supply chain. This is often a required step in the shipping process. However, transloading can also be used to reduce storage costs,...
What is Transloading and Why do it? When does it fit?
Transloading is the process of unloading freight from one mode of transportation to another as a shipment moves through the supply chain. This is often a required step in the shipping process. However, transloading can also be used to reduce storage costs,...
“Totally off the Tracks” – Watch the Latest Video from the Keep Texas Trucking Coalition
Excargo President and CEO Marcia Faschingbauer Urges Lawmakers to Support Legislation to End Commercial Vehicle Lawsuit Abuse Excargo is proud to partner with groups such as Texans for Lawsuit Reform and the Keep Texas Trucking Coalition, who have made ending...
Excargo Celebrates Women’s History Month 2021
This Women’s History Month, we’re celebrating the achievements of women in transportation – women of all backgrounds breaking barriers in leadership roles and on the frontlines of the transportation sector. Excargo recognizes the women who have served our company and...
Excargo CEO Marcia Faschingbauer Elected to the Greater Houston Port Bureau’s Executive Board Committee
Excargo Joins Keep Texas Trucking Coalition to End Lawsuit Abuse
Excargo is proud to join Texas Trucking Association (TXTA), Texans for Lawsuit Reform (TLR), and a coalition of partners who have come together to form the Keep Texas Trucking Coalition—a group dedicated to developing legislative remedies to address the lawsuit abuse...
Excargo CEO Featured in “Women in Supply Chain and Logistics” Magazine
Excargo President and CEO Marcia Faschingbauer was recently featured in “Women in Supply Chains and Logistics,” a special edition magazine highlighting the supply chain and logistics technology program at the University of Houston. The article entitled, “Women Leading...
How Customers Can Stop the Threat to Container Efficiency
2019 is off to a worrisome start for the dray community. But it’s not the usual suspects. No, it’s not the driver shortage fomented by inflated pay from the oil fields, horrendous congestion, and increasing driver scrutiny. No, it’s not the long lines at the ports and...
Where Are All the Trucks?
In May, I was invited to speak at the Houston chapter of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) on my favorite subject, the shortage of dray trucks. Inefficiencies I smugly declared, “There is no shortage of dray trucks, just waste and misuse.”...
When Bigger Isn’t Always Better
With the advent of the mega ships such as Panamax and the Ultra Large Container Vessels (ULCV), shippers and logistics experts were all so excited. The thought of one ship holding 10,000 TEUs, 14,500 TEUs or even more promised untold efficiencies. This supersizing of...
Ship Channel Closure Update
About an hour ago, the Unified Command held a press conference at the La Porte Emergency Operations Center to update industry and the public on response efforts following yesterday’s collision of the M/V Carla Maersk and Conti Peridot. Captain Brian Penoyer, Sector...
Spotlight on Marcia Faschingbauer
Hard work and long hours are things Marcia Faschingbauer, President and CEO of Excargo Services, does not shy away from. Marcia has been working hard her entire life. Starting at her father’s food packing service, to now owning Excargo. Marcia has spent years building...
Excargo Services is a transportation logistics company that provides expert intermodal, drayage, transloading and warehouse solutions for major importers and exporters to and from the Port of Houston and area rail terminals in Texas and the bordering states.
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