Shippers Find The Marine Highway An Ideal Supply Chain Choice, Industry Leaders to Discuss at North American Marine Highways & Logistics Conference, April 6-7

NEWARK, N.J., Mar. 9/PRNewswire/ -- Shifting freight traditionally carried by road or rail to water routes can be an integral part of a cost-effective and energy-efficient intermodal supply chain. Industry leaders will discuss in depth the increasing benefits of marine highways at the Seventh Annual Journal of Commerce Marine Highways & Logistics Conference (LINK) in Baltimore, April 6-7, 2010.

Sonney Jones found that the best solution to a meandering supply-chain was a straight line -- across the Gulf of Mexico.

Jones is the division director for transportation at Dallas-based Dal Tile Corporation. Its supply chain to the East Coast was a tangle of trucks, trains and ocean carriers, he said, until the company partnered with SeaBridge Freight.

SeaBridge Freight is one of the pioneers on America’s marine highways and operates vessels between the ports of Brownsville, Texas, and Tampa, Fla. Company founder Hank Hoffman brought his trucking background to the maritime environment and worked with Dal Tile to streamline its logistics.

Jones and Hoffman will join an outstanding list of speakers at the Seventh Annual Journal of Commerce Marine Highways & Logistics Conference (LINK), April 6-7, 2010, at the Conference Center at the Maritime Institute near Baltimore. The event will illustrate for shippers how use of marine highways – moving freight by water that is traditionally carried by road or rail -- can be an integral part of a cost-effective, energy-efficient and sustainable intermodal supply chain.