A&R Logistics is expanding its export services footprint with the opening of a new facility in the Ameriport Industrial Park in Baytown TX.
A&R currently operates three facilities in the same park totaling 800,000 square feet. A&R said it’s purchasing select operating assets and assuming the lease formerly held by Baytown Packhouse. The expansion marks A&R’s fifth facility opening in the last 10 months.
“This capacity expansion in the chemical heartland will further enable us to provide world-class export services and represents another milestone in the buildout of our 360-degree supply chain offering,” said Mark Holden, A&R CEO. “Demand from our customers for export services has grown considerably over the past few years. Our growth in Houston represents yet another example of A&R investing in solutions to better meet customer needs.”
By the end of 2020, A&R will operate six export packaging facilities with 13 state-of-the-art packaging lines, 3.6 million square feet of export warehousing space and the capacity to package more than 3,000 rail cars per month. The export expansion complements A&R’s domestic warehousing footprint that extends over 2.5 million square feet, with 2,000 rail car storage spots.
A&R’s export business provides a flexible and efficient supply chain offering that adds to the company’s domestic dry and liquid bulk transportation, warehousing, in-plant and 3PL suite of services. The company’s geographically diverse export services footprint provides customers with multi-port flexibility for their trade flows spanning the main U.S. chemical ports, including Houston, Savannah and Charleston.
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