{"id":143558,"date":"2023-06-29T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=143558"},"modified":"2023-06-28T12:55:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T16:55:05","slug":"hello-chicago-hello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=143558","title":{"rendered":"“Hello, Chicago, hello!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Another hit for the Midwest’s biggest city. Sweet home Chicago has completed a cargo terminal expansion at O’Hare which should help cargo transfers and freight forwarders who use it (meaning pretty much everyone) at a new 132,000 square foot addition to the freight facility. Worldwide Freight Services has already moved in and started operations in the building flanked by pads large enough to park two 747-8 cargo liners. Wow! That’s a lot of airplane and freight space – my feeble memory says a cargo 747 handles roughly 27\u00a0 forty-foot containers of freight? So we’re talking a bunch.<\/p>\n

WFS announced in early June that it had signed a 15-year lease with developer Realterm to run the quick-turn warehouse at one of the nation\u2019s largest passenger and cargo gateways. The new facility increases WFS\u2019 cargo capacity at O\u2019Hare airport by more than 10%. The provider of airport ground services controls three other transit centers with a combined footprint of nearly 600,000 square feet, not including space subleased from an airline tenant. The new building on the northeast quadrant of the airport is flanked by about 200,000 square feet of ramp space that can accommodate two large freighters the size of a Boeing 747-8.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then there’s the rub… the city is weeks behind on actually completing the taxiways to the facility.<\/p>\n

Congestion at O\u2019Hare is also down, but logistics companies still complain about pinch points from outdated building infrastructure, inadequate road and receiving areas for trucks, labor shortages and limited digital communications between stakeholders.<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s Aviation Department declined to provide anyone who could discuss the significance of the new project or why the path connecting the parking area and runway is delayed.<\/p>\n

Realterm originally said it planned to invested $56 million in the new building and ramp, which includes solar panels and chargers for electric forklift vehicles and required major excavation and site preparation. The price is believed to have escalated significantly since 2021. Marketing Director Sophia Stuart declined to provide an updated figure of the development cost.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yahoo<\/a><\/p>\n

Nothing like hitting your schedule, huh… brand new facility all dressed up and ready for the airplanes to pah-tee and the airplanes can’t get to it.<\/p>\n

Bonus points if you correctly identify the quote in the title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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