The Freightway

This article originally ran in The Supply Chain Brain on Feb. 6, 2023.  By Mary Lamie, Executive Director of St. Louis Regional Freightway. The supply chain disruptions that have rocked the logistics industry over the past few years have made one thing abundantly clear: Infrastructure investment and innovation are key to supply chain resilience and efficiency. It takes both to […]

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This article originally ran in The St. Louis Business Journal on Feb. 21, 2023.  Refresco, a Netherlands-based beverage bottler, is bolstering its presence locally with plans to invest $22 million to expand its production facility in Warren County. The company said Monday it will invest $22 million to boost production at its manufacturing plant in Truesdale, Missouri, located about an […]

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This article originally ran in The St. Louis Post Dispatch on Feb. 17, 2023.   Boeing added hundreds to its St. Louis-area workforce last year, with an eye toward the next generations of defense aircraft. The company added 900 jobs in the region in 2022. Many were engineers, who will be needed as the company shifts to future products, Steve Nordlund, […]

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This article originally ran in The St. Louis Post Dispatch on Feb. 13, 2023.  Facing a worker shortage, companies in the St. Louis region are working in new ways with local schools to build a pipeline of students who can eventually fill open jobs in manufacturing and the trades. The companies are starting new programs and growing existing ones, and […]

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This article originally ran on St. Louis Business Journal on Feb. 8, 2023.  Ferguson-based Emerson Electric (NYSE: EMR) will keep its headquarters in St. Louis, the company said Wednesday. Emerson’s announcement, which came as it shared financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2023, comes after it announced in October it has sold its headquarters in Ferguson and would search […]

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This article originally ran in the Illinois.Gov on Monday, February 6, 2023.  ___________________________________________________________________________________ Governor Pritzker today joined state and local leaders, along with the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO), the Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives (CNI), and Intersect Illinois in Pullman to announce $40 million in Rebuild Illinois Capital Funds to supercharge the development of megasites – large, developed sites […]

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This article originally ran in the St. Louis Post Dispatch on February 5, 2023.  The Page and 141 area of Maryland Heights saw no development for decades. Within a span of four years, it’s slated to be fully built out as demand for warehouse space soars. The area is a prime target as one of the last developable swaths of […]

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This article originally ran in the Site Selection Magazine in January.  In August of 2022, Governor Pritzker announced that under Rebuild Illinois, the Illinois Department of Transportation, had made more than $8.6 billion in improvements to some 4,422 miles of highway and 412 bridges. “Rebuild Illinois has undertaken a massive transformation of our state’s transportation systems” says Pritzker. “And not […]

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This article originally ran in Fox2 News Now on Jan. 31, 2023.  As the next generation of General Motors midsize trucks rolled off the assembly line last week, executives offer praise for the recent accomplishments of the Wentzville plant. “We take great pride in the fact people have confidence in us to execute these things,” Lamar Rucker, the plant’s executive […]

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This article originally ran in the St. Louis Post Dispatch on Jan. 18, 2023.  In a 50-minute address to lawmakers, Parson called on the House and Senate to approve $859 million to add lanes on the highway from Wentzville to Warrenton in the St. Louis region, while also widening parts of the thoroughfare in Columbia and suburban Kansas City. A […]

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This article originally ran in the St. Louis Business Journal on Jan. 24, 2023.  The next generation of General Motors Co.’s pick-up trucks rolled off the assembly line for the first time on Tuesday at the Wentzville plant, the culmination of a $1.5 billion investment that the automaker made to the truck line and upgrades to the assembly plant. GM added […]

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This article originally ran in the Waterways Journal on Jan. 6, 2023.  A local developer is building a new speculative warehouse at the site of two demolished hotels in St. Louis County. Creve Coeur-based developer Bamboo Equity Partners is building a 76,500-square-foot warehouse called 270 Trade Center on 6.3 acres at 3655 and 3657 Pennridge Drive in Bridgeton. Construction on the […]

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This article originally ran in the Waterways Journal on Jan. 6, 2023.  The main lock at Mel Price Locks and Dam closed January 3 as a crew from Alberici Constructors Inc. began work to dismantle and rebuild two observation structures called overlooks that hang over each side of the main lock. The work is preparatory to the replacement of the lock’s […]

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This article originally ran on Fox2Now.com on Jan. 10, 2023.  An ongoing expansion at the Tyson Foods plant in Caseyville, Illinois will lead to 400 new jobs. On Tuesday, the company updated its workforce projections for the enhanced facility. At present, the Caseyville prepared foods facility employs more than 300 people.

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This article originally ran in the American Journal of Transportation on Dec. 2, 2022.  The directors from five busy airports in the St. Louis region say the collaboration that takes place amongst their airports is unique in the aviation industry and a model for success — accounting for more than 36,500 jobs (between airport operations and tenants) and generating a […]

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The St. Louis region marked a series of major milestones in 2022 that enhanced the bi-state area’s freight network at a time when the supply chain disruptions were the norm and the need for resiliency and redundancy has never been greater. From the lingering effects of COVID-19 to the historic drought that severely impacted barge traffic on the Mississippi River, […]

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This article originally ran in the St. Louis Business Journal on Dec. 16, 2022.  Anheuser-Busch on Friday announced the opening of a new technical training center at its St. Louis campus. The more than $5 million investment adds eight jobs to the brewer’s St. Louis-based learning and development team, bringing the total number of employees on the team to 12, officials […]

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This article originally ran in the St. Louis Business Journal on Dec. 19, 2022.  Chesterfield-based agriculture giant Bunge Ltd. (NYSE: BG) plans to build a $550 million manufacturing facility as part of its continued focus on producing ingredients for plant-based proteins. It anticipates starting construction on the Morristown, Indiana, facility in the first quarter of 2023. Bunge said its new plant […]

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This article originally ran in the Waterways Journal on Nov. 28, 2022.  A lot has changed in the years since Robert Sinkler, former commander of the Rock Island Engineer District, began his efforts to persuade terminals and ports on the Upper Mississippi River and along the Illinois River to band together in statistical port districts. Local business and civic leaders now […]

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The St. Louis Regional Freightway recently had the privilege of hosting the first-ever Supply Chain Information Highway Ports Summit at our headquarters office located in downtown St. Louis. Representatives included the Port of New York/New Jersey, Port of Long Beach, Port of Miami, Port of Hueneme, Port of Oakland, South Carolina Ports Authority, The Northwest Seaport Alliance along with their […]

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