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View PresentationColumbia Coastal Transport, LLC – Liberty Corner, NJ
Columbia Group of Companies
Columbia Group of Companies is comprised of three transportation specialty businesses as well as a leasing company. They include: Columbia Intermodal, the trucking arm; Columbia Leasing; Columbia Container Services, a depot operator for major terminal operators, and Columbia Coastal Transport, the premier U.S.-flag container barge operator which operates numerous container barges in regular feeder services linking multiple U.S. ports on the Atlantic Seaboard as well as Freeport, Bahamas and Cuba on inducement.
Kevin Mack, vice president Business Development, Columbia Coastal Transport, is responsible for seeking out business opportunities and synergies among the Columbia Group companies including Columbia Coastal Transport, Columbia Intermodal and Columbia Container Services.
Mack has more than 25 years of experience in the maritime and logistics industries, starting with Sea-Land Service where he worked from 1980 to1999 in increasingly responsible sales management positions based in New York, New Jersey and Boston.
In 1999 he joined American President Lines (APL) as director of European Trade Lanes and Director of Refrigerated Markets for all of North America. From there he went to Panalpina where he served as vice president of the company’s Wines and Spirits business unit for North America.
Prior to joining Columbia Coastal in 2007, Mack worked with Hanjin Logistics as vice president Sales and Marketing for the North America logistics group.
Mr. Mack is based in the company’s Liberty Corner, NJ headquarters.
