Brookley International Distributors

Distribution

What is the most important quality for an international distributor to sustain? At Brookley International, we believe the answer lies in the most important aspects of international distribution: accessibility, shipment assurance, and cost effectiveness.
	Accessibility: Immediate access to sea, air, rail, and trucking routes covering the entire world. Shipment Assurance: State-of-the-art tracking and bar coding system. Cost Effectiveness: Quick conveyance between receipt of your product to the best and most cost effective method available to deliver your product to the end user.


Mobile's extensive transportation infrastructure keeps business on the move. Brookley International Distributing, LLC provides your company with excellent transportation access to major markets across the United States. Mobile's 300-year history as a port city and a 75-year old hub of the process industry has led our area to become a visible center of distribution. Mobile was named in LOGISTICS TODAY'S 2004 list of the best places for business that rely on logistics. Mobile's Container Terminal, a $300 million intermodal facility, has brought together ship, rail, truck, and air transportation modes into one continuous site. The transportation assets coupled with a strong favorable labor market and community-state-federal support make the Port of Mobile one of the nation's fastest growing ports. The Alabama State Port Authority is in the midst of over $400 million in port improvement programs, including the new $300 million Mobile Container Terminal, the $80 million McDuffie coal terminal expansion and enhancement program, and the new $26 million rail ferry terminal. The Alabama State Port Authority's terminals are connected to two interstate systems, I-10, which extends to the east to Jacksonville, Florida, and west to Los Angeles, California, and I-65, which extends from Mobile in a northerly direction to Chicago, Illinois. Major metropolitan areas such as Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Memphis, Nashville, Jacksonville, and Orlando, are all within 600 miles (or 10 hours) of Mobile. As a major manufacturing center and port city, Mobile offers competitive trucking for shippers. Regional and national trucking lines serve Mobile and operate terminals in the area.
	Five Class I railroads - CSX, Canadian National, Burlington Northern Santa Fe (AL & Gulf Coast Regions), Norfolk Southern, and Kansas City Southern serve our port. The Authority's facilities are also served by the G.C. Railway, which is a rail ferry service between Mobile and Coatzacoalcos, Mexico (Vera Cruz Region). The G.C. Railway links shippers every four days with all water and rail connection into Mexico's national railroad system. An average of 2500 rail cars pass through Mobile on a typical day. The Authority's terminals also connect to nearly 15,000 miles of inland and intracoastal(GIWW) waterways providing shippers with low cost water access to ports along the Gulf of Mexico, the Tennessee, the Ohio, and Upper Mississippi Rivers. Brookley's airport facilities feature two airports. Bates Field just west of the city is the primary commercial airport. Brookley Field airport serves Airborne Express, FedEx, UPS, and Emery Forwarding as a regional cargo hub. Brookley Field has a 9,600 foot long, 200 foot wide runway able to accommodate the largest aircraft flying today.