Transportation
AAA Cooper Transportation: AAA Cooper Transportation has 74 terminals in fourteen states and offers international shipping services. Distribution magazine named AAA Cooper one of the industry’s top-quality carriers as ranked by their customers.
AAA Cooper Transportation
Post Office Box 6827
Dothan, AL 36302
(800) 633-7571 Phone (334) 671-1507 Fax
www.aaacooper.com
Alabama State Port Authority: The Port of Mobile interconnects with major ports around the world and is the 14th largest port in the United States. It is served by 125 overseas shipping lines and by a dozen towing companies that serve the inland and coastal waterways. Four major railroads and over 70 trucking firms also serve the port facilities. Through its inland dock division, it also operates terminals at 10 locations along the state’s waterways.
Alabama State Port Authority
Post Office Box 1588
Mobile, AL 36633
334-441-7200 Phone 334-441-7216 Fax
www.asdd.com
Norfolk Southern Corporation: Norfolk Southern Corporation operates Norfolk Southern Railway Co., with rail classification yards in Birmingham and Sheffield in addition to several other U.S. cities. The railroad system's owned and operated lines extend over approximately 21,800 miles of road in 22 states, the District of Columbia and the Province of Ontario, Canada. NS operates the East's most extensive intermodal network and is the nation's largest rail carrier of automotive parts and finished vehicles.
Contact: David E. Thomas, Industrial Development Manager
dethomas@nscorp.com
Norfolk Southern Corporation
1400 Norfolk Southern Dr.
Birmingham, AL 35210
205-951-4749 Phone 205-951-8067 Fax
www.nscorp.com
Parker Towing Company, Inc.: Parker Towing has grown into one of the largest barge lines in the Southeast, launching the region's most powerful fleet of towboats, which serve the Black Warrior, Tennessee-Tombigbee, Tennessee, Cumberland and East Canal Waterways, as well as to points such as Minneapolis, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Houston.
Parker transports a variety of commodities such as coal, DRI, finished cement, cement clinker, metallic ores, petroleum and metallurgical cokes, aggregates, ferro-alloys, steel products, scrap metals, forest products, machinery and project cargo in a fleet of open and covered hopper barges. Shippers can also depend on Parker's terminals for the efficient intermodal transfer of their commodities. Parker Towing operates the following ports: Birmingham Marine Terminal - Birmingham, AL; Northport State Docks - Northport, AL; Pickens County Port - Pickensville, AL; Port of Nickajack - South Pittsburg, TN; Centre South Port - Chattanooga, TN; Naheola Port - Naheola, AL; and Mobile Shipbuilding - Mobile, AL.
Parker Towing Company, Inc.
Tim Parker III, National Sales Representative
PO Box 20908
Tuscaloosa, AL 35402
205-391-1131 Telephone
www.parkertowing.com
Thompson Tractor Company, Inc.: Thompson Tractor Company, Inc. is the full-line Caterpillar dealer for Alabama and northwest Florida and the Caterpillar forklift dealer for central and northern Georgia. The company specializes in sales and service of Caterpillar products, including earthmoving, construction and material handling equipment, and diesel and natural gas engines and gas turbines. Founded by Hall W. Thompson in 1957, the company is headquartered in Birmingham.
Thompson Tractor Company, Inc.
Post Office Box 10367
Birmingham, AL 35202
205-849-4300 Phone 205-849-4936 Fax
www.thompsontractor.com