A. Duie Pyle bets on port-adjacent LTL hub near Port of Virginia

A. Duie Pyle has purchased a 43-acre tract astatine Port 460 Logistics Center successful Suffolk, Virginia, wherever it plans to physique a combined less-than-truckload (LTL) cross-dock and warehouse installation adjacent the Port of Virginia — positioning itself person to instrumentality flows and determination organisation lanes, the institution said.

“Our enlargement successful the Suffolk–Norfolk marketplace reflects a strategical effect to the rapidly evolving demands of today’s proviso chain,” Frank Granieri, main commercialized serviceman astatine A. Duie Pyle, said successful a quality release. “By establishing this integrated warehouse and LTL work halfway adjacent the Port of Virginia, we’re addressing the request for much efficient, adaptive solutions that streamline operations successful a high-demand market.”

A. Duie Pyle is simply a privately held freight proscription and logistics institution based successful West Chester, Pennsylvania. It was founded successful 1924 and has grown into 1 of the largest determination LTL carriers successful the Northeast.

According to information from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, A. Duie Pyle operates astir 2,000 powerfulness units and employs much than 2,100 drivers crossed its network, logging much than 117 cardinal miles successful 2024.

The company’s halfway concern is LTL freight, with a dense work footprint crossed the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and parts of the Southeast. The bearer operates much than 30 work centers, enabling next-day and two-day sum crossed immoderate of the busiest freight corridors successful the country.

The Suffolk installation volition location a 52-door LTL cross-dock alongside 200,000 quadrate feet of warehouse space, expandable to 420,000 quadrate feet.

The installation volition enactment warehousing and distribution, transloading, LTL, declaration dedicated services, drayage and truckload brokerage. Pyle said the tract volition besides fortify connections into Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Ohio freight corridors, supporting its broader web that stretches from Virginia to Maine and westbound done Ohio.

The task is portion of the master-planned Port 460 Logistics Center, developed by Rockefeller Group and Matan Companies. Phase 1 of the parkland volition present 2.4 cardinal quadrate feet of concern abstraction crossed 5 buildings, with a 2nd signifier totaling 2.6 cardinal quadrate feet planned.

Construction is expected to beryllium completed successful the 2nd 4th of 2027. Pyle said the installation volition make an undisclosed fig of jobs successful its archetypal twelvemonth of operation, including warehouse workers and drivers, and volition lend to the region’s increasing logistics footprint.

“This concern highlights the assurance that manufacture leaders person successful Virginia’s presumption arsenic a premier logistics gateway connected the East Coast,” said Sarah McCoy, interim CEO and enforcement manager of the Virginia Port Authority.