To our Valued Customers & Suppliers, During this period of unprecedented disruption to our businesses and our lives, we want you to know that ICAT remains here for you, fully staffed and operational. We will do our best to support your needs throughout the global coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, as we navigate through sudden changes to the world’s transportation and logistics systems. We know that delivering essential supplies is more critical than ever to our health and our economy. That’s…
Quick Thinking Helps Chinese Company Make Seamless Entry to U.S. Market At ICAT Logistics DTW, we know how to solve problems – and help new businesses make a great first impression. You need only ask executives of a China-based startup – new to the U.S. market – who made an urgent call to us on the eve of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Their concern: No arrangements had been made to move prototypes of their robotic vans from a delivery truck to the floor of Detroit’s Cobo Center. Time was of the essence. The prototypes were arriving…
Getting Hitched without a Hitch Our website and catalog of successful case studies typically spotlight the kind of work that we’re most often called upon to do: Moving big, heavy complex shipments across borders and around the world. It took a New York-based wedding planner to figure out that if we could handle the movement and reassembly of manufacturing equipment from Argentina to Mexico, maybe we could manage the logistics for a high-profile destination wedding in St. Bart’s. Instead of crating up a stamping press or door…
Our White Glove Solution to a Full Color Problem The problem was alarming, and expensive: Sensitive color printing systems shipped from the Far East were damaged before reaching a final destination in the United States. The customer need was clear: Find a solution. Quickly. And guarantee future results. The team at ICAT Logistics DTW responded with swift precision, tracing the process, isolating the cause of the damage and implementing a customized solution. Our troubleshooting determined that the equipment – secured in boxes six-feet-high…
OPEN LETTER RE COVID-19 To our Valued Customers & Suppliers, During this period of unprecedented disruption to our businesses and our lives, we want you to know that ICAT remains here for you, fully staffed and operational. We will do our best to support your needs throughout the global coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, as we navigate through sudden changes to the world’s transportation and logistics systems. We know that delivering essential supplies is more critical than ever to our health and our economy. That’s…
The Right Stuff: The Story Behind Our Silver Anniversary It takes special ingredients – and special people – to deliver the success and growth that distinguish the ICAT Logistics Detroit office. Today’s company traces its roots to a four-person suburban Detroit office opened in 1994 by Dan Cser as the first agency in the Baltimore-based ICAT Logistics network. The network was created the previous year by Rick Campbell, a friend and former colleague of Cser. Since its founding, the network has expanded to 19 agencies that serve the needs of domestic…
Courage and Compassion Go the Distance with America’s Truckers America’s truckers have precious cargo on board. But it’s not the kind you can pack in a crate or stack on a pallet. Sharing the ride are values that – every day – enrich the quality of life on America’s highways. Among those: compassion, courage, good will, patriotism, citizenship and self-sacrifice. At ICAT Logistics DTW, like the rest of the freight industry, we hear and read about truckers whose voluntary good deeds helped someone in need out on the road. Some examples from the past…
