I love Savannah & beBee.com by Bill Stankiewicz , Savannah Supply Chain

From Wikipedia:

beBee is a Collaborative Platform for Professionals founded by serial-entrepreneurs Javier Cámara and Juan Imaz.[2] The network was created to allow people to showcase and share their personal brand and market themselves to employers, clients, customers, vendors and media in their respective industries. beBee allows users to network with each other through common personal and professional interests,[3] uniting their personal and professional lives in one place.[4]

The startup was established in February 2015, and originally launched in English, Spanish and Portuguese before expanding in French, Italian, German and Russian in 2016. beBee has more than 11.5 million users and is aiming to have 40 million users by 2018.[5]

In August 2016 beBee was selected as a future Unicorn startup.[

I have enjoyed working with beBee because of the hundreds of folks I have met over the last 9 months.  It is a great platform where your business or hobbies can be shared very easily. There are so many great people on beBee that are positive & very helpful.  

The platform concentrates on matching professionals who have mutual interests and skill sets to help build business relationships, rather than just contacts. BeBee is about professional networking through personal interests and hobbies.

In this digital age, we are finally realizing the importance of personalization and niching down. Javier has discovered that our interests are generating much more professional engagement and better business opportunities on the platform. 

 

Online, users have traditionally lived a double life, with Jekyll and Hyde characteristics. We all know someone with two Twitter accounts--one for the home persona and another with their template corporate beliefs. We have finally evolved to a position where we can stop playing games and allow our genuine personality shine.

The beBee platform encourages users to display their personal brand in addition to their professional profile. It's time to give potential employers an opportunity to see the whole person and not just a digitized representation of their resume. 

But lets chat about Savannah & our continuing growth.  Savannah’s ocean ports feature skyscraping silver cranes that stand at attention on the water’s edge. Container ships stretch the length of four football fields, with 40-foot containers stacked behind them like multicolored Lego bricks.

But an empty patch of freshly bulldozed dirt is the first spot at the sprawling Garden City Terminal that Griffith Lynch, the executive director of the GPA-Georgia Ports Authority wants to show off.

That is the site of a new $127 million rail depot that will enable double-decker trains as long as the National Mall to be loaded right at the port. It is one piece of a larger vision that Mr. Lynch contends Savannah is uniquely positioned to achieve: Shippers here will be able to deliver goods to Midwestern cities in the time it takes other ports to finish heaving cargo off a boat.

The salesmanship is not just boasting. The nation’s fourth-busiest gateway, the state-run Savannah port has tripled its traffic since 2000, bathing the region in tens of thousands of jobs. It has helped draw the manufacturing operations of foreign automakers to the region, and has a reputation for big ideas and nitty-gritty efficiency.  

The excerpts below are from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210539516300335

“Savannah has become a magnet for containers,” said Walter Kemmsies, an economist at Jones Lang LaSalle, who has advised more than a dozen American ports on development.

Savannah does have a few distinct assets, among them location. Its southern latitude disguises just how far west the shipping channel reaches — far enough to catch a plumb line dropped from Cleveland.  Another is that in Savannah, unlike other major ports in the country that lease to different terminal operators, the ports authority runs the whole show.

One of the packing and sorting areas is at PortFresh Logistics.  Where Bill Stankiewicz helped train the staff in Food Safety, Inventory Control & Forklift Training with certification.  The main customers include Walmart & the facility is also a grading & packing facility. Savannah Port location makes it easier to get containers from Point A to Point B. Truckers have a single check-in point when they enter and exit, and 9,700 feet of contiguous docking space. Several ships can dock on the same day, and the mechanics, crane operators and drivers working directly for the port can be quickly deployed where they are most needed.

In New Jersey, for instance, a trucker might make only one trip if the ship unloads at rush hour, Mr. Kemmsies said. In Savannah, warehouse owners said truckers can average four to six. " The truckers make money here" per Bill Stankiewicz, Managing Director with Savannah Supply Chain. See www.savannahsupplychain.com 

The period from 2007 through 2016 saw little change in the fundamentals of port governance in the United States. Instead, increased competition resulting from the consolidation of the ocean carrier industry, a slower forecast for U.S. container trade growth, port congestion on the U.S. West Coast and the potential for shifting trading lanes from an expanded Panama Canal became the predominant force driving change in the U.S. port industry. Recognizing the competitive threats, the U.S. government responded through increased funding, greater agency engagement, modest reform of the harbor maintenance tax and legislation regarding the establishment and reporting of port performance metrics. State governments invested and took steps to position their ports to withstand increased competition. At the local level, ports responded through strategic collaborations and by shifting from traditional landlord roles to supply chain participants. The West Coast Ports exhibit greater efforts at strategic collaboration than the East Coast Ports that are actively competing for cargo through an expanded Panama Canal. Some East Coast port investment is speculative and out of scale with market and financial conditions. The potential of over-investment, stranded assets or market share losses could drive more ports to consider regional collaboration, governance changes or creative leasing strategies to facilitate terminal collaboration to enhance their market power.

Georgia growth continues with warehouse developments & new facilities coming online weekly. Its exciting hearing from new customers & suppliers with questions on where to locate my products. I am very fortunate to live in a great vibrant & growing city here in Savannah. I sit on several business Boards that include Coastal WorkSource Investment-reports into the Savannah Mayors Office, STC-Savannah Traffic Club, APICS-American Production Inventory Control Society, 1 Million Cups-Organizer & supporting the efforts of GMA-Georgia Manufacturing Alliance where the CEO is Jason Moss. I have also been working on helping to support & pass Business Bills such as Housebill 451. Working with these business groups provides me with insight to new business trends & developments. 

If you have any question about logistics or beBee call me at any time on 1-404-750-3200.  I am here to help & advise anyone here.

Thank You For Reading,

Bill Stankiewicz