Rail Market: Rolling Right Along in 2021
June 3, 2021
By Mark R. Smith, Contributing Writer
For Mike Mullis, knowing when to pop The Big Question when advising a client during the site selection process is very simple.
“The first question a site selector asks any company,” said Mullis, president of Memphis-based J.M. Mullis Inc., is “Do you really need onsite rail?”
“If they say, ‘It would be nice, but it’s not a mandate,’” he said, “they don’t really need it. Many companies are under the general impression that rail saves transportation costs, but that’s not always tru...
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