How CRMS Managed a Full Fleet Transition for a Gulf Coast Petrochemical Shipper
Result 150 cars transitioned in 3 weeks. Cleaning, inspection, remarking — one team.
- 150 tank cars
- Cleaning, Inspection, Remarking & Stenciling
- 3 weeks
- Petrochemical
The Challenge
A major Gulf Coast petrochemical shipper was ending a long-term lease on 150 tank cars and simultaneously onboarding a new fleet under a different service agreement. The outgoing cars needed to be cleaned, inspected, and returned to the lessor in compliant condition. The incoming cars needed cleaning, inspection, and remarking before they could enter service.
The transition window was three weeks. The shipper had two production lines depending on the incoming fleet being ready on time. Managing two simultaneous fleets — one going out, one coming in — across multiple service providers was a coordination problem they didn't have the internal bandwidth to handle.
They needed a single partner who could own the whole transition.
The CRMS Solution
CRMS took on the full scope: cleaning and inspection of the 150 outgoing cars for compliant lease return, and cleaning, inspection, and remarking of the incoming fleet to the shipper's new service specifications — running both programs concurrently.
We deployed crews across two of our Gulf-region fixed-base locations and coordinated car movements between facilities to keep both programs on parallel tracks. Remarking and stenciling was handled by our in-house CRS team, which eliminated the lag time that comes from outsourcing that work to a third party.
The shipper's outgoing fleet was returned to the lessor on time and in full compliance. The incoming fleet was in service before the production deadline. Three weeks. One point of contact. No coordination gaps.
The Results
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"Coordinating a 150-car lease return and a new fleet onboarding at the same time is a logistical nightmare if you're managing multiple vendors. Having CRMS own the whole thing was the only reason we hit our deadline."