Ken Kellaway to Obtain 2022 Connie Award From The Containerization & Intermodal Institute
The Containerization and Intermodal Institute will award the 2022 Connie Award to Ken Kellaway, Co-Founder, President and CEO of RoadOne IntermodaLogistics, Inc. The award presentation can be made at an industry-wide luncheon Monday, December 5, 2022 on the Renaissance Lodge in Elizabeth, NJ.
The occasion, marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Connie Award, can even honor Washington D C.-based worldwide transportation lawyer Jeffrey Lawrence of Cozen O’Connor with its Lifetime Achievement Award.
The announcement was made by Steven Blust, CII President. “Ken Kellaway represents the true entrepreneurial spirit that has fostered the innovation of the final 60 years of the provision chain {industry}. Jeff Lawrence’s stellar authorized profession has touched on each side of containerization and intermodalism,” mentioned Mr. Blust. “We’re lucky to have the ability to honor them each on this historic 12 months.”
Ken Kellaway, with greater than 35 years within the intermodal logistics house, is answerable for the general management, imaginative and prescient, technique, development and growth of RoadOne IntermodaLogistics. RoadOne is the nation’s main supplier of port and rail drayage and associated companies with over 2,100 vans at 90 terminals, in addition to three million sq. toes of transload and distribution house. Ken has led the event of RoadOne’s devoted options enterprise offering long run dedicated property to purchasers in transloading, devoted fleet operations, in addition to yard and chassis administration applications.
Mr. Kellaway additionally based and created the imaginative and prescient for Kinimatic, a frontrunner in asset mild warehousing, distribution, and eCommerce success. Extra just lately, Mr. Kellaway co-founded collaborative port logistics platform EDRAY in hopes of mitigating lots of the points present in trendy port logistics. He has been an advocate for honest driver therapy all through his career- with an upcoming nationwide TV section pushing the American individuals to indicate the motive force base the appreciation they deserve.
A real entrepreneur, Mr. Kellaway has not solely based a number of nationwide companies within the house, however has confirmed to be the lead acquirer in intermodal logistics with greater than 30 firms bought all through his profession.
Jeff Lawrence is co-chair of the Worldwide Follow on the nationwide legislation agency of Cozen O’Connor. Till this 12 months, Mr. Lawrence led the Transportation and Commerce Follow Group at Cozen for 12 years. Previous to his becoming a member of the Cozen agency, Mr. Lawrence was a founding accomplice within the Washington DC maritime legislation agency of Sher & Blackwell, which merged into Cozen in 2010.
In his legislation observe, Mr. Lawrence has targeted on the regulatory, company and worldwide points offered by the intermodal transport, marine terminal, and container delivery {industry}. A specific point of interest of his legislation observe has been discovering methods to realize efficiencies via {industry} cooperation.
Mr. Lawrence additionally serves as Government Director of the Ocean Service Tools Administration Affiliation (OCEMA), an affiliation of ten world containership carriers involved with intermodal operational and security issues. OCEMA is maybe greatest recognized for creating regional “gray” cooperative chassis swimming pools in a number of key intermodal markets. These swimming pools, managed by an OCEMA subsidiary, Consolidated Chassis Administration LLC (CCM), had been the primary regional interoperable gray swimming pools within the US and represented a groundbreaking strategy that led to basic {industry} change in chassis administration practices. The swimming pools dramatically lowered system prices, improved security, elevated tools utilization, freed up important terminal actual property, and lowered carbon emissions related to extreme tools repositioning. Mr. Lawrence was a key participant in creating the OCEMA pool idea, securing the authorized approvals for identical, and initiating the primary pilot tasks in Norfolk, Tampa, and Denver. He additionally oversaw the administration of the primary OCEMA swimming pools. The OCEMA swimming pools have at numerous instances managed between 15% and 20% of the intermodal marine chassis fleet within the US.
Mr. Blust famous than some 70 individuals and organizations have been honored with the Connie since 1972 when Jacques LeBlanc, then president of the Dart Line consortium made up of a gaggle of northern European ocean carriers, was offered with the primary award, now thought-about essentially the most coveted honor within the discipline of containerization and its ancillary industries. Amongst recipients to this point are Gene Seroka, Malcom McLean, James McKenna, Robert McEllrath, Ed DeNike, John Wolfe, Bruce Fenimore, Helen Bentley, Captain S.Y. Kuo, Matthew Cox, Invoice Shea and Mike Wilson.
On the occasion, CII will perform its {industry} training mission by presenting scholarships to college students learning logistics in addition to the establishments which can be educating our future leaders. Below its auspices, CII has awarded some $1 million towards scholarships. Corporations have the chance to assist ongoing {industry} training by buying scholarships via CII, beginning at $1,000. To be taught extra about funding a named scholarship to your group, please name CII Government Director, Lisa Aurichio at 917-476-8366 or electronic mail data@containerization.org.
The CII Connie Awards luncheon is $275 per ticket and seating is restricted. Sponsorships for the occasion and tickets can be found right here. For extra info, contact Ms. Aurichio at lisa@bsya.com or the CII group at (732) 817-9131 or data@containerization.org.
