Florida East Coast Railway, LLC, Announces Blalock as General Manager - Intermodal...
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Florida East Coast Railway, LLC, Announces Blalock as General Manager -
Intermodal Operations and Rountree as General Manager - Transportation
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida East Coast Railway,
LLC, (FEC), today announced the appointment of Wayne Blalock as FEC's General
Manager - Intermodal Operations and Tommy Rountree as FEC's General Manager -
Transportation.
Previously, Blalock was responsible for FEC's operations in South Florida
while Rountree handled FEC's North Florida business. In their new roles, each
will have system-wide responsibilities for their respective functions.
Mr. Blalock will be responsible for all FEC intermodal operations
including the management of intermodal equipment, all intermodal ramp
locations, and FEC Highway Services drayage operations, as well as the
company's Hialeah Automobile Unloading Facility.
Mr. Rountree will have responsibility for all of FEC's train operations,
including road, yard and terminal functions and all transportation employees,
as well as service design.
Both will report to Steve Truitt, who recently joined FEC as Vice
President. In addition to Mr. Blalock and Mr. Rountree, Chief Engineer Bob
Stevens and Chief Mechanical Officer Bobby Hatfield will comprise the Senior
Management team reporting to Mr. Truitt.
About Florida East Coast Railway, LLC, and RailAmerica, Inc
Both FEC and RailAmerica are owned by funds managed by affiliates of
Fortress Investment Group, a leading global alternative asset manager with
approximately $37.8 billion in assets under management as of December 31,
2007. RailAmerica is a leading operator of North American regional and
shortline railroads. RailAmerica operates 41 railroads in 23 states and 3
Canadian provinces and has information available on developable sites of
various sizes on each of the railroads it operates. FEC is a regional freight
railroad that extends along a 351-mile corridor between Jacksonville, FL and
Miami, FL with exclusive rail access to the Port of Palm Beach, Port
Everglades (Ft. Lauderdale) and the Port of Miami. Fortress is headquartered
in New York and has affiliates with offices in Dallas, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong
Kong, London, Los Angeles, Rome, San Francisco, San Diego, Sydney, Tokyo and
Toronto. Further information can be found at www.RailAmerica.com,
www.feci.com, and www.fortress.com.
SOURCE Florida East Coast Railway, LLC
Toby Srebnik of Tilson Communications, +1-561-998-1995, tsrebnik@tilsonpr.com;
Heidi Eddins of Florida East Coast Railway, +1-904-996-2812, heddins@feci.com
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