Values thru capabilities…
Organization History
The CBT USA LOGISTICS -- “CBT” -- story stems from its family-oriented culture and origin. Founded more than 70 years ago in New York City, the Robbins family grew its operation from a preferred cross Atlantic Freight Forwarder into an exclusive operator serving special and custom projects for world renowned carriers and shippers. The family and its company – RF International Ltd -- was known for its global logistics capabilities as an expert intermodal freight forwarder and NVOCC with a robust global network of high-quality asset owners and intermediaries.
After more than half a century of experience and many success stories with many clients and within multiple industries, the family’s 3rd generation decided to establish a unique specialized logistics platform that principally served the United States Military and Government needs across the globe. This is when CBT was born to support the vertical integration in the Government Transportation Services industry.
CBT continues to serve its clients – both Government and Private Sector -- by providing proven customized logistics solutions which we call “Precision Logistics” under our motto of “…We Carry and Care”.
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Our Leadership
CBT Team consist of multiple players who are grouped under the efforts and experience of the company leadership. Our leaders come from different functions of the logistics operations; Business Development, Operations, Compliance and Finance. The following are the key members of the company leadership team:
Mitchel Robbins
President, CBTUSA
Mitchel Robbins has more than 40 years of professional experience in Global Logistics, business development and acquisitions. He began his career in the early 1980s when he earned a partnership with a major global shipping and logistics corporation. From 1985 to 1993, Mitchel was Executive Vice President of Robbins Fleisig Forwarding. Mitchel has also served as the CEO RFI Group part of PACER INTERNATIONAL INC. (NASDQ: PACR).
Neal Freedman (Executive Vice President) has more than 40 years experience in logistics operations and compliance. He started his logistics career in 1980 as an operations manager and climbed during his career to be part of the designers and implementers of the NDN (Northern Distribution Network) routing for U.S. Transportation Command (USTranscom). This was integral to the U.S. support of troops on the ground in Afghanistan.
MAJ (RET) Radford Cox served as the S-3 to the 831st TRANS BN in Bahrain for 9 years and still resides in Bahrain working as the Managing Operations Director of Middle East, Africa and Caucasus Regions for CBT USA Logistics. As the S-3, MAJ (RET) Cox developed the SOP’s for SDDC’s TAN initiative and understands the complexities involved in moving cargo throughout the region and across borders.
As an Army Officer, Corporate Executive, and Consultant, Mike Kelleher has been active in the military, logistics, shipping, trucking, and general business communities for more than 50 years. Initially schooled in the ocean shipping industry in New York City in liner administration, chartering, and other brokerage activities, he them served a 27-year career in the US Army where he commanded and directed tactical and strategic logistics activities on three continents – culminating as Commanding General, Western Area, Military Traffic Management Command with responsibility for all US Military surface logistics movements over half the globe. Over the last 20+ years he has been involved with a broad range of business and consulting activities while also serving as the CBT Operations Officer.
Our Structure
CBT runs a unified service platform that works through its Global Points of Presence (“GPOP”). Our New York Head-office oversights all GPOP’s operations with focus on Compliance and Quality Control. Furthermore, each GPOP is an extension of CBT’s experience in the Intermodal logistics and plays a role in our designed solution. Our team members focus on four key areas:
CLIENT OPERATIONAL SERVICE
NETWORK OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT
COUNTRIES REGULATORY MANAGEMENT
OPERATIONS SUPPORT SERVICES
At any point of our client’s service implementation, our structure serve’s us well to keep the client linked to a real-time stream of all events and activities that take place till completion of the project.