Logistics Services
Based on its experience of 15 years in warehousing, transport, cartage, vertical movement and installation of construction materials, supplies and light equipment, Eagle America offers to General Contractors, Construction companies, Developers, Importers and others, its installations of up to 200,000 square feet of floor space with tall ceilings, heavy duty Eagle's landlord, Economy, Inc. a firm with more than fifteen years operating large warehouse operations.
Warehousing and Storage
Eagle uses the above facilities to receive, inspect, unpack, reload, and send to its construction sites articles that range from appliances to wood flooring. The most recent contract consisted in eight containers of preassembled closets and cabinets imported from China by the General Contractor for the renovation of the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago, which took six moths in measured deliveries to the site as the work progressed to recent completion.
As an example of Eagle's own use of these operations, Eagle fulfilled its contract to furnish and install appliances and cabinets for the 246 unit State Peace Condominiums in Chicago, receiving at the warehouse large number of appliances and cabinets that were stored for up to 30 days for orderly delivery to the construction site within 15 minutes of its need for vertical transport and installation done by Eagle’s unionized personnel.
Cost Savings
The short time notice requested for arrival to the warehouse and 48 hours notice for delivery to job site and its system for Roll-On / Roll Off system, make Eagle's services ideal for construction deliveries since it reduces unloading space requirement at site reducing hoist time and labor at the loading dock.
For companies doing large purchases of products and equipment in sizeable imports and to take advantage of tax relief and discounts situations for massive purchases, Eagle offers long term indefinite warehousing in controlled environmental conditions managed by Economy, Inc.
Intermodal Services
For intermodal users, Economy offers reception of containers to be unloaded, fractioned and re-shipped in vans, box trucks or semis to retail sites or clients' own warehouses. For further information of this activity please access Economy's own web site