ORGANIZATION HISTORY
CBT USA LOGISTICS, “CBT”, story stems from its family oriented culture and origin. Over 100 years ago, in New York, 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. The family was known for its global logistics capabilities as an expert intermodal freight forwarder with a rich network of high quality asset owners.
After a century of experience and many success stories in multiple industries, the family’s 3rd generation decided to establish a unique specialized logistics platform that serves the United States Military and Government needs across the globe. This is when CBT was born as an answer to vertical integration in the Government Logistics Services industry.
CBT continues to serve its clients by providing proven customized logistics solutions which we call “Precision Logistics” under our moto of “…we carry and care”.
“…. we wanted to build an organization where we can have fun doing what we know.”
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) has more than 30 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 25 year experience in logistics operations and compliance. He started his logistics career in 1988 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 (Managing Director – Middle East & Southwest Asia) 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.
Brigadier General US Army, (RET) D. Michael Kelleher As an Army Officer, Corporate Executive, and Consultant, Mike Kelleher has been active in the military, logistics, and general business communities for more than 50 years. Following a 28 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. He holds an AB in Economics from Lafayette College, an MS in Systems Management from Florida Institute of Technology and an MA in National Security and Strategic Studies from the US Naval War College, and has completed the Program for Manager Development at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
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:
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.