Yellow gets court OK on separate groups of terminal sales, Saia buyer of three

Sale of smaller group of four terminals also OKd, buyers are not transportation firms

Saia got the OK to buy three more terminals from Yellow. (Photo: Jim Allen\FreightWaves)

Saia has obtained court approval to acquire three terminals being sold out of the bankruptcy of Yellow Corp.

In a court filing with the Delaware Bankruptcy Court last week, the court approved the sale to Saia (NASDAQ: SAIA) of former Yellow terminals in Deer Park, New York, on Long Island; Calexico, California, which sits on the Mexican border in southern California;  and Orlando.

The price paid for the three assets is $8.5 million. The deal has not closed, with the actual closing still dependent on various requirements being met. 

On Saia’s most recent earnings call with analysts, held April 25, Saia CFO Matthew Bateh said in the prior 12 months the company had opened 21 terminals. 

The final sales price is higher than the $6.5 million originally agreed to in early May. As reported, when the trio of terminals is in the Saia fold, the LTL carrier will have acquired 31 facilities out of the Yellow bankruptcy. 

The Orlando terminal has 72 doors. In Deer Park, there are 54 doors, and the Calexico facility has 21 doors.

Yellow’s court approval to sell the three sites to Saia came just a few days after the court also agreed to a separate sale of assets from the LTL carrier’s bankruptcy that were first filed earlier this month. The final sales price for the terminals was $6,845,000. 

None of the buyers were transportation companies. The assets consisted of facilities in Knoxville, Tennessee; Southington, Connecticut; a facility near Baton Rouge; and a smaller facility in Tupelo, Mississippi.

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John has an almost 40-year career covering commodities, most of the time at S&P Global Platts. He created the Dated Brent benchmark, now the world’s most important crude oil marker. He was Director of Oil, Director of News, the editor in chief of Platts Oilgram News and the “talking head” for Platts on numerous media outlets, including CNBC, Fox Business and Canada’s BNN. He covered metals before joining Platts and then spent a year running Platts’ metals business as well. He was awarded the International Association of Energy Economics Award for Excellence in Written Journalism in 2015. In 2010, he won two Corporate Achievement Awards from McGraw-Hill, an extremely rare accomplishment, one for steering coverage of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster and the other for the launch of a public affairs television show, Platts Energy Week.