Prince joins KCS to develop U.S. Southeast/Mexico West Coast route

Prince joins KCS to develop U.S. Southeast/Mexico West Coast route    Kansas City Southern has appointed intermodal industry veteran Theodore Prince as vice president of sales and marketing for its intermodal and international business unit, with special responsibility for developing its International Intermodal Corridor between the Port of Lazaro Cardenas on Mexico’s West Coast to the U.S. Southeast.
   Prince will start his new job Sept. 1. At the same time KCS will split the intermodal and automotive units with Michael J. Smith serving as vice president, sales and marketing automotive business unit.
   Prince was senior vice president for marketing and sales at railroad information systems developer Optimization Alternatives Ltd. He also served as senior vice president and chief operating officer of “K” Line America and The Rail-Bridge Corp. He began his career at Consolidated Rail Corp.
   He also serves on the board of directors of the Intermodal Association of North America and the University of Denver’s Intermodal Transportation Institute, and is also a member of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Marine Transportation System National Advisory Council.
   KCS started its International Intermodal Corridor earlier this summer. Operated by KCS subsidiaries Kansas City Southern Railway Co. and Kansas City Southern de Mexico, the service travels from Lazaro Cardenas, San Luis Potosi and Monterrey in Mexico to the southeastern U.S. markets via Jackson, Miss., with connecting service to Atlanta.
   “Intermodal and automotive are both significant growth opportunities for our company, especially as we develop the International Intermodal Corridor,” said Daniel W. Avramovich, KCS’s executive vice president sales and marketing. “It made sense to split the intermodal and automotive business unit into two areas of concentration, taking advantage of Ted’s nearly 30 years of diverse intermodal expertise and Michael’s nearly 20 years of transportation and automotive experience.”