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Trailer Bridge, Inc. Introduces Vehicle Transport Module

8 September 1998

Trailer Bridge, Inc. Introduces Vehicle Transport Module at AUTO-TECH '98

    JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 4 -- Trailer Bridge, Inc.
, introduced its recently developed Vehicle Transport Module(TM)
at the AUTO-TECH '98, sponsored by AIAG in Detroit, MI, this week. The
53-foot-long by 102-inch-wide shipping module is uniquely designed
specifically for damage-free vehicle transport and offers multi-modal
capability including truck, rail and water.
    The Trailer Bridge Vehicle Transport Modules(TM) (VTMs) are available in
different heights to accommodate regular passenger vehicles as well as higher
profile trucks and sport utility vehicles. The Vehicle Transport Module(TM)
will be used in conjunction with five new vessels the Company is building for
service between the US mainland and Puerto Rico and along the Atlantic coast
seaboard. Trailer Bridge has filed for a patent on the VTMs.
    An initial order of 300 VTMs are being built and will be ready for service
in mid-October of this year. An agreement has been concluded with General
Motors Corporation to utilize Vehicle Transport Module(TM) technology for
General Motors' new vehicles moving to Puerto Rico through the year 2001
    Trailer Bridge, Inc., headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, presently
provides truckload freight service to and from all points in the lower 48
states and Puerto Rico. This total transportation system utilizes its own
trucks, drivers, trailers, vessels and marine facilities in Jacksonville and
San Juan, Puerto Rico. Trailer Bridge's founder and majority stockholder is
Malcom P. McLean, the transportation pioneer who invented containerization
forty years ago.