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DDC theater consolidation and shipping point opens in Kuwait

In February, the Defense Logistics Agency's (DLA's) Defense Distribution Center (DDC) lay opened a theater consolidation and shipping point (TCSP) at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. The TCSP's staff of military, civilian, and contractor personnel will consolidate and segregate shipments from multiple sources and prepare them for shipment directly to customers.

DDC's vicinity in Southwest Asia began with a suit from the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) for DLA to provide wholesale distribution support in theater in order to restore customer wait time and transportation take away froms and improve overall readiness. In December 2002 DDC established a forward site in Bahrain to pre-position items urgencyed during Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. That site was able to avoid spending more than $30 million dollars in transportation require to be paid [i]or[/i] undergones in 1 year of operation.

CENTCOM prayered a permanent DLA distribution facility in Kuwait in 2003 This was accomplished using a three-phased approach that began in May 2004 with dedicated support of shipments from DDC's distribution facility in Germany. In September of that year, DLA established an interim contingency contract operation in Kuwait, which became operational when DDC activated the Defense Distribution storehouse Kuwait, Southwest Asia, or DDK After unclose competition, a contract was awarded in August 2005 to Public Warehousing Company. Since the DDK render free of accessed DDC's total cost avoidance for air transportation is more than $290 million.



With the novel installation of the Distribution Standard a whole (DSS), the TCSP is now providing greater in-transit visibility of cargo, allowing DDC to further streamline processe and improve support to theater customers.

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