FAMILY-OWNED KINGSGATE TRANSPORTATION SEEKS EXPANSION WITH OFFICE MOVE

WEST CHESTER TWP. — 

After 29 years in business and a successful handoff from the founders to second generation owners, freight brokerage firm Kingsgate Transportation Services LLC is planning a new expansion and heavy hiring ahead.

Kingsgate, named after the West Chester Twp. street on which it was founded, has signed a lease for office space along Union Centre Boulevard with triple the square-footage than its current Eagle Ridge Court address, said one of the owners, Jeff Beckham. Plans are to add more than 30 employees, about double the size of the company today, Beckham said.

Beckham said his family’s company still has its first two clients from when his parents, Tom and Merry Beckham, started the business in his old bedroom in 1986. And he attributes a culture that puts clients first for the company’s growth over the years.

“We’re going to stay true to what got us to this point,” Jeff Beckham said.

Now, he’s counting on that “culture of connection” to grow as Kingsgate plans to beef up its sales and brokerage staff to win more contracts.

“We see an opportunity to build out the brokerage side of our business and all of that’s going to be through adding staff and sales people,” Beckham said. “We see a window of opportunity where our industry’s changed.”

As a freight broker, Kingsgate negotiates between carriers and companies what freight is moved when, where and how, and by various modes of transportation including truck, rail, air and ocean. However, the West Chester logistics company does not own trucks, rail cars or other assets. Additionally, Kingsgate provides third party logistics management services, running supply chains for some clients such as transporting raw materials to facilities and finished goods to end destinations.

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