This article originally ran in St. Louis Magazine on September 26, 2022.
Take a riverboat cruise with Caitlin Murphy and she’ll geek out—and not about the typical touristy sites along the river. While you’re pointing out the Arch like a townie, the 35-year-old CEO of Global Gateway Logistics is eyeing the grain augers and the barges that are loaded with corn, fertilizer, and soybeans and floating down the Mississippi to New Orleans, and eventually overseas. But Murphy has another vision for the river.
Murphy works in global freight forwarding, helping clients pick trade routes and carriers, and navigating customs. When COVID-19 hit, her customers faced delays from port congestion, factory shutdowns overseas, and rail disruption. “Clients of ours have containers that sit for over a month in Los Angeles, just waiting to get on the railroad,” Murphy says.
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