Over the past 12 months, Chris Goss has led several high-impact transportation initiatives, including Trailer Bridge's first mission under the WEXMAC 2.0 contract, supporting the U.S. Navy's Continuing Promise 2025 humanitarian mission in the Dominican Republic.
Continuing Promise is an annual exercise with Southern Command in Miami, where they provide medical care, engineering and infrastructure.
"Our role is the provider for logistics, setting things up, getting things where it has to go, maybe providing hotels and transportation for local transport for the movement of personnel," Goss says. "It's really kind of anything that they might need to help support that operation."
Serving as VP, government and projects for Trailer Bridge, Inc., Goss leads one of the company’s most complex and mission-critical business segments, supporting U.S. government and allied military transportation programs across the globe. His role sits at the intersection of strategy, operations, and execution.
On a day-to-day basis, Goss oversees government contract strategy, capture, and execution, guiding teams responsible for port operations, stevedoring, vessel and asset coordination, multimodal transportation, and regulatory compliance.
He works closely with U.S. Transportation Command, Department of Defense agencies, NATO partners, and a global network of service providers to ensure military and humanitarian cargo moves seamlessly.
Equally central to his role is team development, where Goss has built and continues to mentor a high-performing government logistics team.
Under his leadership, Trailer Bridge’s government team has been awarded four multi-year contracts valued at more than $14 billion, representing one of the strongest government logistics portfolios in the company’s history.
In addition, he has led the capture of critical single-award contracts, including the All Ports Denmark contract valued at $60.5 million and the DeCA Bulk Deliveries contract valued at $6 million.
With more than 8 years of service as a civilian with the Department of the U.S. Army, he understands military logistics from the inside while possessing the commercial expertise required to execute complex transportation solutions at scale.
He also led Trailer Bridge’s first executed operation under U.S. Transportation Command’s PORTS contract, conducting stevedoring and port operations in Narvik, Norway.
And, he played a critical leadership role in launching Trailer Bridge Europe, establishing the company’s first European location in Frankfurt, Germany.
Looking ahead, Goss’ top priorities include securing at least one additional single-award government contract and increasing total annual government contract awards beyond $25 million.
Goss is a recipient of this year's Pros to Know award, in the Top Transportation Innovators category. He sat down with Marina Mayer, Editor-in-Chief of Food Logistics and Supply & Demand Chain Executive and Co-Founder of the Women in Supply Chain Forum™, to talk about the logistics behind moving government cargo, and the importance of taking your time to figure out what you want to do with your career.
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Supply & Demand Chain Executive: Hello, my name is Marina Mayer, Editor-in-Chief of Food Logistics and Supply & Demand Chain Executive, and I'm here with Chris Goss, Vice President of Government and Projects for Trailer Bridge. Chris is a recipient of this year's Pros to Know Award in the Top Transportation Innovators category, and he is a repeat winner of the Pros to Know Award, so that's very exciting.
Chris, let's talk about you, tell us a little bit about yourself and your journey, and how you got to this current stage in your career.
Chris Goss: I've been doing this now for over 20 years. I started out in the U.S. military with the Department of Army. I was a civilian there. I was in a very neat program where I was able to kind of learn all the ends of what happened with the U.S. military, redeploying and deploying troops throughout the world. So I did logistics with them for all types of modes and areas of the world. I transitioned to the private sector in 2012 with a company called Crowley, where I spent 10 years working mostly operational projects, large and small.
And I took that expertise and came to Trailer Bridge in 2022. I've been running that ever since, trying to grow our business and trying to figure out how we can expand our operations and our contracts with the U.S. military and any other government entity and agency.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive: One of the things outlined in your submission is how you work closely with U.S. Transportation Command, Department of Defense agencies, NATO partners, and a global network of service providers to ensure military and humanitarian cargo moves seamlessly. What does this entail? What are some of the common challenges you face, especially in today's day?
Chris Goss: I'd say our biggest challenge right now is just being flexible, right? A lot of changes are happening, a lot of things are taking place that, as a contractor, you have to just be patient and understand that requirements are going to shift, they may cancel in some cases.
And so, we're really trying to figure out exactly how to support our customer, whatever that may be. Tomorrow it could be one location, but the next day it could be something else, and that entails, or it requires us to have a good network of partners throughout the world that we can shift quickly. And of course, it's a global operation, so being away late at nighttime or early in the morning is also a big challenge for us, but it's logistics, right? You're solving problems, you're helping out your customer, and it is anything that's not unusual. It's just a different type of cargo so to speak, with the military.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive: Over the past 12 months, you led several high-impact transportation initiatives, including Trailer Bridge's first mission under the WEXMAC 2.0 contract, supporting the U.S. Navy's Continuing Promise 2025 humanitarian mission in the Dominican Republic. What is this mission? Explain what it is, what it entails, and why it's so important.
Chris Goss: Continuing Promise is an annual exercise with SouthCom, Southern Command, out of Miami. And it's a national building, where they provide primarily medical care, in Latin America, to partnerships, various projects, engineering and infrastructure, and things like that.
Our role is the provider for logistics, setting things up, getting things where it has to go, maybe providing hotels and transportation for local transport for the movement of personnel.
It's really kind of anything that they might need to help support that operation, and it's a really good one, right? I think that this exercise, they helped out in the Dominican Republic, they helped out over 1,500 people and patients medically with the USNS Comfort that was there. And so, it's exciting to know that we can support them, and because Trailer Bridge operates in the Caribbean, we actually have employees in an office in the Dominican Republic, so it became that much better for us, and that much more impactful for our company.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive: And then you also led Trailer Bridge's government logistics team in developing a fully operational medical treatment site at a local school in Puerto Plata. People don't realize that it takes logistics to get food and supplies from Point A to Point B. Walk us through what that looked like.
Chris Goss: The process to get there was lots of changes, as I mentioned before, it's logistics, so there were what you think you're getting into, it may not be exactly what it was, but it really entailed just providing the tents and the infrastructure to set up and Puerto Plata to help the military kind of operate on a day-to-day basis, triaging patients that require tents, they ask for bottles of water because it's kind of hot there. You have to have power for generators with fuel, and kind of maintain those throughout the exercise, and so it was the everything that you think of as a supporting element, we provided it to the U.S. military. And again, it's very exciting to support them for that.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive: The Top Transportation Innovators category recognizes professionals in the transportation space. What advice do you have for other transportation professionals in the supply chain space?
Chris Goss: I would say, it's a marathon, it's not a sprint. First, take your time to figure out what you want to do. Maybe find a mentor to help you out, somebody that can kind of walk you through and let them teach you what they might have learned. I did that and helped out tremendously throughout my career.
And also plan for what you want to do. I think that as young people, I was very similar in this nature, right? You're excited to do something, and you think that you can do it right away, but you may not be able to. So, plan out your career, try and figure out exactly what job you might want, and then set your goals to it. And if you're not happy in one location, you change that job and find that path towards you’re a position that you want.
Supply & Demand Chain Executive: What is something that we haven't discussed yet that's important for our viewers to see and to understand? What is a good takeaway for our audience?
Chris Goss: Innovation is something that you don't plan it, right? It just kind of happens in some cases. I think that what we do, I don't think that you think it's innovative, but it just kind of works through in that case, right? And so, I would say just keep doing what you're doing and stick to it. That's the most important piece. Logistics is always going to change, and it's really just a matter of finding your area and then working through that.
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