""I had my come-to-Jesus moment," Damoa recalled of the pivotal moment when he decided to strike out on his own. "I looked around the globe, and I was like, 'OK, rail is broken, ports are really congested, roads are congested, the fatalities on roads are crazy. Why aren't more folks using rail?' And then, my 17-year-old self tapped me on the shoulder, was like, 'Because it's hard to get things from road to rail.'""
"Glīd isn't trying to compete with trains. Instead, the company is focused on that first mile from port to railroad, as well as road-to-rail applications within large industrial parks. "The first mile is where all your problems happen," he said. "This is where you unload ships and stack up your containers and then figure out where they're intended to go to. That process is still broken and involves a bunch of steps.""
Kevin Damoa began working with rail logistics as a 17-year-old loading military vehicles and later built engineering and logistics experience across the military and private sector. Damoa identified a persistent operational gap in moving containers from ship to train that causes stacking, delays, congestion, and safety risks on roads and at ports. He founded Glīd Technologies to solve the first-mile handoff between port cranes, hostler trucks, and rail, and to enable road-to-rail transfers inside industrial parks. Glīd’s approach focuses on simplifying multi-step container flows and improving coordination to shift freight from road to rail more efficiently.
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