ALEXANDRIA, Va. (USTCNS) -- In another sign of the Military Traffic Management Command's on-going reorganization, the payment of ocean carriers is now being centralized.

Worldwide payments to ocean carriers are now being made by the Intermodal Cargo Analysis Division, Deployment Support Command, Fort Eustis, Va.

The phased transfer of responsibility for worldwide payments to the Deployment Support Command began in April and is now nearing completion.

Before the centralization of payments, MTMC was paying ocean carriers from three different regional offices.

The 598th Transportation Group, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, paid ocean carriers from an office in London, United Kingdom. The 599th Transportation Group, Wheeler Army Air Field, Hawaii, made its payments from an office in Yokohama, Japan. Ocean carrier payments for the continental United States were made from the Deployment Support Command.

In all, the Intermodal Cargo Analysis Division workload is expected to increase an average of 360 invoices monthly from Europe and 180 monthly from the Pacific.

The division is up to the job, said Isaac McGlothen, chief, Intermodal Cargo Analysis Division.

"I will have a lot more responsibility," said McGlothen. "I already have a team set up specifically to handle the European-Pacific payments."

The initiative is part of a bigger MTMC effort to centralize personnel, supply and finance workloads.

"This is a part of the centralization and the continued streamlining efforts to make MTMC more effective and efficient," said Rueben Bangan, of the MTMC headquarters Resource Management Office.

The European and Pacific offices will close by Sept. 30. (FROM MILITARY TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT COMMAND PUBLIC AFFAIRS)