Atlanta Transloading
Moving freight between equipment — container to trailer, trailer to trailer, rail to road.
You need this when
- An ocean container has to be emptied so the box can go back before per-diem starts.
- Freight arrived by rail and needs to continue by truck.
- One 40ft container has to be split across several outbound trailers.
- The origin equipment cannot legally or practically make the final delivery.
Transloading is not cross docking
They look similar on the dock and are often confused. Cross docking is about time — freight moves through without being stored. Transloading is about equipment — freight changes what it is riding on, because the inbound vehicle cannot or should not complete the journey. A single move is frequently both, but the reason you are paying for it differs, and so does what goes wrong if it is skipped.
The per-diem clock is usually what is driving it
Ocean containers carry free time, and once it runs out the charges accrue daily against the box, not against the freight inside it. Transloading gets the goods onto domestic equipment and the empty back to the ramp or port, which stops that clock. The freight then moves on its own schedule instead of the container's — and can be split, held or delivered in pieces without the box sitting somewhere as an expensive shelf.
Often needed alongside
Atlanta Floor-Loaded Container Unloading
Hand-unloading ocean containers and palletizing the freight as it comes off.
Atlanta Cross Dock Services
Inbound trailer to outbound trailer, without the freight ever entering storage.
Atlanta Trailer Unloading
Labour and dock space to get a trailer emptied and released.