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Container drayage
Port and rail-ramp pickup with delivery appointments booked against your actual free-time clock, not after it expires.
Service 04 — Logistics
The last mile
is still your freight.
Port-adjacent storage, cross-docking, palletising and container drayage. Bonded and sufferance space at Canadian gateways, plus Chicago-area warehousing out of our Batavia facility.
The leg where shipments quietly go wrong.
The ocean leg is the visible part of the journey and the part everyone tracks. But the expensive failures usually happen after the vessel berths: a container sitting past its free days, a delivery appointment missed because nobody booked it, a load arriving at a receiving dock that closed an hour ago.
Drayage and warehousing are on the same file as your freight for exactly that reason. The person who knows your vessel arrived is the person arranging the truck.
Demurrage and detention — where the money leaks
These two get confused constantly, and the confusion is expensive. Demurrage is what the terminal charges when your container sits at the port past its free time. Detention is what the carrier charges when you keep their container past its free time after it leaves the port. Free time is typically three to five days, and both clocks run daily per container.
Neither charge is inevitable. They accumulate when nobody is watching the arrival date closely enough to book a truck in time. We watch it, because we booked the vessel.
Bonded, sufferance, and why it matters
A sufferance warehouse can hold cargo that has not yet been released by customs. A bonded facility lets you defer duty until goods are actually withdrawn for consumption. If you are importing seasonally, or holding stock you may re-export, deferring that outlay is real working capital rather than an accounting nicety.
Batavia and the Chicago rail hub
Our US facility sits in Batavia, Illinois, inside the largest inland rail hub in North America. For importers distributing across the Midwest — or moving goods north into Ontario — transloading ocean containers into domestic trailers there is often materially cheaper than dragging marine equipment to final destination and paying detention on it.
What's included
What we handle after arrival
Every item below is handled by the same coordinator who quoted you — there is no hand-off to a different desk once the booking is confirmed.
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Bonded & sufferance
Duty-deferred and pre-release storage at Canadian gateways for cargo you are not ready to clear or sell.
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Transload
Ocean containers stripped into domestic trailers — usually cheaper than running marine equipment inland and paying detention.
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Cross-dock
Inbound freight received, sorted and reshipped without going into storage, for goods already allocated to customers.
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Pick & pack
Order-level fulfilment out of Batavia, including palletising, labelling and retail compliance requirements.
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Final mile
LTL and FTL delivery to your warehouse, your customer or a retail DC, with proof of delivery back the same day.
Questions
Before you book
The things clients ask us most often on this service. If yours is not here, call or email — you will get a real answer, not a callback form.
Demurrage is charged by the terminal when your container sits at the port beyond its free time. Detention is charged by the carrier when you hold their container too long after it leaves the port. Both run daily, per container, and both are avoidable with planning.
Typically three to five days at the terminal, varying by carrier, port and contract. We will tell you your specific free-time window at booking so you are not finding out from an invoice.
A CBSA-licensed facility that can hold imported goods before they are released by customs. It is what allows cargo to leave the port while an entry is still being finalised.
We offer pick and pack, labelling and palletising out of Batavia. For high-volume direct-to-consumer fulfilment with deep platform integrations, a dedicated 3PL is usually the better fit and we will say so.
Yes, subject to space. Tell us the volume, the dwell time and whether it needs to be bonded, and we will quote it.
Get started
Tell us the lane.
We'll price it today.
Origin, destination, commodity and volume is all we need. A coordinator replies with an all-in rate inside one business day — with their name and direct line on it.
Phone
Offices
Toronto, ON · Canada
Batavia, IL · United States
Batavia, IL · United States