Understanding the significance of drayage is critical in logistics and supply chain management. So what is drayage? It’s the pivotal link in the movement of goods over short distances. Drayage acts as the bridge between various transportation modes, ensuring seamless cargo flow within urban areas and from ports to nearby
Intermodal drayage is a type of transportation service that uses more than one mode of transportation to move goods over short distances. This can include trucking, railroads, or ships, depending on the origin and destination of the shipment. This method allows companies to transport their goods over shorter distances at lower
Your business has an order that needs to make it to your customers as soon as possible. Except it’s not an Amazon box you can have delivered by traditional means, and it doesn’t demand a giant shipping container to cross the ocean blue either. In this situation, cross-docking and intermodal
In the United States, cargo theft is an industry. One that causes between $15 to $25 billion dollars per year in losses, for business owners, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau.
The U.S. Census Bureau states that Texas is the biggest exporter out of all states and territories. In 2018 alone, Texas exported about 18% of the total state economic output.
At Canal Cartage, we are more than a logistics provider; we’re your partner in providing quality drayage services, transmodal and cross docking, with a large secure warehouse in La Porte, Texas.
One of the challenges that commercial businesses face is the frate shipping options used to reduce the cost of export or import goods. At Canal Cartage, we have over 500 privately owned chassis to handle volume shipments including overweight containers, with light tractors and experienced drivers to assist you with
We would like to share what goes on behind the scenes as a process and procedure, for every drayage shipment we manage for our customers.
Trucking company owners want to make money, and that means getting shipments delivered safely and ON TIME! Warehouse and dock workers want the freight’s arrival, consolidation, loading and departure to go smoothly and ON TIME! Drivers want their paperwork accurate and the freight ready to load or offload when they
Security Measures That Protect Customer Freight and Cargo A recent article in Overdrive magazine, provided some good news for the American trucking industry. In 2017, the number of cargo theft incidents dropped by 15%, compared to reported theft in 2016. In a report and survey conducted by SensiGuard, there were
