Partner — Platton
Your goods cleared customs. Now they still have to get from the port to a dock somewhere in the country — and that domestic leg is where a lot of savings and a lot of headaches live.
International forwarding and domestic transport are two different jobs. The importers who never think about freight are the ones whose partners hand off cleanly between them.
Plenty of shipments cross an ocean without a hitch and then lose days on home soil — waiting on a drayage appointment, a transload, or a truck that nobody booked. That's because the forwarder's job (origin booking, ocean/air, customs) and the domestic carrier's job (drayage, transload, final-mile) are usually done by different companies who don't talk to each other.
We work with Platton so that gap closes. Platton runs the international side and the customs clearance for importers, then coordinates the domestic move with a carrier who's ready for it — us. Because we're asset-based, once the container is cleared we pull it off the terminal, transload it if it needs to ship deeper into the country, and handle the OTR and final-mile delivery.
Port to door
Cleared by Platton, moved by us — drayage, transload and delivery across the Northwest and beyond, on one set of wheels.
Talk domestic freightDomestic freight cost isn't just the linehaul. It's the demurrage you avoid by pulling the box on time, the double-handling you skip with a proper transload, and the empty miles you don't pay for when the same carrier owns the whole ground move. A forwarding partner who plans the domestic leg before the ship arrives — instead of scrambling after — is the difference between a quote that looks cheap and a landed cost that actually is. See how the pieces fit in our guide to what drayage is.
Everything after customs clearance: drayage off the terminal, any transload or warehousing, and the over-the-road or final-mile delivery to the consignee.
Platton coordinates it as part of door-to-door forwarding, and works with domestic carriers like us to run the actual US ground move — drayage, transload and final-mile.
Because we're asset-based, the same carrier that pulls your container also transloads and delivers it — fewer handoffs, fewer dropped balls, and one company accountable for the domestic leg.
Yes. We transload ocean containers to domestic trailers for onward OTR delivery, so freight that lands in Seattle or Tacoma can ship anywhere in the country.
Platton is a US freight forwarder for importers — origin booking, ocean and air, customs, and delivery coordination. More at platton.ai.