Seattle Transloading
Ad Hoc Logistics devans ocean containers off the Port of Seattle at our Kent dock — restacked onto domestic trailers or pallets — so your box turns fast and your freight ships cheaper.
Transloading turns an ocean container into a domestic shipment. We pull your box off the Port of Seattle with our own drayage, bring it to our Kent cross-dock, and transfer the cargo onto a 53-foot trailer, pallets or rail — then return the empty fast so the per-diem clock stops. For Seattle importers that means lower demurrage, cheaper domestic linehaul on a full 53', and one team handling the move from terminal to truck.
At our Kent dock
Floor-loaded and palletized ocean containers unloaded by hand or forklift, counted and inspected.
Cargo restacked from a 20'/40' box onto a 53-foot domestic trailer to cut your per-mile cost.
Inbound to outbound with no storage step — freight crosses the dock and ships the same day.
Floor-loaded freight built to pallets, restacked, shrink-wrapped and labeled for the next leg.
Empty back to the terminal quickly so demurrage and per-diem stay off your invoice.
Roll straight into short- or long-term warehousing at the same Kent hub.
Our Kent dock sits about 20 minutes south of the Port of Seattle terminals — close enough to pull a container, devan it, and reload it for the road without the box ever sitting idle. Because we run the drayage, the dock and the outbound delivery in-house, your freight moves on one chain of custody: off the terminal, across the dock, onto a domestic trailer. No second vendor, no extra handoff, and the empty returns before the per-diem clock costs you.
Transloading moves cargo from an ocean container to domestic equipment. Doing it near the Port of Seattle lets you return the container fast (lower demurrage/per-diem) and ship inland on a cheaper full 53-foot trailer instead of paying to move the box.
Yes — floor-loaded and palletized. We can palletize floor-loaded freight or keep it floor-loaded into the outbound trailer.
Most transloads are same-day once the box is at our dock, which is what keeps the empty moving and the charges down.
Yes — transload what ships now and roll the rest into warehousing at the same Kent facility.
Tell us the container and the outbound destination — a transload specialist replies the same day.
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