Tacoma Transloading
Ad Hoc Logistics devans ocean containers off the Port of Tacoma 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 Tacoma — Husky, WUT or PCT — 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 Tacoma 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 is about 25 minutes north of the Port of Tacoma terminals — close enough to pull a container off Husky, WUT or PCT, 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 Tacoma 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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