All articles tagged with “Drayage Optimization”.
LCL (less-than-container-load) cargo arrives scattered. FCL (full-container-load) ships consolidated. The warehouse sits in the middle, running the consolidation math on dock-to-stock windows and drayage economics. Getting it wrong costs thousands per shipment.
A Dallas-based intermodal broker just got PE backing and now owns 150+ rail containers outright. This matters to Canadian shippers because the asset play changes how cost-effective rail-truck combinations pencil out on east-west routes. We run the numbers on what shifts at the dock.
Picking a warehouse Montreal near you based on proximity alone will cost you. The difference between Lachine, Dorval, and the 401 corridor compounds into real money on drayage, handling, and release timing. This is how ops teams actually evaluate location.