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Drayage

Drayage is how a full container is trucked from a port to a nearby warehouse.

Drayage

What is drayage? 

Drayage is the transportation of a full ocean container via truck. A full container will be loaded onto a chassis and trucked to a nearby warehouse or rail ramp. 

Drayage may incur a drayage base fee.

If the destination is not local, the full container will need to be transloaded into an FTL.

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Related Glossary Terms

Transloading 

FTL (Full Truckload) 

Chassis

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