Drayage · June 19, 2026
How our fleet keeps containers moving from the terminal to your door — and how to avoid demurrage.
The Northwest Seaport Alliance — the Ports of Seattle and Tacoma — is one of the largest container gateways in North America. Getting a box off the terminal quickly and cleanly takes more than a truck: it takes appointments, chassis, and a dispatch team watching every clock.
Drayage is the short-haul move of an ocean container between the port, a warehouse, and the final destination. At Ad Hoc Logistics we handle both local and long-haul drayage with a large, experienced fleet of drivers and owner-operators working both ports.
Two clocks cost shippers money: demurrage (the container sitting at the terminal past its free time) and per-diem (the container out but not returned). The key is the Last Free Day — once it passes, charges start the next day. Our dispatchers track every container's free time and prioritize pulls before the LFD.
Because we also run transloading, cross-dock and storage in-house, a container can come off the terminal and be transloaded onto pallets the same day — no second carrier, no handoff gaps. That's what we mean by "logistics solutions you can rely on."