The Port of Los Angeles announced this week a new program that expedites cargo by streamlining container moves, which aims to speed up operations at the port.
The Port teamed with stevedoring company The Pasha Group, harbor trucking firm Total Transportation Services Inc. (TTSI), several marine container terminal operators and a core group of major retailers to create the program, which involves "peeling off" containers of high-volume customers to a near-dock yard where they are sorted for destination to inland distribution centers.
Under "Peel Off," import containers loaded with goods belonging to high-volume shippers are stacked together in a block upon arrival at the Port. The terminals expedite TTSI trucks through their gates to retrieve the containers and deliver them to the near-dock yard less than a mile away where they are sorted. The same trucks loop back to the terminals for the next inbound container. The trucks keep boxes moving by delivering outbound containers on the return leg.
The port noted that while the program is geared for high-volume shippers, “increasing terminal productivity has a positive ripple effect for everyone moving cargo through our port.”
The yard is open six days a week with 17 acres available for staging up to 500 containers. As demand grows, the facility can operate 24/7 and accommodate up to 650 containers.