More shippers are discovering the cost and efficiency of B.R.Willis enterprises approach to moving bulk and other products.

Transloading has been around since the age of steam and harness, but this multimodal transportation practice has seen a marked resurgence in the past five years. According to some estimates, the volume of transloaded cargo has grown by 50 percent, rates varying depending on the geographic region, industry, and product involved.

Briefly, transloading is the practice of transferring product between truck and rail transportation. It allows shippers and their customers to enjoy much of the cost benefits of rail transportation without having a rail siding at their door—at the least an expensive proposition, and for many companies, a physical impossibility. In most instances, a transload facility operator, third-party logistics company, or transportation broker facilitates transloading for both the shipper and the consignee. We offer warehousing and inventory management services to facilitate storage and delivery.

The objective of transloading is to get the goods as close as possible to the point of final processing, packaging, and consumption as economically as possible. In a typical transaction, a bulk shipment moves by rail to our facility, where it is offloaded with specialized equipment that's designed to handle the specific commodity. Depending on the shipper's or the consignee's requirements, the bulk product may then be packaged and warehoused at our facility, scheduled for delivery in smaller quantities to the consignee for further processing, or delivered directly to an end user.