Transloading in Los Angeles and Long Beach with Platton happens in the LA basin, a short haul from the harbor, where your cargo leaves the ocean box, gets palletized to your receiver's spec and loads into 53-foot domestic trailers or intermodal rail. Our transloading services send that freight on to the Inland Empire, Texas, the Midwest and every market in between.
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Platton's transload warehouse facilities sit in the LA basin near the San Pedro Bay terminals. We pull from both sides of the harbor: Pier 400 (APM Terminals), TraPac, Yusen Terminals (YTI), Everport, West Basin Container Terminal and Fenix Marine Services on the Los Angeles side, and LBCT at Middle Harbor, ITS, Pacific Container Terminal, SSA Marine at Pier A and TTI at Pier T on the Long Beach side.
The pickup runs on our Los Angeles drayage, with 93% same-day port pickup and an average of $280 in fees saved per container, and the haul from the terminal gate to our door is short.
Platton prices a Los Angeles transload from the container and your outbound plan, three-into-two trailer builds included, and the quote holds once you book. At San Pedro Bay the price moves most with how the box is packed, since a floor-loaded container from Shenzhen or Ho Chi Minh City needs a palletizing shift that a palletized one does without.
Containers from Shanghai, Ningbo, Ho Chi Minh City and Rotterdam land at San Pedro Bay palletized or floor-loaded, and our crews in the LA basin build each one into freight for your receiver's dock, with warehouse services close by for cargo that has to wait.
Off the Asia and Europe sailings, our dock empties 20-foot, 40-foot and 40-foot high cube boxes pallet by pallet, or one carton at a time when the freight travels loose. Floor-loaded freight from Shenzhen and Ho Chi Minh City factories comes off the floor of the box and gets built onto pallets for the next leg.
Three 40-foot boxes off a Los Angeles vessel usually rebuild into two 53-foot domestic trailers when the weight permits, and each trailer runs inland as a full truckload, so you pay for two inland moves where you would have paid for three.
FBA-bound freight gets full Amazon FBA prep, with FNSKU labels, poly bagging and carton and pallet compliance done before the trailer leaves for the Inland Empire fulfillment centers.
Amazon runs one of its densest fulfillment networks in the US across the Inland Empire and the LA basin, which puts a large share of San Pedro Bay imports on a regional run to an FBA dock. Platton runs that freight to Ontario, Fontana, Riverside and the rest of the Inland Empire through our Amazon FBA shipping service, alongside deliveries to retail and distribution centers across Southern California.
Freight for the rest of the country leaves our dock in 53-foot trailers, as LTL shipments or on intermodal rail east to Dallas, Chicago and other inland markets.
When a big vessel discharges at Pier 400 or Middle Harbor, terminal appointments fill fast and free time goes with them, and demurrage runs $150 to $500 a day once it runs out. We book the terminal appointment the day your box becomes available, so it rolls out of the harbor before demurrage starts.
Schedule your Long Beach or LA transload
Importers choose Platton at San Pedro Bay for a dock that works to their container's schedule.
Platton is an import-focused US forwarder with weekly sailings from Asia and Europe to Los Angeles and Long Beach.
Platton's AI-driven platform tracks your container in real time and generates its documents automatically, so the transload is booked around the box's actual arrival at Fenix, TraPac or TTI.
Outbound trailers leave our Los Angeles dock against your receiver's appointment, and when rail carries the long haul a truck meets it at the ramp. Your receivers in Ontario or Chicago get their freight on the day they planned for.
Our LA basin dock takes a single floor-loaded 20-footer of mixed cartons as readily as a weekly run of 40-foot high cubes.
1. Send the container details. Tell us the box, the cargo and where it goes, and get a live quote for the Los Angeles transload.
2. Book the transload. Accept the quote and the price holds for that container.
3. Brief our dock. Send the packing list and your receiver's pallet and label requirements so our dock is ready before the container leaves Pier 400 or LBCT.
4. Watch it arrive. Follow the box into our LA basin dock with real-time tracking.
We work the full San Pedro Bay terminal list, so a box discharged at Yusen Terminals, Everport or Pacific Container Terminal reaches our dock the same way as one from Pier 400 or LBCT.
Most containers reach Platton's import warehouse facilities within hours after customs release, and container unloading is scheduled for that arrival. We then load the trailer or the intermodal container for the Inland Empire or the run east.
Yes. Platton transloads boxes from Ho Chi Minh City, Haiphong, Nhava Sheva, Mundra and Chennai at our LA basin dock, along with cargo from China and Europe.
Yes. Send Platton the container number and the terminal, and we book the pickup from LBCT, ITS, TTI or any other San Pedro Bay terminal and start the transload as soon as the box reaches our dock.
Tell us about the box and the receiver, and Platton comes back with a live quote for your San Pedro Bay transload. Your next box off Pier 400 or Middle Harbor can be palletized, labeled and on a trailer to the Inland Empire while its free time is still running.
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