Our Savannah transloading takes a container off Garden City Terminal and moves the freight to several docks or far inland. We unload it in the warehouse belt beside the port, rework or cross-dock the pallets to your receivers' specs and load them for Atlanta, Charlotte or Memphis. Pallet rework, cross-docking and Southeast loads are the core of our transloading services in Savannah.
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Platton's import warehouse facilities for Savannah sit in the warehouse belt around the port: Pooler, Port Wentworth, Bloomingdale and Effingham County. We pull containers from Garden City Terminal and Ocean Terminal.
Savannah drayage brings the box to our door, with 93% of port pickups made the day Garden City releases it.
A Savannah transload quote from Platton comes back instantly on our import platform, with pallet rework, special handling and storage per pallet per day on the same quote when the job needs them. Expect a floor-loaded 40-foot box from Garden City that needs every pallet built and labeled, then split across several Southeast docks, to price above a palletized 20-foot that rolls straight onto one trailer. Book it and that rate is locked.
Pallets that left Asia too tall, overhanging or on the wrong footprint for an Atlanta or Charlotte DC get rebuilt on our Savannah dock before the trailer goes back out, and if the receiving dock is still booked up, the freight waits with our warehouse services until it has room.
Pallets that come out of the container road-ready cross our dock near Garden City onto outbound trailers in the same shift and leave for Atlanta or Charlotte by LTL shipping or full truckload.
Atlanta, Charlotte and the rest of the Southeast get their freight in 53-foot domestic trailers. For Nashville, Memphis and anything 500 miles or more inland, Platton prices rail (CSX to Nashville, CSX or Norfolk Southern to Memphis) and the trailer route side by side so you ship on the cheaper one.
Outbound loads go by LTL or full truckload to metro Atlanta, about 250 miles away, to DCs across the Southeast and into Charlotte. Amazon sellers ship to fulfillment centers such as SAV4 in Pooler, a short run from our dock, through Amazon FBA shipping.
Because the run from the terminal to our dock is short, the container is unloaded fast and goes back to Garden City within a day or two, ahead of the last free day, while your freight is already rolling toward its docks.
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Platton is a Savannah freight forwarder with its own office in the city, at 100 Bull St, 2nd Floor, Savannah, GA 31401, reachable at +1 206-776-2292. The team planning your transload works from Savannah, close to Garden City Terminal and the warehouse belt.
Quotes, bookings, documents and real-time tracking for your Savannah containers run on one AI-driven platform.
1. Price it live. Tell us what the Garden City container holds and where the freight is going, and a live Savannah price comes straight back.
2. Confirm the booking. Book the transload from that quote, and our Savannah dock is set for your container.
3. We work the box. After customs release, the container is worked on our Savannah dock: unloaded, counted, palletized and labeled to your receiver's spec.
4. Freight leaves the dock. Pallets load for Atlanta, Charlotte or rail the day they are ready.
Yes. We send the trailer to SAV4 in Pooler, with Amazon FBA prep done on our Savannah dock first when your cartons need it.
Yes. We pull containers from Ocean Terminal as well as Garden City Terminal, and both come to the same Savannah dock for rework, cross-docking and trailer loading.
We bring the load back to our Savannah dock, rebuild the pallets to that DC's spec and send it back up I-16 for a new appointment.
We quote the dock work and the outbound load. Road-ready pallets go from the container straight onto the outbound trailer, so they skip storage days.
Tell us what is on the vessel and where it has to go. Platton reworks or cross-docks your next Garden City container and has it on trailers to Atlanta and Charlotte or on rail to Nashville and Memphis.
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