Entrepôt à Hialeah Gardens, transload et plus de 50 quais de chargement

Hialeah Gardens, à quelques minutes des ports. Il y en a un, pas un réseau : tout ce qui descend d'un châssis descend ici, et ensuite la marchandise va où elle doit aller.

plus de 50.

120,000 sq ft of floor at 32 ft clear, plus de 50 dock doors, and 5 acres of container yard outside it. That is one building rather than a network of them, which is the point: everything that comes off a chassis comes off it here, and the freight goes out from the same place it came in.

Roughly 4,000 at one time between the racks and the floor, and close to twice that where the freight stacks two high. The racks are selective, several thousand positions in aisles at the back of the building, and the rest of the count is floor space. The figure is estimated from the floor area rather than read off a rack drawing, and it is deliberately the working number rather than the theoretical one: a good part of 120,000 sq ft has to stay clear as dock apron, transload lane and staging, because a container cannot be emptied into a building with nowhere to put the freight. Racked out fully at 32 ft clear the same floor would hold two to three times more, and it is not racked out, on purpose. For a real volume over a real period, ask: space is committed per booking rather than published as a ceiling.

The floor runs on Manhattan Active Warehouse Management, so every pallet has a rack or floor position and every receipt, move and pick is a record. What there is not is a customer-facing portal: orders arrive by email or by a daily file, and what you get back is the record of each move and photographs at the handovers, sent to you the day it happens. This is a flow operation, containers emptied, transloaded and cross-docked with the freight usually gone within days, and that record is what a transload actually needs. If your business needs a system-to-system feed, say so at the quote stage and it gets a straight answer before anyone books.

Fenced and gated, lit, alarmed, on camera, and guarded around the clock, and the facility is TSA certified and FDA registered. Most freight here is waiting on a clock rather than settling in for a season, so the usual question is about a loaded container sitting overnight rather than about long-term storage, and that is exactly the case the yard is set up for. If your cargo needs something more specific, say so before you book: an indoor position instead of a yard slot, a sealed box that stays sealed, or photographs at every handover.

About 20 estimated road miles from PortMiami and its terminals, about 25 from Port Everglades and its terminals, and 5 to 8 from the Hialeah rail ramps. The table on this page lists every port, terminal and ramp with its distance. That proximity is the entire argument for emptying a container here rather than at a warehouse an hour inland: the box goes back to the line the same day instead of two days later, and per diem stops with it.

It stops the clock that is running on the container, which is usually the expensive one. Demurrage runs while the box sits inside the terminal; a pre-pull before the last free day ends that, and the container comes here instead. Per diem then runs until the empty is returned, so the box is emptied and sent back rather than parked full at your dock. The freight waits here on a rack, where nobody charges by the day for the steel around it.

Here, and that is exactly what transload is for. A box that is legal on a tri-axle chassis for a short port run stops being legal on a long one, so the freight comes out of the container and onto a trailer, split across two loads if the weight needs it. Done a short run from the terminal, it turns one expensive permitted move into an ordinary truckload, and the empty goes back the same day.

Yes: five acres of yard for containers that need somewhere to be, loaded or empty, grounded or sitting on a chassis, for a night or for a season. The reason to stage a box here rather than anywhere is that the truck that brings it and the truck that takes it away are the same operation, so a stored container is one phone call from moving again.

Yes, we handle bonded freight: terminal to the bonded facility the entry names, port to port, or back out of the country, sealed and under bond, with the entry filed through the licensed customs broker we work with if you do not have your own. The bonded storage, the trucking and the handling around it are arranged together as one job.

Yes. Storage is billed by the pallet and by the day rather than by the square foot and by the year, which is the difference between a public warehouse and a lease. Twelve pallets for three weeks is a normal booking, not an exception, and so is a single container emptied, stored and shipped back out under your name.

Le quai tourne de 8 à 5, du lundi au vendredi, pareil pour la réception et pour l'expédition. La répartition répond 24h/24, mais c'est la répartition, pas le quai : envoyez un numéro de conteneur à 23h et vous aurez une réponse, la marchandise bouge une fois le quai ouvert.

Non. C'est premier arrivé, premier servi, donc pas de système de rendez-vous à contourner ni de créneau à rater. Présentez-vous dans les horaires et vous passez à votre tour.

Un dry van routier en déchargement sur place doit être ici avant 15h pour être traité le jour même. Un conteneur qui est déposé, pas déchargé sur place, peut arriver jusqu'à 16h.

Si la marchandise est déjà dans l'entrepôt et libérée avant 16h, elle part le jour même. Tout ce qui est libéré après part à la première heure le lendemain.

Le jour même chaque fois que la journée le permet. Si le temps manque avant la fin, c'est terminé à la première heure le lendemain plutôt que laissé en attente. Ça n'attend pas de rendez-vous, parce que le quai n'en utilise pas.

Tout. Marchandise chargée au plancher, conteneurs en surpoids, reefer, hazmat placardé, sous douane et in-bond, et hors gabarit. Si ça descend d'un châssis dans le sud de la Floride, ça descend ici.

Tout ce qu'il faut pour qu'elle continue d'avancer : palettiser et repalettiser, filmer, étiqueter, trier, compter à la pièce, reconditionner, et inspecter avec photos. Le service s'adapte à la marchandise plutôt qu'à un menu figé.

Oui. C'est exactement ça, la réception et expédition : nous prenons livraison à votre nom, nous contrôlons contre vos documents, nous vous disons ce qui est vraiment arrivé, nous gardons la marchandise aussi longtemps qu'il faut, et nous la réexpédions quand vous le dites.

À la journée ou à la palette, et ça s'adapte à la marchandise et à la quantité plutôt qu'à une grille rigide. Une semaine de débordement ne demande pas de négocier un bail, et une marchandise inhabituelle n'est pas forcée dans la mauvaise unité.

Venez au quai dans les horaires, premier arrivé premier servi, avec le bill of lading, le numéro de conteneur ou de booking, et le scellé. Un gilet de sécurité et des chaussures fermées peuvent être exigés sur le quai.

Yes. Tell us before we quote: residential streets, no dock, no forklift and tight turns all change the equipment and sometimes the price, and knowing ahead means the right truck arrives the first time.

The chassis in this network are yard-staged rather than drawn from the terminal pool, so a pool shortage is not what stops your container moving. That is a large part of the point of working with an asset-backed carrier rather than taking the cheapest quote.

No. The tunnel is closed to oversized loads and to placarded hazmat, so those leave the port over the Port Boulevard bridge and through downtown Miami instead. It is a longer route through city streets and it needs planning, which is why we ask about dimensions before we quote rather than after.

Le dernier jour où votre conteneur peut rester à l'intérieur du terminal avant que les frais de stockage commencent. Passé ce jour, le demurrage s'accumule chaque jour, et c'est pour ça qu'un pre-pull revient presque toujours moins cher que d'attendre.

Nous récupérons le conteneur au terminal avant que vous soyez prêt et nous le gardons sur un parc. Ça arrête le demurrage aux tarifs du terminal et ça enlève la pression sur vos horaires de réception.