Lance McClanahan
Chief Executive Officer · Retired Marine Corps officer
Lance acquired Ramar Transportation in May 2025 after retiring from the Marine Corps as an officer. The company has been moving dangerous goods on the Atlantic Coast since 1992 from the same yard outside Wilmington, North Carolina — seven miles from the Port of Wilmington and five miles from the Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point.
The integrated, one-operator operating model is Lance's initiative. The company under prior ownership ran without a structured positioning. Lance reframed Ramar around a single thesis — dangerous goods should move under one operator from origin to destination — and built out the capabilities to deliver it: drayage, transload, secure holding, long-haul, ammunition-grade container preparation, Wilmington Fire Marshal escort coordination, and licensed brokerage all run as one chain of custody, under one USDOT, not as separate vendor contracts.
Lance brings Marine Corps operating discipline and SDVOSB veteran-owned status to a 30-plus-year operating record. The combination is why Ramar holds defense and commercial customers through DOT audits, vessel delays, and contract re-bids: there is nothing to fragment when the operator the customer hired is the operator at every step.