Transload is where dangerous goods change mode — truck to ocean container, rail car to truck, bulk to packaged — and where the vast majority of in-transit hazmat incidents originate. Ramar runs transload as a controlled operating sequence, not a forklift transfer. Every load is placarded, blocked, braced, and re-papered to meet the regulatory regime of the next mode before it leaves our facility.
We operate transload with the cargo profile in mind: Class 1 ammunition for export goes through ammunition-grade container preparation; Class 8 commercial chemicals go through compliance-checked stuffing for ocean carriage; rail-to-truck transload for Class 9 lithium batteries follows the lithium battery exception thresholds in 49 CFR 173.185.
Transload integrates upstream into our drayage and downstream into our secure in-transit holding. A transload is rarely a one-shot event — it's a checkpoint inside a longer port-to-plant motion that Ramar owns from start to finish.