Drayage of Class 1 dangerous goods through the City of Wilmington to the Port of Wilmington requires a Fire Marshal escort under city ordinance. Historically, that escort coordination has been handled by a separate layer of shipping agents — a third-party desk that freight forwarders had to engage on top of their carrier and on top of the port itself. The result is a four-vendor chain (forwarder → agent → drayman → port) for what is operationally a single move.
Ramar holds a permit issued by the Wilmington Fire Department for Class 1 dangerous-goods drayage to the port with Fire Marshal escort. The escort coordination is now handled directly by Ramar dispatch — same operator, same shipping papers, same chain of custody as the drayage itself. Forwarders no longer need to engage an additional shipping agent for this leg; the carrier they hired is the carrier that arranges the escort.
This is a Wilmington-specific capability. Other Atlantic Coast ports have their own escort and routing protocols handled inside our standard drayage service. The Fire Marshal Escort offering exists because the Wilmington-specific permit and process is uniquely friction-heavy — and because Ramar is now positioned to remove that friction.