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Rail Transloading

FW Warehousing's central location makes us your ideal rail transloading and crossdocking partner for the Midwest. Saving you both time and money, our St. Louis rail transport is ideal with rail freight connections with UP/BNSF, CN, UP, BNFS or even NS/CSX.

FW Trucking is there to pick up and move your cargo to our central U.S. 1.2M square foot distribution facility.  Services we provide include:

  • Container loading and unloading
  • Bulk Transfer
  • Bulk Container Transloading
  • Rail Super Sak Transloading
  • Crossdocking Services Rail to Truck
  • Slipsheet Rail Transloading
  • UPS Direct Rail
  • St. Louis Transloading & Crossdocking
  • Drop shipping from our Midwest strategic location

With a powerful Warehouse Management System (WMS) you can track those rail shipments (even International rail shipments) 24/7/365.

FW Warehousing serves all major cities including Los Angeles, Seattle, Atlanta, Memphis, New York, and Dallas with integrated rail logistics.

Rail expertise includes:

  • Boxcar Tracing
  • Intermodal Service
  • Truck-Rail Conversion
  • Rail Transloading Solutions for Dry & Climate Controlled Product

Our warehouse facilities include:

  • A.I.B. Superior Rated Warehousing
  • Hazardous Materials Warehousing
  • Climate controlled environments

FW Warehousing is a one-source rail service provider with full third party logistics including LTL, general warehousing, secondary contract packaging, and drop shipping capabilities.

The FW Warehousing seamless rail unloading solution includes:

  • Stripping or stuffing cargo on the rail box
  • Transporting your goods via our shuttle trucks for distribution from the Midwest (a very cost-effective solution for both warehouse and drop ship destinations)
  • EE rated forklifts
  • Rail Super Sak specialized equipment
  • Bulk container transloading equipment
  • Bulk transfer equipment
  • Drum clamps
  • Slip sheet equipment available to best handle your cargo.

Rail crossdocking services from FW Warehousing can include the use of our 1.2M square feet of rail accessible Midwest secure warehousing space, or shipping from the incoming rail car to the final outbound destination can be handled at the rail yard. We offer staging to best re-distribute your rail containers.

Cross-docking Services include:

  • Car maintenance management
  • Complete rail supply chain management
  • Consolidation of truckload shipments into carload
  • Customer service interface (single point of contact)
  • Customs clearance
  • Deconsolidation arrangements, where large shipments (e.g. railcar lots) are broken down into smaller lots for ease of delivery.
  • Deconsolidation of carload to multi-truckload, truckload, or LTL (hyperlink to ltl page)
  • Demmurage / bad order management
  • Demurrage reduction
  • EDI waybilling
  • Empty railcar ordering
  • Empty railcar release
  • Freight bill payment
  • In-transit visibility
  • Loading configuration / design
  • Mode conversion
  • Multi-modal coordination (truckload, rail, transload, special equipment)
  • Private fleet analysis / management
  • Reporting / event notification
  • Track and trace
  • Velocity and diversion improvement planning
  • Web visibility / transit statistics
  • WMS for 24/7/365 warehouse tracking of inventory and shipments

FW Warehousing has commodity and product experience in the following type of freight (but not limited to):

  • Automotive
  • Chemicals
  • Components
  • Consumer goods
  • Metals
  • Refrigerated food ingredients and finished food products

FW Warehousing can additionally handle your cross-docked freight all the way to the consumer through our fulfillment expertise.


 
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(618) 271-5500 : Main
(618) 482-8710 : Dispatch
(800) 470-7343 : Toll Free
(618) 482-8712 : Sales
sales@fwwarehousing.com
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