Containers stripped, palletised, put away.
Import freight arrives floor loaded and has to be turned into something a rack can hold. That is devanning, and doing it near the port is the whole point.
What is container devanning?
Container devanning is unloading an import container and consolidating its contents onto pallets. Ocean freight is often floor loaded to maximise cube, so it arrives with no pallets and cannot be racked or shipped domestically until it has been devanned and restacked.
The work is unglamorous and it is where import timelines are usually won or lost. A container that sits waiting to be stripped is accruing demurrage at the terminal and per diem on the box itself.
Why does devanning close to the port matter?
A floor-loaded container is the least efficient way to move goods overland. Every mile driven before devanning moves air and hand-stacked cartons rather than pallets. Devanning near the port shortens that leg and returns the box sooner, which is what limits demurrage and per diem.
Our facility sits in Fort Lauderdale, close to Port Everglades and to Miami. For import volume entering through South Florida, the drayage leg before devanning is short.
| Outcome | Billed as | When it fits |
|---|---|---|
| Racked and stored | Storage per position | Destination not yet known |
| Shipped straight out | Outbound handling only | Destination known on arrival |
| Held short term then released | Overflow storage | Waiting on a delivery window |
Three ways a container ends. One dock.
Palletised and put away
Cartons are built to pallets, wrapped and racked into numbered positions. Billed from that point as storage, per position per month.
Devanned and reloaded
The load goes from container to outbound trailer without being put away, so there is no storage line at all, only the handling.
Staged for a delivery window
Palletised and held for the weeks until a receiving appointment opens, then released. Overflow terms rather than a term agreement.
All three start with the same job: a floor-loaded box stripped by hand and the contents made into pallets. What changes afterwards is only how long they stay.
Tell us what you need to store.
Pallet count and dwell time are the two figures that set the price. Send those and you get real numbers back, not a discovery call.
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