Old Dominion opens first drayage facility in Washington

Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), a provider of inter-regional and national LTL service and value-added logistics services, has opened its first container drayage facility in Washington, US.

The company's new Seattle-Tacoma Drayage Operation will directly serve all ports, rail heads and container yards in the Pacific Northwest.

The facility's location gives the company direct access to Washington's two ports - Seattle and Tacoma - that together handled more than $70bn in cargo in 2010.

Old Dominion director of container operations Wayne Bersch said the ports in Seattle and Tacoma play a critical role in international trade to and from Asia.

"The Seattle-Tacoma drayage operation, which directly handles freight from these ports and other ports and rail yards across the Pacific Northwest, allows us to better serve our customers who ship both domestically and internationally," Bersch said.

The company's container drayage services include direct point-to-point delivery, loading, unloading, short term warehousing and container pools for the convenience of import and export shippers.