Chassis pool to open in October for seaports all through South Atlantic area

Motor carriers will quickly acquire entry to a pool of fifty,000 chassis all through the South Atlantic area, following right now’s opening of the onboarding portal for the South Atlantic Chassis Pool (SACP 3.0), in response to its supervisor, Consolidated Chassis Administration (CCM).

The portal opening follows a “comfortable launch” that started in June, and can start offering chassis in October. Registered customers will be capable of entry CCM’s new and refurbished chassis over a community of 75 areas in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

The pool will provide greater than 50,000 new and refurbished chassis to truckers, useful
 cargo house owners, ocean carriers, and different customers. The pool is being established cooperatively by The Ocean Provider Gear Administration Affiliation (OCEMA), Georgia Ports Authority (GPA), Jacksonville Port Authority (JaxPort), North Carolina State Ports Authority (NC Ports), and Consolidated Chassis Administration LLC (CCM).

“CCM is dedicated to offering the intermodal group within the South Atlantic with the
 instruments and assets vital to make sure a clean chassis provisioning expertise,” CCM CEO Mike Wilson stated in a launch. “SACP 3.0 represents an evolution in chassis provisioning in the USA. Agile and scalable, the brand new mannequin is designed to fulfill the ever-changing wants of our clients within the area.”

The opening follows the approval of the plan in 2022 by Federal Maritime Fee (FMC) regulators, who stated the transfer might assist relieve container port congestion and velocity cargo turnover at busy maritime logistics websites.

In keeping with CCM, the brand new portal will improve and improve the present South Atlantic Chassis pool with new and refurbished intermodal chassis from regional ports and intermodal inland hubs. These new chassis have begun arriving at Georgia Ports, Jaxport, and NC Ports.

“Motor carriers are a important side of the intermodal community,” Gene Bambach, CCM’s director, enterprise supplier relations, stated in a launch. “This pool is being created to make motor carriers as environment friendly and worthwhile as attainable, offering state-of-the-art chassis the place and once they want them at the most effective pricing construction out there within the Southeast. Motor carriers ought to register properly prematurely of the October 1 begin date to assist guarantee uninterrupted service and keep away from chassis penalty use costs for many who don’t register by that date.”