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10 Truck Drayage Productivity Guide
Load
Shipper
Export container
1 Booking 8
Drayage Create Bring Drop off
Dispatch Pick up
Drayage
Firm receives empty Empty to Load to
Firm
driver Empty
Booking order exporter terminal
2b 3 4 5 7 9
Terminal
2a 6 10
Terminal receives Terminal Terminal receives
Booking delivers Empty Load
Figure 24. Generic high-level export drayage process.
The empty container is then returned to the marine terminal where the driver goes through
the same basic gate and container yard subprocesses.
Export Drayage Process
Figure 24 displays a high-level map of the export drayage process. It differs from the import
drayage process in a few basic ways.
The cycle starts with an export booking by the shipper, essentially a reservation for an out-
bound container on a specific voyage. The booking is assigned a "booking number" and trans-
mitted to the drayage firm and the marine terminal. The marine terminal creates an Equipment
Delivery Order (EDO) or equivalent, giving the drayage firm permission to pick up an empty
container for the export load.
· The drayage firm should receive or confirm the empty order via the on-line systems as ex-
plained above. Doing so will reduce the chance of exception or delay at the marine terminal.
· A driver is dispatched to the terminal and goes through the applicable gate and container yard
processes to obtain the empty container.
· The empty container is drayed to the shipper's location. The driver either exchanges it for a
load (drop and pick) or waits while it is loaded (stay with).
· The loaded export container is then drayed to the marine terminal. The export booking num-
ber is the key transaction identifier at the gate.
Ordinarily, the export container or chassis is inspected and accepted, and an EIR issued. In the
absence of any exceptions, the driver will be given instructions on where to take the container within
the terminal. Finally, the driver will leave the load and either start another transaction or leave.
Empty Return Process
After the goods are unloaded from an import container, the empty container must either be
returned to the marine terminal, dropped at an off-terminal depot, or reused for an export load.
Return to Terminal
Most often, the empty container is returned to the marine terminal. At the inbound gate, the
driver will identify himself, his firm, and the transaction. The empty container and the chassis will
be inspected either in person or via video camera. The driver may be asked to open the doors to
