Sea Star creates new intermodal options

Sea Star creates new intermodal options

Sea Star Line, the Puerto Rico and Eastern Caribbean trades carrier, has started offering new intermodal rates for rail and truck shipments in eight states in the Midwest and West.

   Sea Star on Sunday introduced the 'rail controlled carrier rate' and an 'all motor rate' from Jacksonville to Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah.

   Sea Star said the domestic rail container rate will reduce inland costs for customers, because the rail rate is lower than all-motor charges. Sea Star was already offering the domestic rail rate on a limited basis, but has now expanded the option to those eight states.

   Cargo must be palletized, preferably on four-foot by three-foot pallets, and must be transferred at Sea Star's Jacksonville terminal into Sea Star's intermodal equipment. Shipments must be booked on a 'door' basis, with no rail ramp service provided on domestic rail controlled containers.

   For customers that do not want to rail services, the alternative is an 'all motor' rate via Jacksonville in Sea Star equipment. Sea Star noted the motor option to the inland states is more expensive, but customers will still have that option.