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DRAY Alliance's focus on dual transactions is causing more chassis availability for its driver network, reducing dry runs, as a result, reports the American Journal of Transportation.
A dry run occurs in drayage when a chassis is unavailable for the driver to move a shipping container from a cargo ship.
In the first half, 84 per cent of Dray Alliance's transactions at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach were dual transactions; returning an empty container and freeing the corresponding chassis for another load.
Dray Alliance's rate of dual transactions was 30 per cent higher than the standards reported by four terminals at Port of Long Beach and Port of Los Angeles.
"Dry runs cost everybody time and money, especially drivers," said Dray Alliance CEO Steve Wen.
"Dray Alliance leverages the strength of our carrier network to retrieve empty containers and get them and the chassis back into the terminal and back into circulation."
"Chassis availability has continually been an issue since the middle of the pandemic," said Mr Wen.
"It's like a chicken and egg scenario - drayage can't move the containers without chassis, and chassis often stay with the containers until they're unloaded. Our emphasis on dual transactions allows for carriers to get empty containers off of warehouse chassis and, in turn, use those to carry out full loads from the ports."
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