A depot an hour from the ramp is a storage yard. A depot beside it is operating infrastructure. Amar’s 300 acres sit next to the ports and the CN and CPKC ramps our customers actually use, which means an empty returned here is available again tomorrow rather than sitting in transit between yards.
For steamship lines and lessors that turns into interchange that doesn’t queue, equipment released fast rather than sitting idle, repairs coordinated on site, and units staged where the next booking will need them. For shippers it means the empty comes back to us instead of a congested marine terminal — and demurrage and detention get managed inside our own gate rather than argued about after the fact.
UIIA interchange at owned facilities beside the ports and ramps, with capacity that doesn’t depend on a terminal’s appointment book.
Loaded boxes held securely, under bond where duty timing requires it, in CBSA-approved facilities.
M&R managed on site, with 22 reach stacker cranes across the network so equipment is lifted and returned to service rather than joining a queue at a third-party yard.
Powered reefer positions with temperature checks logged every four to six hours.
Long-term staging and repositioning for carriers and lessors, with equipment held where the next booking will need it.
Fenced, monitored, owned yards — the reason a good deal of high-value freight chooses to ground here overnight.
Depot security is usually a claim nobody quantifies. Ours is a number: across 300 acres of owned yard, zero thefts.
That matters commercially, not just operationally. High-value retail, automotive and consumer freight grounds overnight somewhere on every inland move, and the yard it grounds in is the part of the chain shippers have least visibility into. Ours is ours.
Units received under UIIA at an owned facility, inspected on arrival and recorded against the interchange.
Damage identified and M&R coordinated on site, so the unit returns to service instead of waiting for a slot elsewhere.
Empty, laden or bonded storage as required, with powered positions and monitoring for reefer equipment.
Staged and released where the next booking needs it, on Amar equipment, from a yard beside the ramp.
Yes. Interchange is handled under UIIA at our owned facilities, alongside our CBSA bonded and US bonded authorities.
Yes. Laden storage is available, including under bond in CBSA-approved space — often the cheaper answer when the alternative is demurrage at a marine terminal.
Yes. Powered positions with temperature checks logged every four to six hours, on the same cycle used across the terminal network.
Repairs are coordinated on site so units return to service quickly.
Send us a lane, a commodity and a volume. A pricing analyst responds within one business day with pricing broken out by leg — ocean, customs, rail, drayage and storage — so you can see what each stage costs.
