Agricultural freight, in both directions.

Empty positioning, live-bottom equipment and consolidation for growers, processors and importers of agricultural product.

What we bring

Four things that decide whether the crop ships.

Equipment, timing and paperwork in one place.

Overview photo of Amar Group container yard with hundreds of containers in storage

Empty positioning from owned depots

Boxes staged out of our own 300 acres rather than queued for at a terminal, so equipment is where the crop is when the crop is ready.

Container Depot & Equipment Services
Amar Group Live Bottom Trailer transporting granular materials

Farm and processor drayage

Live-bottom trailers for granular product and reefer capacity for perishables, dispatched from terminals across the network.

Ocean Freight
Warehousing employee moving freight pallets utilizing forklift

Transload and export consolidation

Marine and domestic conversion where it saves, with consolidation for exporters shipping below full-container volumes.

Custom Clearance & Trade Compliance

In-house documentation

Import entries, export declarations, B13A/AES filings and certificates of origin handled by our own customs desk.

Specialized Cargo
Proof

Seasonal volume against owned equipment.

Agricultural freight is the clearest test of whether a logistics company holds anything. Demand arrives in a compressed window, every exporter in the region wants equipment in the same fortnight, and a broker’s answer is that the market is tight.

Amar’s answer is a depot. Empties come off our own yards, drays run on our own trucks, and the export entry is filed by our own desk — which is why harvest capacity can be committed in advance rather than hoped for.

Agricultural freight is an equipment problem before it's a freight problem.

Harvest doesn’t negotiate. The container has to be at the processor clean, on time, in the volume the crop dictates, during the weeks the crop dictates. Miss that window and the product sits — and the freight rate stops being the thing anyone cares about.

Most exporters are queuing for a carrier’s empty at a terminal with other priorities. Amar positions empties out of our own depots, drays from farm and processor to the ramp, transloads where it saves, and files the export declaration in-house — so the paperwork isn’t a second vendor’s timeline sitting on top of the crop’s.

300

Acres of Staging Ground

Empties positioned from our own depots, ready for harvest volume.

1000

Dry Containers

Owned equipment, so capacity is committed rather than queued for.

1000

Reefer Containers

Temperature-controlled capacity for perishable export.


Move your next shipment with one accountable partner.

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.


How it moves

Farm gate to vessel.

STEP 01
Plan the season
Volumes and harvest windows mapped to equipment and export space ahead of the crop, not during it.
STEP 02
Position empties
Clean boxes staged from Amar depots to the processor or farm on the date required.
STEP 03
Dray and transload
Live-bottom or reefer equipment to the ramp, with transload where it improves the economics.
STEP 04
File and load
Export declaration, B13A/AES and certificates of origin filed in-house, in step with the loading.
STEP 05
Sail
Export space booked through our carrier relationships on the trades Canadian agriculture actually ships.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions from agriculture & export shippers.

Questions

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How far ahead should we commit harvest capacity?

Earlier than most exporters do. FIGURE NEEDED: confirm the booking lead time to publish for harvest-season commitments

Do you handle export documentation, or do we need a separate broker?

We file in-house. Export declarations, B13A/AES filings and certificates of origin are handled by our own CBSA-licensed desk under Licence No. 3416, on the same file as the freight.

Can you handle perishable export?

Yes. Genset chassis and plug capacity across the terminal network support temperature-controlled export as well as import, with monitoring on a four to six hour cycle.

Do you handle inbound agricultural product as well?

Yes. Inbound agricultural and food product moves on the same equipment and through the same clearance desk as export volume, with temperature-controlled capacity for perishables and bonded terminals where duty timing matters.