Cross Dock

Ryan Transportation Group has a six door cross dock facility located in the Detroit Metro Area that enables us to provide service for:

  • Hub and Spoke arrangements, where materials are brought in to one central location and then sorted for delivery to a variety of destinations
  • Consolidation arrangements, where a variety of smaller shipments are combined into one larger shipment for economy of transport
  • Deconsolidation arrangements, where large shipments (e.g. railcar lots) are broken down into smaller lots for ease of delivery
  • Streamlines the supply chain from point of origin to point of sale
  • Reduces handling costs, operating costs, and the storage of inventory
  • Products get to the distributor and consequently to the customer faster
  • Reduces or eliminates warehousing costs