Forty-five years in logistics teaches you something.

We start with how you need to receive it and work backward from there: the receiving appointment, the equipment the receiver can take, the sailing that lands the trailer in time, the pickup that meets the sailing, the reservation window at the port. Big logistics networks are built for standardization. Kattz is built for flexibility.

Forty-five years in the industry means the ports, the terminals, the rail ramps and the barge lanes are familiar ground, and that the awkward shipment has usually been seen before in some form. When it hasn't, experience is what tells you which constraint to work first. The boat that was inches too tall was not a lucky guess; it was a problem worked from the physical facts.

Kattz is based in Nanaimo, the focal point of Vancouver Island freight, with our own tractors and drivers on the Island side and an active commercial barge account for the crossing. We know the receivers, the roads and the sailings, and we know that the Strait should never become your logistics department.

Not the cheapest truck; the smartest total movement. Only the equipment that needs to cross, crosses. The pickup is planned so the trailer doesn't sit on a dwell clock. The receiver is called before a problem, not after. Most of the money in logistics is in the handoffs, and that is where we watch it.