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Container yard management
Container yard management applies YMS discipline to intermodal and port-adjacent yards — gate capture for container and chassis identity, staging zones, dwell by visit, and handoff to dock or rail on one timeline.
Scope
Container and intermodal vs DC trailer yards
Distribution center yards mostly track trailers and appointments. Container and intermodal yards add equipment types — container ID, chassis, rail or port cutoffs — and tighter demurrage exposure. The software pattern is the same: one visit record from gate-in through gate-out.
Buyers search container yard management, intermodal yard management, and port yard management as related phrases. floDock maps them to this topic cluster, not separate competing pillars.
Gate
Gate capture for containers
Gate teams capture container numbers, chassis, seals, and documents at check-in — the same structured capture model as trailer yards, with site-configured required fields for intermodal rules.
Glossary
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Terms
Also known as
These phrases refer to the same concept: container yard software, container yard management software, intermodal yard management, intermodal terminal yard, port yard management, container terminal yard.
Questions
Common questions
Does floDock replace a terminal operating system (TOS)?
floDock is a yard management system for visit lifecycle, gate, map, dock, and closeout — complementary to TOS and rail systems. Integrations send structured events at gate-out and milestones via API or webhooks.
See it on your own gates and docks.
Tell us how a truck visit runs at your sites. We will walk through the record it leaves, from booking to gate-out.
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