SCF’s intermodal container solutions are flexible, cost-effective and available-on-demand.
They can help your business keep up with changing freight profiles while enhancing fleet utilisation, lowering operational costs and unlocking new growth opportunities.
If you’re looking for a reason to expand your fleet with intermodal containers, there are almost too many to choose from. Here are five of the biggest.
1. Gain a new level of flexibility and ease
With SCF intermodal containers, functionality meets flexibility.
They’re purpose-designed for Australian road and rail transport, meaning they share the traditional trailer features you know and love but with the added ability to swap out skel and container combinations in as little as five minutes.
This opens the door to a huge range of freight options and new potential revenue streams.
SCF, with its tautliners and refrigerated containers, end-door or side-door options and multiple sizes on offer, can provide the skel-and-container combination you need to transport all types of freight.
2. Save on operating costs
Skel-and-container solutions can be a cost-effective way to grow your fleet. According to SCF, leasing a refrigerated container can set you back 25 per cent less than leasing a refrigerated trailer.
SCF’s intermodal containers are also purpose-designed and built to last, meaning lower ongoing repair costs.
Additionally, all leased containers can be managed by SCF – eliminating the need to spend money on workshop staff to keep equipment in shape.
Intermodal containers are also a great way to optimise fleet utilisation.
“A trailer could complete two deliveries in one day, for a total of $800 in revenue,” a SCF spokesperson said.
“But 20 days of that trailer sitting idle could cost you as much as $16,000. Multiply that by every unused trailer in the depot, and the costs of an under-utilised fleet becomes strikingly clear.”
With intermodal solutions, you can get those unused skels back out onto the road where they can keep bringing in maximum revenue.
3. Unlock new revenue and opportunities
Intermodal solutions can also help your business find new ways to earn money.
Freight requirements and profiles change regularly, and keeping up can be a challenge. Trailer availability issues can cause delays, and those delays can cause missed deadlines, lost opportunities and unsatisfied clients. But because intermodal solutions are always readily available, your business can jump on all those opportunities and more.
By simply swapping out containers, a single skel could service both dry and refrigerated goods. You could keep up with seasonal demand by expanding or contracting your fleet in line with evolving market conditions and you could even branch out into different territories to discover new revenue streams.
4. Great availability and accessibility
Should your business ever decide to venture into new territories, your intermodal solutions can venture there with you. That’s because SCF is home to a nationwide network of depots located all across Australia.
SCF is also committed to high stock levels with more than 16,000 units ready to be put to work.
If the standard containers available don’t quite fit the bill, SCF is on hand to help. Its dedicated team is highly experienced in designing bespoke solutions to solve different freight challenges.
5. The simplicity of partnering with SCF
With SCF, gaining the benefits of an intermodal solution is easy.
With 30 years of of experience, SCF closely collaborates with its customers to determine the right container configurations to meet their unique briefs. Then, it undertakes a phased rollout approach which is carefully designed to implement the solution with maximum efficiency and minimal disruption.
Talk to SCF and work with its expert team of consultants to enhance your fleet and grow your business with intermodal container solutions.
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