Food and Beverage Logistics

Solve your unique beverage, food and produce hauler challenges with InTek

Shipping food and beverages comes with challenges like maintaining freshness, controlling temperature, and handling fragile items. So using the right food transportation service is vital to getting your important freight to its destination in the right condition - ensuring safe consumer enjoyment.

With decades of consumer goods logistics experience here at InTek Intermodal, we’ll make sure your cargo is packed correctly, kept at the right temperature, and delivered quickly at a fair price - with temperature-controlled intermodal and trucking options that work for produce transportation, or just about any food and beverage product.

Streamlining the food and beverage supply chain

While any supply chain deals with uncertainties, the number of food and beverage challenges are more unique. Regulations - in place to protect the public from food-borne illness - are plentiful and include customs clearances beyond other goods. And ensuring reefer capacity via truck or intermodal is tougher than procuring a typical dry container or trailer. But with years of experience in food service logistics and proven results backed by industry recognition as a top 3PL, InTek Intermodal makes traversing the food and beverage supply chain a breeze - offering reliable capacity and on-time, intact deliveries.

Temperature-controlled shipping services

Keeping food and beverages fresh is not just a "nice-to-have," it's a must. That means reliable temperature-controlled shipping - both via intermodal and truckload - is vital to ensure both refrigerated food transport and frozen food transportation. Discover the essentials of temp-control, including reefers, how it works and more.

Intermodal

While the first temperature-controlled freight thought for many takes them to truckload, refrigerated intermodal transport services provide a viable - and often preferable - alternative for produce logistics (AKA fruit and vegetable transportation) and many more food and beverage types. Reefer intermodal involves moving refrigerated containers and/or trailers via railroad for the long-haul and truck for the first and last mile. Temperature-controlled intermodal options offer shippers a steady, always-monitored cold chain with capacity that often saves money over truckload. All it takes is proper planning and a willingness to try it out, and you likely won't go back.

Trucking

Especially when flexibility and expedited options are necessary, temperature-controlled trucking services go to the front of the line. Whether it's securing fast frozen food transport or diversifying beverage logistics, reefer trucks can maintain a speedy cold chain. Depending on the size of the load, both full truckload and less-than-truckload (LTL) offer refrigerated options. All that matters is having a partner like InTek who's cultivated countless carrier relationships to ensure you find the most reliable capacity at the most competitive cost.

Food and beverage shipping across the US & Mexico

While food and beverage freight needs to traverse the U.S. to get to American consumers, many goods and products come from Mexico. And to get across the border, you'll need a successful Mexico freight shipping operation. Our connections across both countries - complete with innovative intermodal options - make InTek Logistics a strong choice for your business.

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Empower your business with innovative food and beverage solutions

Get your quote

Tell us about your business, and we'll craft a tailored food and/or beverage logistics solution just for you. Connect with one of our experts to kick off the conversation on how we can assist.

Review your proposal

Let's kickstart your tailored logistics journey. Once we understand your shipping requirements, we'll present options to move your food and beverage freight - and collaborate with you to find the perfect fit for your business.

Trust us to do the rest

Rest assured that you'll have one of our seasoned operations professionals, supported by a team of industry experts, dedicated to your long-term success and always ready to tackle any challenges -actively engaging to troubleshoot and enhance your shipping service.

Intermodal Weight & Damage Prevention

Learn how to ship food and beverages safely

The most common issue for shippers transitioning their freight - food and beverage or otherwise - from truckload to intermodal is loading the container to be legally compliant with gross weight - that and the distribution of weight across the vehicle. And of course, getting freight to its destination unspoiled and intact matters, too. Discover how to make it happen with our eBook "Intermodal Weight & Damage Prevention."