Container haulage
Cork Port to anywhere in Ireland.
Container haulage out of Tivoli and Ringaskiddy. Skeletal, side-loader, reefer, ADR, open-top, flat-rack, out-of-gauge. Customs handled. Live tracking on every load.
Container haulage out of Tivoli and Ringaskiddy. Skeletal, side-loader, reefer, ADR, open-top, flat-rack, out-of-gauge. Customs handled. Live tracking on every load.
Container haulage is the backbone of what FMC does. We collect from Cork Port — Tivoli and Ringaskiddy — and deliver anywhere on the island. Dublin Port on request.
The fleet is built for it. Modern Scania, Volvo, and Renault tractors. Skeletal trailers for standard 20ft, 40ft, and 45ft. A Megalift side-loader trailer for sites that don't have lift equipment of their own. Genset trailers for reefer containers — powered from port to door without sourcing third-party power on collection. ADR-trained drivers for hazardous loads.
Every cab fitted with Samsara — meaning live GPS tracking, dashcam, and ETA visibility on every load. The same standard our enterprise customers expect, applied to every job we run.
Most hauliers can move a container. Far fewer can leave one on the ground at a site that has no crane and no forklift. We can — because we run a Megalift side-loader.
A side-loader is a specialist trailer with two hydraulic lifting arms. It picks a container off the ground onto the trailer — or sets it down in a designated spot — without needing a port crane, customer forklift, or any lift equipment on site.
For the customer, this is the difference between "we can deliver Tuesday" and "we can deliver Tuesday and leave it where you actually want it." No coordinating with a crane hire. No third-party lift charges. No standing the truck idle while a forklift gets sourced.
It also opens up sites that are otherwise off-limits to container freight — building sites, manufacturing yards, storage compounds, rural premises. If a forklift can't reach it, our side-loader probably can.
If it lands at Cork Port, we can move it. Standard boxes, temperature-controlled, hazardous, oversized, awkward — the trailer mix is built for the full spec.
Skeletal trailers configured for 20ft, 40ft, and 45ft boxes. The day-to-day work.
Temperature-controlled containers powered by our own genset trailers — power on the move from port to door, no third-party sourcing.
ADR-certified drivers for containers carrying classified hazardous cargo. Box freight, not tanks.
For freight that's too tall for a standard box — machinery, tanks, columns, oversized plant.
For loads that don't fit a box at all. Awkward dimensions, project cargo, structural items.
Faster side loading and unloading. Useful when forklift access from the rear isn't workable.
Abnormal-dimension freight — over-height, over-width, over-length. Coordinated with the right trailer.
Self-loading and self-unloading. For sites with no lift equipment of their own.
The route map is straightforward. Containers come off the quay, through our yard at Ovens if needed, and on to the consignee — anywhere from the Cork suburbs to Donegal.
Cross-docking, short-term storage, and warehousing are available on the same site if the load needs to break or stage on the way through.
Post-Brexit, container haulage and customs are inseparable. We handle the customs side directly so customers aren't stitching together a haulier on one side and a customs agent on the other.
That means cleared collections from port, T1 transit documentation, bonded movements where needed, and the paperwork done before the box leaves the quay — not after.
Smaller hauliers without this capability either hand it off to a third party or pass the headache to the customer. We handle it.
Container haulage is competitive. The reasons our customers stay are specific, and they're consistent.
46-tonne tractors, current-generation. Samsara dashcam in every cab.
Mechanics on-site at Ovens. Less downtime, deliveries don't slip.
Customers get ETA visibility, not "we'll call you when we're 20 minutes away."
Quality, safety, and feed-grade certifications maintained year-on-year.
Tell us what's landing, where from, where to, and when. Same-working-day quote.