Effective Monday, Sept. 23, Everport Terminal Services Tacoma plans to deploy an appointment system utilizing eModal as the platform. For your reference, the following summarizes key points of interest along with a reference table showing the requirements for various transactions:
- Appointment slots will open 7 days in advance (subject to change).
- Appointments for the next day will close daily at 12 p.m. PST. Same day appointments will only be possible if an appointment was canceled the day of.
- Appointments will be for one-hour slots with 30-minute grace periods on each end of the hour. Each appointment therefore is valid for two hours when including grace periods.
- Reefer empty-out, reefer export-in, free-flow import-out, and wheeled import-out transactions will require an appointment for an estimated arrival time, however the appointment will be good for the entire day.
The chart below shows which transactions require appointments:
