Browse job descriptions commonly used by Yard companies.
Run the back office of the depot commercial desk: tariff records, quotations, lease and storage agreements and throughput reporting.
Win the container volume that fills the depot: line nominations, leasing company depots and the M&R work that carries the margin.
Protect the line and lessor relationships that supply the depot's containers, where a stock accuracy failure or a rejected repair estimate can lose the nomination.
Own the depot's revenue and nomination book, build the commercial team and grow the M&R and value-added services that earn more than storage alone.
Learn how an empty container depot works, supporting the desk with gate records, stock tracking and daily reporting.
Control the gate, because in a depot the equipment interchange receipt issued at the gate is the document that decides who pays for every dent found later.
Run the yard so containers are stacked by grade, type and owner and can be retrieved without the rehandles that eat the depot's margin.
Own the stock number the customer sees, because a depot's whole commercial relationship rests on the line trusting the count it is given every morning.
Manage the release and allocation of empty containers so lines get the right unit, in the right grade, without rejections at the shipper's door.
Run the depot on shift: gate flow, yard moves, repair bay throughput and the safety of a site full of moving stackers and stacked steel.
Own depot operational delivery and cost: gate throughput, yard capacity, repair bay output, stock integrity and the safety record on a high-hazard site.
Own stock integrity and equipment control across the depot, because the depot's licence to keep a line's containers rests entirely on being able to account for every one of them.
Inspect every container against IICL criteria and decide what is damage, what is wear and what the owner will accept, because that judgement decides who pays.
Carry out the physical repair that returns a container to cargo-worthy condition, to the standard the owner and the surveyor will accept.
Price every repair and get it approved, because an estimate rejected by the owner is work the depot either does not do or does not get paid for.
Run the repair bay: throughput, quality, cost and the estimate-to-approval cycle that determines how much revenue the depot converts.
Test and repair reefer machinery so units released from the depot will hold temperature for the whole voyage, because a failure at sea destroys the cargo.
Own the reefer service line, the depot's most technical and highest-margin work, where the customer is buying confidence that the box will hold temperature.
Own the depot's technical revenue and quality: repair, reefer, cleaning and modification, which together earn more than storage and are what owners actually audit.
Keep people alive on a site where reach stackers move between stacks of steel boxes and technicians do hot work inside confined containers.
Keep the depot management system, gate devices and handhelds working, because a depot that cannot record a gate move or an EIR loses both the stock record and the billing.
Bill every lift, storage day and repair correctly, because a depot earns in small charges across thousands of movements and unbilled ones are gone.
Own finance, administration and people for the depot: reporting, controls, cash, compliance and the labour that keeps the yard and workshop staffed.
Rotate through the core functions of a container depot and come out able to run a desk in operations, inventory, M&R or commercial.
Run the depot as a business: its throughput, its stock integrity, its repair revenue, its safety record and the nominations that keep containers coming through the gate.
Set the strategy and direction of the depot business and be accountable to the board for growth, profitability, safety and the customer trust the whole model rests on.
