Seattle to Kansas City Freight Shipping

LTL shipping from Seattle to Kansas City involves a number of different considerations, but the process is made easy with Koho. While both Seattle and Kansas City have capable freight shipping and transportation networks built into their infrastructure to move multimodal LTL shipments with ease, Koho examines the local market and determines which carriers can offer the best LTL rate per pound for your cargo. Depending on the distance, weight, freight class, minimum charges, base rates, and mode of transport, anything from door-to-door trucking to intermodal shipments that transfer between air, sea, rail, or motorized freight can be utilized to achieve the most efficient and cost-effective route for your LTL shipment. Whether shipping to or from Seattle or Kansas City, Koho will explore not only the best mode of transport available that fits your shipping needs, but also the market capacities of each city’s respective region. The amount of LTL cargo arriving or departing Seattle or Kansas City can vary depending on how tight or loose the market capacity, as well as the modes of transport being utilized most frequently, all of which can affect the price and speed of a shipment. Koho’s market capacity meter indicates that Seattle has a Tight Capacity and Kansas City has a Moderate Capacity. By examining available rates amongst Koho’s network of reliable carrier partners, we have found an average LTL rate per pound of $0.26 to ship from Seattle to Kansas City, and $0.34 from Kansas City to Seattle.

Benefitting from its central location and extensive infrastructure, Kansas City enjoys one of the top transportation and logistics networks in the country. The Missouri and Kansas Rivers provide shipping connections via waterways, and Kansas City’s central position amidst a coast-to-coast rail network gives the city unprecedented access to a number of regional markets throughout the Midwest. For motorized freight shipping, the city offers access to four major interstate highways and more freeway lane miles per capita of any city in the nation, and its geographical location gives it a single-day trucking proximity to nearly every major Midwestern market. Backed by extensive warehouse and logistics facilities, Kansas City has made the most of its prime position and sizable infrastructure to become one of the most capable movers of cargo in the United States.