For deployment operations you need the capability to facilitate movement of cargo off of vessels and stacking them onto trucks — which company can do that?

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The key idea is coordinating the intermodal transfer where cargo moves from ships to land transportation. ICTC is the unit designed to handle that exact function—organizing offloading from vessels, staging the cargo, and stacking it onto trucks in the correct sequence and timeliness, while coordinating with ground transport to maintain throughput and safety. This hub-like capability is what makes maritime lift and onward movement efficient and integrated into the wider deployment plan.

Other units perform important roles, but they don’t focus on the end-to-end cargo transfer from ship to truck. A Logistics Support Company provides broader sustainment tasks, a Transportation Battalion handles movement on the road network, and a Deployment Control Unit focuses on overall deployment planning and control. The ICTC specifically targets the cargo transfer at the maritime–ground interface, which is why it’s the best fit for this capability.