Industrial Warehousing for Imported Freight
Non-food-grade warehousing for manufacturers, importers, distributors and industrial shippers, storage, container unloading, transloading, cross-docking and distribution.
What industrial warehousing means here
Industrial warehousing is storage and handling for freight that is not food, not ecommerce and not small parcel. It covers steel and metals, lumber and building materials, packaging, electronics, solar panels, machinery, plastics, furniture, components and general industrial goods, freight that is characterized by weight, dimensions, container volume and handling requirements rather than order velocity.
The practical difference shows up in what qualifies a building. For industrial freight, the qualifying criteria are floor load rating, clear height, door dimensions, handling equipment, dock count relative to container throughput, and yard space, not pick-path design or parcel carrier integration.
Services around the storage
- Container unloading (de-vanning), including floor-loaded freight that must be palletized.
- Short-term and long-term storage, indoor, covered or open laydown.
- Transloading from ocean containers into domestic 53 ft trailers or flatbeds.
- Cross-docking where freight moves from inbound to outbound without storage.
- Drayage coordination between the terminal and the warehouse.
- Staged release and distribution against production or project schedules.
- Re-palletizing, sorting, banding, wrapping and inspection.
- Inventory reporting at SKU, lot or serial level where the commodity requires it.
Short-term versus long-term
Short-term industrial warehousing absorbs an import surge, a schedule slip or a general order risk, it is priced higher per unit and sourced for availability. Long-term warehousing supports an ongoing program and is priced on committed space and throughput. Most importers need both: a committed base plus overflow capacity for peak arrival weeks.
Commodity Warehousing Programs
Coils, sheets, plate, bundled and long products with heavy floor loads.
Dimensional, engineered wood and palletized building materials.
Containerized and palletized modules, surge and long-term storage.
Corrugated, components and palletized industrial packaging.
Imported components with security and climate considerations.
Heavy, oversized and crated industrial equipment.
Bagged pellets, super sacks, gaylords, sheet and industrial film.
Passenger, truck and OTR tires, rubber bales and industrial rubber goods.
Paper rolls, pulp bales, board and industrial roll stock.
Aftermarket parts, subassemblies, returnable racks and components.
Tile, stone, slabs, fixtures, cladding and finish materials.
Need industrial warehouse capacity?
Send the freight specification and we'll identify warehouse options that may fit your requirements.