Warehousing, drayage, transloading and fulfillment from one building in Kent, WA — minutes from the Seattle and Tacoma ports. Most 3PL distribution in Washington is three vendors in a trench coat; this is one company, one floor, one phone number.
We run a full range of logistics services out of Kent, and most customers use more than one. The pressure on a supply chain shifts constantly — a slow month, a peak, a new retailer with its own routing guide — so we build the work to flex: inbound and receiving, storage, pick and pack, returns, and the freight that connects them all.
A warehouse management system sits underneath the whole operation, so inventory is accurate and you can see stock in real time. Reserve stock for raw materials, ecommerce orders picked and shipped, returns put back on the shelf — the count on screen matches the count on the floor, which is what keeps a shipment from going wrong.
Where the savings come from is the unglamorous detail: the right carrier for the lane, full trucks instead of half-empty ones, and freight that isn't handled twice. From inventory control and order picking to carrier selection and quality checks, managing it end to end is how we keep your cost per order down and your accuracy up.
A third-party logistics provider takes physical custody of your goods and runs the operations around them — receiving, storage, order fulfilment, freight out, and in our case the drayage that brings an ocean container from the terminal in the first place. You keep the inventory and the customer; the building, the labour and the equipment are ours.
Handoffs are where freight and information get lost. When the drayman, the transload yard, the warehouse and the fulfilment operation are four companies, every seam is a delay and a phone call, and nobody owns the whole chain. Ours are two buildings and one company — the transload yard at 1531 Portland Ave E in Tacoma and the fulfilment warehouse at 8467 S 208th St in Kent — so the container is pulled, stripped, racked, picked and shipped by one team, and there is one number to call when something is wrong.
The fulfilment warehouse is at 8467 S 208th St, Kent, WA 98031, in the Kent Valley — the Pacific Northwest's densest warehousing corridor, sitting between the Port of Seattle and the Port of Tacoma on the I-5 spine. The transload and oversize yard is at 1531 Portland Ave E, Tacoma, WA 98421, in the tideflats with rail access, minutes from the Tacoma terminals.
From a brand shipping a few hundred orders a month to importers running full container programmes. The practical floor is not volume, it is fit — we are two facilities in one state, so a company that needs inventory in five regions at once needs a national network, and we will say so.
Yes, and that is the case we are built for. The container is pulled from the Seattle or Tacoma terminal before the last free day, stripped here, and the goods go straight onto the rack — so the freight never changes hands between vendors and never pays for a second move it did not need.
A conversation about your SKUs, order profile and inbound freight, then a quote against those real numbers rather than a rate card. From agreement to first shipment is usually a small number of weeks, and the longest part is almost always your side — getting the data clean before it arrives.
Written by the same team that runs the dock in Kent — the details behind the service on this page.
1PL to 4PL, what third-party logistics companies charge for, when outsourcing beats a lease — and the questions that expose a provider before you sign.
Three weeks or six months, and the difference is never the warehouse — it's how much messy work got done before the first pallet arrived.
Two identical-looking warehouses, very different error rates — the difference is software. What the WMS runs, and the questions that expose it before you sign.