PORT OF SEATTLE DRAYAGE
Port of Seattle Drayage & Transloading
Every hour a container sits at the terminal costs money. Long Road Warehouse runs fast, reliable drayage from the Port of Seattle to our Kent Valley facility — pulling your boxes before the Last Free Day and moving straight into transload or storage.
Container drayage that beats the clock
Ports charge demurrage when a container sits too long at the terminal and carriers charge per-diem when you hold the box too long after pickup. We track your Last Free Day, book the terminal appointment, and pull the container on time — protecting your margin from avoidable fees.
Why shippers pick this drayage carrier at the Port of Seattle
- Port-adjacent facility — a short, low-cost lane from the Seattle terminals to Kent.
- Chassis & appointments handled — we manage the terminal logistics so you don't.
- Real-time container status — know exactly where your freight is.
- Drayage + warehousing together — one partner from terminal to shelf.
From terminal to transload in one move
The biggest savings come from combining port drayage with the next step. We pull your container, transload it into domestic trailers or into storage, and keep it moving — no second vendor, no extra handoff. Boxes arriving by rail ride the same lane: see intermodal drayage.
What freight in Port of Seattle actually looks like
Terminal 5, 18 and 30 each run their own appointment rhythm, and the difference between a clean pull and a demurrage invoice is usually whether someone booked early and watched the last free day. Congestion here moves in waves with vessel arrivals rather than staying constant.
Moving freight between Port of Seattle and our Kent floor
The lane runs north on I-5 or SR-99 to the terminals, and the natural gateway is the Port of Seattle. That matters more than it sounds: a short, predictable move means we can pull a container the day it is available, unload it into our warehouse, and start shipping from inventory instead of paying to store freight on a chassis. We also serve Seattle, SeaTac, Kent, so freight moving between them can be consolidated rather than run as separate partial loads.
Day to day that means storage by the pallet instead of a fixed lease, pick and pack for orders going out, cross-docking when freight should not be stored at all, and container drayage when it starts at a terminal. One team, one warehouse, one invoice.
Common questions from Port of Seattle shippers
Do I need a minimum volume to use a 3PL?
No. We bill by the pallet and by the order, so a Port of Seattle business shipping a few hundred orders a month is a normal account, not an exception. That is the point of using a warehouse instead of leasing one.
How fast can you get freight from Kent to Port of Seattle?
Port of Seattle is inside our regular delivery footprint, so same-day and next-day are both realistic depending on cut-off time and what else is on the truck. Tell us the delivery window you have promised and we will tell you honestly whether we can hold it.
Can you handle my imports too, not just storage?
Yes, and that is usually where the savings are. We pull the container from the Port of Seattle before the last free day, unload it at our dock, and put the freight straight into inventory — so you are not paying demurrage at the terminal and per-diem on the box while you look for space.
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REQUEST A QUOTEQuestions about Port of Seattle
Which Port of Seattle terminals do you pull from?
T-18, T-30 and T-46, plus the Seattle rail ramps. Working all of them rather than one is what lets a container be pulled on the day it is available instead of the day one terminal has an appointment.
How do you keep containers off demurrage?
By watching the last free day rather than the vessel. We track availability and the LFD on every box and pull before the clock starts, because demurrage begins the day after the free time ends and it is charged per container per day.
What happens to the empty container?
It goes back. Per-diem is the charge for holding the ocean carrier's box after the free days, and the cheapest way to stop it is to strip the freight here and return the empty on our own schedule — which is only possible when the drayage and the warehouse are one company.
Do you handle overweight containers out of Seattle?
Yes, on the equipment that can legally carry them. An overweight box needs the right chassis and often a permitted route, and the alternative — transloading the freight into two domestic trailers — is frequently the cheaper answer. We will price both.