TACOMA, WASHINGTON
Fulfillment, Warehousing & 3PL in Tacoma, WA
For importers moving freight through the Port of Tacoma, Long Road Warehouse is the short-haul, one-roof answer. Our Kent Valley facility is a quick run up SR-167 from the Tacoma terminals — so your containers move fast and your storage stays flexible.
Tacoma port logistics under one roof
The Port of Tacoma is one of the largest container gateways on the West Coast. We turn that gateway into a smooth flow: drayage from the terminals, transloading ocean containers into domestic trailers, storage, and fulfillment — no juggling separate vendors.
Why Tacoma importers work with us
- Beat demurrage & per-diem — we track the Last Free Day and pull containers on time.
- Short drayage lane — Tacoma to our Kent facility is a quick, low-cost move.
- Transload & distribute — strip the container, palletize, and ship onward the same visit.
- South Sound coverage — Tacoma, Fife, Federal Way, Puyallup and the wider region.
From the Port of Tacoma to final delivery
One team owns your freight from the terminal gate to the customer's door. See our drayage services or request a Tacoma 3PL quote to get started.
What freight in Tacoma actually looks like
Tacoma is a working port city, and the freight reflects it: containers off the Husky, Washington United and PCT terminals, plus heavy and oversize cargo that would not fit a normal parcel network. Tideflats warehousing is scarce and mostly spoken for, which is why most importers pull the box in Tacoma and store the freight up the valley.
Our Tacoma yard, and when the freight never leaves the tideflats
We run a transload and oversize yard at 1531 Portland Ave E, Tacoma, WA 98421, in the tideflats with rail access and heavy-lift equipment, alongside the fulfillment warehouse in Kent. That gives a Tacoma importer two answers instead of one. Freight that is going into inventory moves up the valley to Kent and goes on the rack. Freight that is oversize, overweight, rail-bound or simply needs to be stripped and put straight onto a domestic trailer can be worked in Tacoma and never make the trip at all.
That second case is the one that saves real money on heavy cargo. An overweight ocean container that cannot legally run on a standard chassis is an expensive problem if the only plan is to truck it somewhere; transloading it at the yard splits the load into legal domestic weights within sight of the terminal it came out of.
Moving freight between Tacoma and our Kent floor
The lane runs SR-167 south down the valley, or I-5, and the natural gateway is the Port of Tacoma. 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 Fife, Lakewood, Port of Tacoma, 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 Tacoma shippers
Do I need a minimum volume to use a 3PL?
No. We bill by the pallet and by the order, so a Tacoma 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 Tacoma?
Tacoma 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 Tacoma 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 Tacoma
Do you have a facility in Tacoma?
Yes — a transload and oversize yard at 1531 Portland Ave E in the Tacoma tideflats, with rail access and heavy-lift equipment, alongside the fulfillment warehouse in Kent. Containers can be stripped in Tacoma and the goods moved up the valley, or handled entirely at whichever site fits the freight.
Which Tacoma terminals do you pull from?
Husky, Washington United and PCT, plus the rail ramps. A carrier that only works one terminal will tell you the box has to sit until it can get in; working all of them is what keeps a container off demurrage.
What does drayage from the Port of Tacoma cost?
It depends on the terminal, the chassis, whether the box is overweight and how far it goes — which is why a single number on a website is always wrong. What we can say is that the Tacoma-to-Kent lane is short and predictable, so it prices as a local dray rather than a regional move.
Can you handle overweight and oversize containers?
Yes, and that is what the Tacoma yard is for: heavy-lift equipment, rail access and the room to work a box that will not fit a normal dock. Overweight ocean containers that cannot legally run on a standard chassis are routine here rather than an exception.
Do you do transloading in Tacoma?
Strip the ocean container, palletize the freight, reload onto a 53-foot domestic trailer, and send the empty box back before per-diem builds. That is the single most effective way to stop paying an ocean carrier rent on their own equipment.
Which South Sound cities do you deliver to?
Tacoma, Fife, Puyallup, Sumner, Federal Way, Lakewood, DuPont, Milton, Edgewood, Bonney Lake, Gig Harbor and the rest of Pierce County, on our own trucks. Further south — Olympia, Lacey, Tumwater, Centralia — runs as a scheduled lane.