Los Angeles / Long Beach
The San Pedro Bay complex moves more containers than any gateway in the Western Hemisphere — and burns more free time, per diem, and chassis money than any of them too.
Operating notesDrayage & Port Operations
Every major gateway. One countdown discipline.
Free time, chassis, appointments, and per diem work differently at every port — the process that beats them doesn’t. Operating notes by gateway:
Houston
Port Houston is the Gulf's container workhorse — Bayport and Barbours Cut keep growing, resin and project cargo keep coming, and the math on free time is just as unforgiving as the coasts.
Operating notesSavannah
Garden City Terminal is the largest single container terminal in North America, and Savannah's growth keeps testing its seams — berth waits in surge years, rail dwell, and a chassis market that tightens fast.
Operating notesNew York / New Jersey
The East Coast's biggest gateway is also its most operationally dense: multiple terminals, bridge and tunnel constraints, appointment systems that fill fast, and some of the highest per diem exposure in the country.
Operating notesDallas / Fort Worth (rail ramps)
Home turf.
Operating notesLaredo (cross-border)
Laredo is the busiest land port in the hemisphere — the artery for nearshored manufacturing moving between Mexico and the U.S.
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