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Container drayage
Capacity when and where you need it.
700+ trucks and 2,900+ owned chassis in the Gulf region. Port, rail, overweight, haz-mat and bonded moves, local, over the road or dedicated.
Container drayage→Port Houston and eight more markets
Drayage
solved.
Container drayage, port-side transloading and truckload for importers, exporters and the forwarders who book for them. 700+ trucks and 2,900+ owned chassis.
We drive value
from the first mile to the last.
Gulf Winds moves ocean containers for importers, exporters and their freight forwarders. We are the largest transportation provider for Port Houston, with yards in Dallas, Fort Worth, Mobile, Memphis, Savannah, Charleston, Norfolk and Baltimore.
Our own trucks, our own chassis and our own port-side warehouses, run by one team you can call.
Our own equipment
2,900+
Owned chassis
Our own fleet
700+
Trucks, local, OTR and dedicated
Lift on, lift off at our Houston terminal in Seabrook, with 25+ acres of secured yard.
00 MPH
Four services,
one point of contact.
Gulf Winds is a drayage, transloading and domestic freight provider for importers and exporters around the world. Book one service or all four, and the same coordinator runs your freight from the terminal to the final mile.
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Transloading
Maximize weight to minimize costs.
Ship heavy into our port-side warehouses at Barbour’s Cut and Bayport, then send the freight on at one-way van rates.
Transloading→03
Truckload
Single sourced solutions.
Dry van, flatbed, reefer, pneumatic and tanker through our carrier network, with one point of contact from port to door.
Truckload→04
Visibility
Trucking capacity isn’t enough.
gwiTrack shows every container in real time, with alerts, custom reports and EDI/API updates. Free for Gulf Winds clients.
Visibility→
00 MPHPort to door,
tracked all the way.
Your dedicated logistics coordinator books the move. Dispatch runs 24/7, with after-hours emergency contacts when something can’t wait. You call. We deliver.
Pickup at port or rail
We pull from the terminals at Port Houston and the UP and BNSF ramps, and interchange with every steamship line that calls the port.
Heavy loads, kept legal
Overweight and tri-axle chassis keep heavy containers moving inside port limits, so the cargo can be transloaded close to where it landed.
On to your door
Our own trucks run local, over the road or dedicated. Farther out, our carrier network covers dry van, flatbed and reefer nationwide.
Truckload
Tracked in gwiTrack
Drivers update gate in, gate out, loaded and empty from the gwiMove app, and PODs, BOLs and interchanges arrive paperless.
Track a shipment
Next door
to Barbour’s Cut
825K sq ft
Public warehousing beside the Barbour’s Cut and Bayport terminals, with reefer plug-ins and a rail siding.
Ship heavy
Transload, cross dock, consolidation, bonded storage and domestic delivery, all port-side.
Past 250 miles
Transloading is almost always cheaper than running the container round trip, and can save up to a third inland.
Under the cranes
every day
700+ trucks
Our own fleet in the Gulf region, running local, over the road and dedicated.
24/7 dispatch
A dedicated logistics coordinator for your account, plus after-hours emergency contacts.
Since 1996
Built from one warehouse into the largest transportation provider for Port Houston.
Our own chassis,
kept up in our own shop.
The total package: systems visibility, driver capacity and our own equipment, maintained in our own shop.
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We own our chassis, so we can flex between 20-foot, 40-foot and tri-axle as your volumes and bookings change.
Every chassis runs radial tires, tire inflation systems and LED lights, so your container rides on equipment built for the road.
Our own shop keeps the fleet up, which cuts the risk and liability on your freight. In Houston, our equipment averages under six years old.
Whatever the box,
we can pull it.
From a standard 40 to an overweight tri-axle load or a bonded move, tell us what is on the water and we will match the equipment.
Request a quoteWhat we haulEvery kind of container move, from the terminal or the rail ramp
- PortPickups and returns at the container terminals
- RailUP, BNSF, CN/CSX, NS and KCS ramps
- OverweightTri-axle chassis for heavy containers
- Heavy haulLoads past standard weight limits
- Haz-matHazardous cargo, PHMSA registered
- BondedIn-bond moves under U.S. Customs
- Open topTall cargo loaded from above
- Flat rackMachinery and oversize cargo
- Drop & pickWe drop the box at your dock and come back when it’s empty
- DedicatedTrucks and drivers assigned to your freight
Safety & complianceThe certifications our trucks and warehouses carry
- SmartWayEPA SmartWay carrier, rated High Performer
- OSHAPart of OSHA’s Safe + Sound program
- PHMSARegistered to haul hazardous materials
- U.S. CustomsBonded warehouses for in-bond cargo
- USDA / FDARegistered warehouses for food and farm goods
Market notes
and company news
- Jul 8, 202630 Days Later: The Squeeze Is No Longer a ForecastMarket brief
- Jun 2, 2026The Capacity Squeeze of 2026, by Sam Freni, CEOMarket brief
- May 14, 2026Gulf Winds Launches Smart Dispatching PlatformTechnology
- Mar 31, 2026Eric Smith Joins as Vice President of Business DevelopmentCompany
- Dec 10, 2025Gulf Winds Appoints Sam Freni as Chief Executive OfficerCompany
Got a container
on the water?
Tell us where it lands and where it needs to go. We’ll send a rate for the move.