The city where the pier is the neighbor
Seagirt Marine Terminal, the container terminal of the Port of Baltimore, handled a record 1,113,309 TEU in 2025. It has four berths, two of them at 50 feet, 12 ship-to-shore cranes and an on-dock CSX railhead, and Ports America Chesapeake operates it. Fifteen weekly container services call there. Next door, Dundalk Marine Terminal handles the ro-ro, breakbulk and forest products that make Baltimore the No. 1 US port for farm and construction machinery. Fairfield and Masonville on the south shore take the autos. Locust Point handles breakbulk and cruise, with the Domino Sugar refinery next to the pier.
Baltimore is our home market. We do not own a building here. We own the relationship with the warehouse operators, drayage carriers and transload crews who do, and we own the result. One desk books the move, tracks it and sends you daily status by email.
Getting there from the pier
Both public cargo terminals sit on Broening Highway in the southeast of the city. From the Seagirt gate, the Canton and Holabird industrial corridor is a surface-road hop of 2 to 4 miles, about 10 minutes with no tunnel and no bridge. I-895 and I-95 are a few minutes away. I-83 leaves downtown for York and Harrisburg, about 85 miles.
The south and west side of the harbor is a different trip. Locust Point, the Baltimore Peninsula, Fairfield and Curtis Bay sit across the Patapsco from Seagirt. Since the Key Bridge fell on March 26, 2024, every cross-harbor truck uses the I-95 Fort McHenry Tunnel or the I-895 Harbor Tunnel. Hazmat loads, and anything over 14 feet 6 inches high or 11 feet wide, may not enter either tunnel. Those loads loop the west side of I-695, about 30 to 35 extra miles and 45 to 60 minutes. The rebuild is priced at $4.3 billion to $5.2 billion and opens late 2030. We quote the loop before the box lands so the detour never surprises you. The Key Bridge routing guide lists the rules.
Industrial districts and who is there
Canton and Holabird hold the oldest port warehousing in the city, right behind the terminals. Prologis Port Baltimore, 323,277 square feet, carries FTZ 74 status. The Broening Highway corridor runs from Seagirt past Dundalk Marine Terminal into Baltimore County. Curtis Bay and Fairfield on the south shore hold the auto terminals, the CNX coal pier and the Energy Parkway warehouses. The Baltimore Peninsula, the former Port Covington, is now the Under Armour global headquarters of about 280,000 square feet, occupied since November 2024. Home Chef runs a manufacturing and distribution center in the city, announced with more than 500 jobs. A new grain transload at Seagirt opened in 2026 and loads more than 200 containers a week for Frey Commodities.
Baltimore City placed a one-year moratorium on data centers of 10 MW or more from July 2026. Data center freight is a corridor service for us, staged from the port toward Frederick, not a city one.
What we run in Baltimore
Drayage: our carrier partners pull containers from Seagirt and Dundalk, return the empty, and plan the tunnel or the I-695 loop by commodity and height. Transloading: partner crews behind the terminals strip ocean containers into domestic trailers, so the box goes back fast and demurrage stops. FTZ and bonded warehousing: partner buildings inside Foreign Trade Zone 74 hold imports with duty deferred.
Behind those sit ro-ro logistics for the automotive trade, forest products handling at Dundalk, and cold chain partners for the food and beverage plants in the city.
FTZ 74 and duty deferral
Foreign Trade Zone No. 74 is administered by the Baltimore Development Corporation on behalf of Baltimore City and the surrounding counties. The service area is Baltimore City plus Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Cecil, Harford, Howard and Queen Anne’s counties. Freight that enters a zone-status partner warehouse in the city defers customs duty until it leaves for the US market. Customs clearance is coordinated through our licensed customs broker partners. Start with the FTZ 74 guide and the import duty deferral explainer.
What to send for a quote
- Vessel and ETA, or the container numbers already on the pier.
- Container count and size, and whether any are reefers.
- Commodity, HS code and hazmat class if any.
- Height and width of any over-dimensional piece.
- Delivery district: Canton, Holabird, Curtis Bay, the peninsula, or beyond the Beltway.
- Storage, transload or direct delivery, and the days of free time left.
Send it to operations@sams3pl.com or call (419) 745-9492. We reply within one business day. The quote form takes the same details.
Questions shippers ask
01Which Baltimore terminal handles containers?
Seagirt Marine Terminal, operated by Ports America Chesapeake. It has 50-foot berths, 12 ship-to-shore cranes and an on-dock CSX railhead, and it handled 1,113,309 TEU in 2025.
02How long is the dray from Seagirt to a Canton or Holabird warehouse?
About 2 to 4 miles and 10 minutes on surface roads. No tunnel and no bridge.
03Can a hazmat container go from Seagirt to Curtis Bay through the tunnel?
No. Hazmat and loads over 14 feet 6 inches high or 11 feet wide may not use the I-95 or I-895 tunnels. They loop the west side of I-695, about 30 to 35 extra miles.
04Who administers Foreign Trade Zone 74 in Baltimore?
The Baltimore Development Corporation, on behalf of Baltimore City and six surrounding counties. We place zone freight with partner warehouses that already hold zone status.
05Do you own a warehouse in Baltimore?
No. We coordinate partner warehouses and carriers across the city from one desk. You get one accountable contact and daily status by email.