Conventional cargo
Every type of cargo. Handled with care.
- 75 years of experience
- 42M+ tons of cargo annually
- 55+ operations across U.S. and Canadian coasts and waterway

Overview
Best in class cargo handling services
We leverage our local expertise and global best practices to provide our customers and partners with the safest and highest-quality cargo handling services and solutions.
Breakbulk
Bulk
RoRo
Perishables

Virtually every dry bulk commodity
- Forest Products
- Grain
- Steel
- Fruit Pulp
- Mineral Ores
- Seafood
- Heavy Machinery
- Yachts
- Project Cargo
- + More
Safety and service
As a leader in stevedoring and operations for conventional cargo for 75 years, our team delivers the safest operations and the highest levels of service in the industry. We are committed to continuously improving our processes to achieve high productivity, short vessel turn times, and damage-free handling.Expertise you can count on
Our workforce are experts at managing every form of cargo so our customers can have confidence that their goods are being handled with the utmost care and expertise.Partnering for shared value
Our collaborative approach delivers product-specific solutions aligned with the needs of our customers.

Where to find us
Conventional terminal locations
Alamo Terminals offers over the road transportation and terminal services in Costa Rica to the shipping lines and Importers/Exporters. Some customers include; Hamburg Sud, CMA-CGM, COSCO, Hapag Lloyd. In addition to the trucking side, we offer storage, reefer plugs, and the repairing of equipment.
Alamo Terminals offers over the road transportation and terminal services in Costa Rica to the shipping lines and Importers/Exporters. Some customers include; Hamburg Sud, CMA-CGM, COSCO, Hapag Lloyd. In addition to the trucking side, we offer storage, reefer plugs, and the repairing of equipment.
Alamo Terminals offers over the road transportation and terminal services in Costa Rica to the shipping lines and Importers/Exporters. Some customers include; Hamburg Sud, CMA-CGM, COSCO, Hapag Lloyd. In addition to the trucking side, we offer storage, reefer plugs, and the repairing of equipment.
SSA Marine has built a reputation at the Port of Baltimore for making customer needs and requirements a priority, and currently handles hundreds of thousands of Autos, RoRo Cargo, Project Cargo, and Cruises per year.
The BC Vehicle Processing Centre (BCVPC), provides bespoke vehicle processing, preparation, storage and delivery of luxury vehicles to the selling dealerships throughout Canada.
Barbours Cut, which is the longest-standing container terminal at Port Houston, has been in operation for more than 45 years. The terminal currently offers 300 acres of container yard space, six berths. SSA Marine operates at Barbours Cut Terminal under our JV Company Texas Stevedoring Services (partnership with Hapag Lloyd Americas).
The Bayport Container Terminal is a state-of-the-art facility, located in the Pasadena Industrial Complex. Bayport opened for business in 2007 and is the second Port Houston operated container terminal, built to support container cargo growth in the Gulf Coast. Currently, Bayport has five operational container berths and 314 acres of container yard space with plans to expand in the near future. SSA Marine operates at the Bayport Container Terminal as Houston Terminal with our JV partner, Terminal Investment Limited, Container Marine Terminal (TIL CMT).
SSA Atlantic provides stevedoring, terminal and logistical service for Fibria Celulose, Inc. of Brazil, including operating a 240,000 square foot ship-side warehouse with both rail and truck loading. SSA Atlantic also provides terminal and barge loading service for Trailer Bridge’s RoRo and LoLo services to Puerto Rico. Autos, steel and other breakbulk commodities are also handled.
SSA Marine provides full terminal management, including the handling of potash in bulk. Services include rail to storage, rail direct to vessel, and storage to vessel. The facility is fully self-contained with all necessary equipment including locomotives for an efficient operation.
SSA Marine provides stevedoring services to/from vessels, and is capable of providing equipment and necessary expertise to handle a variety of cargos.
C-River Logistics is the most diversified logistics company offering inland U.S. transportation services, specializing in barge services. Customer needs are customized to offer quality combinations of transportation services.
SSA Marine has built a reputation at the Port of Baltimore for making customer needs and requirements a priority, and currently handles hundreds of thousands of Autos, RoRo Cargo, Project Cargo, and Cruises per year.
Colonel’s Island Terminal in the Port of Brunswick, Georgia, is one of the nation’s largest auto and RoRo facilities. As a premier RoRo/Breakbulk stevedoring service provider, Ceres Auto, RoRo and Breakbulk Operations handle over 18,000 units annually in Brunswick.
The Port of Charleston has numerous terminals that steamship lines may call. Transit times from the sea buoy to these terminals range from 1 hour to 2.5 hours. SSA Atlantic is a full-service stevedore handling breakbulk (paper products, lumber, steel), reefer cargo, heavy lifts, RoRo, bulk commodities and project cargo.
Cargo handled by SSA Conventional in Tacoma, WA includes autos, military cargo, and breakbulk vessels.
Located on the overweight corridor within the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Crescent Warehouse, Ltd. is a full service warehouse and transload facility specializing in high/heavy cargos and their distribution and storage. The 13 acre facility includes 250,000 square feet of secured warehouse and approximately six acres of open storage. Services include trucking to and from all 14 major container terminals in the ports of LA/LB and transloading legal and heavy cargos from containers and flat racks. On site equipment up to 80,000 lbs. heavy lift capacity. Heavier cargos can be accommodated with cranes as required.
SSA Marine has built a reputation at the Port of Baltimore for making customer needs and requirements a priority, and currently handles hundreds of thousands of Autos, RoRo Cargo, Project Cargo, and Cruises per year.
SSA Marine has a reputation in the Georgia Ports for operational diversity, handling over 1 million shipping containers and cargo annually at our Garden City and Ocean Terminals. The Garden City Terminal is North America’s largest single-terminal container facility.
SSA Marine and Gulf Winds provide a best in class 75 acre dedicated container yard and trucking solution directly adjacent to Port Houston’s Barbour’s Cut Terminal. SSA Marine provides grounded intermodal and container services to help industry maximize chassis efficiencies and the ability to maximize port turns.
Coast2000 Terminal is the leading third party logistics export service provider for transloading forest products and other commodities across all modes of transport including: ocean container, truck, rail and barge in the Vancouver Gateway. Coast2000 operates the largest container yard in Western Canada, serving all major ocean container lines.
Logistic Services, Inc. (LSI) is designed to handle a wide variety of cargo. LSI’s Columbus operation includes a barge loading/unloading system capable of handling steel coils, limestone, coal, poles, rubber, and other bulk cargos. Our barge crane is covered to allow all weather working and also serves a 75,000 square foot warehouse from rail or barge.
Lynnterm, the largest break bulk terminal in Canada, is strategically located within the Asia-Pacific Gateway in the Port of Vancouver, British Columbia and handles nearly 2 million metric tons of export forest products and import steel products annually.
Specialized in dry and refrigerated cargo handling, with a phytosanitary inspection point approved by Mexican sanitary authority.
SSA Atlantic provides service to G2 Ocean, Spliethoff and Wagenborg at our Mayor’s Point Terminal.
At the Port of Virginia, SSA Marine's operations include handling general cargo, containers, and RoRo via more than 100 vessels per month on average.
The Port of New Orleans is the center for international trade and the only deep-water port in the United States served by six, class one railroads. SSA Marine operates New Orleans Terminal LLC (NOT) in a joint venture with Container Marine Terminals LLC at the Napoleon Avenue Terminal. This is New Orleans’ modern terminal container facility that was the first to utilize computerized portals at the gate complex. NOT handles 165,000 containers per year and operates the on-dock rail terminal, as well as providing container-chassis repair services, stripping/stuffing at our container freight station, grain transfer to containers from barge, rail and hopper trucks, as well as rail terminal services.
SSA Pacific operates at the Port of Kalama’s North Port Marine Terminal and is managed from the Longview office. Two export grain elevators and terminals are located on port properties. The port also has 200 acres / 81 hectares of industrial property available for lease.
SSA Atlantic handles over 15 vessel calls per month at the Port of Savannah. Our breakbulk and RoRo customers include G2 Ocean, SK Shipping, Oldendorf, Cosco,Hyundai, Clipper, Bahri, Daewoo, CSN, Spliethoff, and BBC.
Located within the Port of Los Angeles, Outer Harbor Berth 54/55 primarily handles perishable reefer and frozen cargos from Chile and New Zealand. SSA Marine and the Port of Los Angeles have developed this site to cater to the needs of fruit importers who source grapes and stone fruit from Chile, which is complementary to our domestic markets.
At the Port of Virginia, SSA Marine's operations include handling general cargo, containers, and RoRo via more than 100 vessels per month on average.
SSA Pacific provides stevedoring services at the Port of Everett for a variety of commodities, including bulk cement, breakbulk, project cargo, and containers.
The Pier F, Berth 206 breakbulk facility can handle a varying range of breakbulk and neo-bulk cargos, either from lift on/lift off (LoLo) vessels or roll on/roll off (RoRo) vessels.
Port Bienville is a shallow draft (10 feet) barge port in southwest Mississippi, located off the Intercoastal Waterway near mile marker 24 on Mullatto Bayou. SSA Marine handles bulk products from a river barge and trucking.
The Port of Astoria, located at the entrance to the Columbia River from the Pacific Ocean, utilizes its terminal berths for lay berths, topside repair berthing, cruise ship stopovers and log ships while also serving the seasonal fishing industry. SSA Marine's operations at the Port of Astoria are managed from the Longview office.
The Port of Beaumont is a deep-water port located in Beaumont, Texas near the mouth of the Neches River. Situated 84 miles east of Houston, the Port of Beaumont is accessible from the Gulf of Mexico and Intracoastal Waterway via the federally maintained Sabine-Neches Ship Channel.
The Port of Benicia is located at the head of San Francisco Bay. SSA Marine provides contract stevedoring for auto vessels at the privately operated port.
SSA Pacific’s operations provide stevedoring services within the Port of Coos Bay, including two dedicated export woodchip bulk loaders and two multi-purpose breakbulk terminals. Rail services provided by Coos Bay Rail Link.
SSA Marine operates at eight different terminals throughout the Port of Duluth–Superior, handling over one million tons of grain and grain products in bulk per year.
SSA Pacific operates in Aberdeen at the Port of Grays Harbor, Washington’s only deep-water port on the Pacific Ocean.
There are currently three container operators offering weekly service to Central America. Warehouse facilities, as well as open areas for lumber, steel or project cargo, are available for storage.
The Port of Hueneme is the only deep-water harbor between Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay region. SSA Marine is the premier RoRo shipping and stevedoring specialist in Port of Hueneme, handling over 50,000 RoRo units per year at Wharf 1 – South Terminal.
SSA Marine provides stevedoring services at the Port of Longview for a variety of conventional cargos. Services are also provided at Weyerhaeuser Log Export Facility and Cargo Dock.
SSA Marine Mexico specializes in providing services to the finished vehicle industry from automobiles through to high and heavy. We provide traditional stevedoring and port processing services, including quality inspections, homologation, cleaning, body shop repairs. While our state-of-art tracking system records all vehicle transactions in real-time and our permanently employed and highly trained work force has the main objective of providing damage-free operations by utilizing continuous improvement and constant quality reviews in partnership with manufacturers.
Alabama State Port Authority (ASPA) Facilities where CSA provides stevedoring and terminal services The Port of Mobile (ASPA) has the capacity to handle a wide range of different cargo (bulk, breakbulk, project cargo and containers) having approximately 24 vessel calls per month. This ability, coupled with an excellent transportation infrastructure in both rail and highways, gives Mobile a competitive edge in the Gulf region.
SSA Atlantic services 15 customers and handles approximately 8 vessel calls per month, including a vast array of breakbulk and bulk cargos as well as line handling services for each calling vessel. Vessel lines associated with SSA Atlantic includ Saga Welco, Spliethoff, G2 Ocean, DJJ, Western Bulk, and Onego Shipping.
SSA Pacific provides stevedoring services at the Port of Olympia. Commodities handled include forestry products (logs and baled pulp), cattle, rice and other grains.
The Port of Panama City has a skilled workforce handling 350 vessel calls per year with nearly 1.4 million tons of breakbulk and bulk cargo and 50,000 TEU’s. CFS services are also available to container customers and a licensed metal exchange house.
SSA Marine/CSA provides stevedoring and terminal services at the Port of Pascagoula. There is also a 50 acre / 20 hectare “greenfield” site with deep water and an existing 850 foot dock waiting for development to interested maritime groups.
SSA Pacific provides stevedoring services at the Port of Port Angeles with terminal berths currently utilized for loading logs, lay berths, topside repair berthing, and barge loading.
The Port of Port Arthur is a modern break bulk facility port in the Gulf of Mexico, handling more than 350,000 tons of forest products per year. Other cargos include but not limited to, steel, military and project cargo, and state-of-the-art wood pellet handling facility. The Port is recognized as the third strategic U.S Military discharge and loading facility.
ProvPort is New England’s premier deep water multimodal facility for international trade and domestic distribution. A non-profit, public-private partnership that operates the former municipal Port of Providence, ProvPort is New England's second biggest deep water port, and a strategically located Northeast port anchored by a strong tenant base each of which utilizes the port as a distribution center within the New England area.
SSA Marine offers a wide range of cargo handling, from bulk to containers, to meet our customers’ needs.
SSA Pacific has a tri-party arrangement at the Port of Stockton, and currently handles a variety of cargo types.
SSA Marine Mexico Veracruz is the leading finished automobile handler in the Port of Veracruz, handling over 60% of the port’s overall volume, as well as the port leader in the handling of automotive grade steel products. We also handle a variety of general cargo and have the lifting equipment and experience required to handle your stevedoring needs.
The Port of Wilmington is a multi-use facility handling bulk, breakbulk, and containerized cargos. North Carolina Ports is a working port authority handling the receiving and delivery of cargo. SSA Atlantic services 25 lines and/or cargo interests at the port, handling 10 to 15 vessel calls per month. Some of the lines represented by SSA Atlantic are Saga, Star Shipping, Trans-Atlantic, Gearbulk, Spliethoff, and Independent Container Line (ICL).
At the South Locust Point Terminal, SSA Marine handles the port’s world class cruise lines, including Royal Caribbean and Carnival Cruise Lines, as well as their passengers.
Squamish Terminals is a deep-water, break-bulk terminal located at the north end of Howe Sound – just 32 nautical miles north of the Port of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. With 2 berths, 3 warehouses, specialized handling equipment, an experienced work force and an intermodal transportation infrastructure, SQT efficiently imports and exports break-bulk cargos worldwide, loading to and from ocean vessels, barge, rail and truck.
SSA Marine has built a reputation at the Port of Baltimore for making customer needs and requirements a priority, and currently handles hundreds of thousands of Autos, RoRo Cargo, Project Cargo, and Cruises per year.
At the Port of Virginia, SSA Marine's operations include handling general cargo, containers, and RoRo via more than 100 vessels per month on average.
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