Bonded CFS · Medley, Miami · 7950 NW 77th St
A bonded container freight station five minutes off the Dolphin. Freight arrives on eighteen doors, gets counted, stored, picked and packed, consolidated and crated here, and leaves in a box we loaded ourselves.
Receiving Monday–Friday, 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM ET · by appointment
50,000
Square feet
under one roof
18
Dock doors
worked in parallel
2
Ramps, one
double-wide
Ground
Level receiving for
what won't come off a dock
1992
Same family
every year since
Why this floor
Anyone with a roof can hold a pallet. What costs you money is the handling on either side of the holding: the count that never happened at the door, the carton that was fine in a dry van and wrong in an ocean container, the crate that got subcontracted and added a week. This floor is laid out around the order an export actually follows, so cargo gets touched once instead of three times.
Counted at the door
Short counts and damage get found in front of the driver, not three days later with the container already sealed.
Built, not just held
Consolidation lanes run by destination. Your freight sits where the box it's going into is being built.
Crated on site
Open and closed crates on our own bench, to ISPM 15. No subcontractor, no extra week.
The sequence
Six stations between the dock apron and a sealed container. Every one of them happens under this roof, and every one of them is somewhere a shipment usually goes wrong.
Station 01
Trucks get worked in parallel instead of lining up in the yard. Oversize comes up the double-wide ramp. Anything that will never come off a dock at all comes in at ground level, on its own wheels or under a forklift.
18Doors worked at once
Station 02
Every delivery is counted, weighed and matched against the paperwork before the driver leaves. Marks, piece count, condition. If something is short or damaged, it gets found here, with the person who brought it still standing there.
1 hrTypical offload
Station 03
Racked or on the floor, by the pallet or by the position. Cargo waiting on a sailing sits differently from cargo waiting on a document. Tell us which one you've got and it goes where it is easiest to get back out.
50,000Sq ft to place it in
Station 04
Freight from several suppliers, built into one box for one destination. That is what a container freight station is for, and it is why the lanes on this floor are organized by where cargo is going rather than by who sent it.
56Weekly LCL lanes
Station 05
The packaging that survived a domestic truck is not always the packaging that survives an ocean container. Crates get built here, open or closed, sized to the piece rather than to a stock box, with the contents secured so nothing moves.
ISPM 15Heat treated and stamped
Station 06
Containers load at our dock or at your shipper's door. Loading here means the count and the condition are verified by us before the box is closed. Flat racks and open tops get blocked and braced for the voyage, not for the photograph.
1 hrTypical load
Bonded CFS
A bonded container freight station is approved by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to receive and handle in-transit cargo: landed in the United States, entry not yet filed, duty not yet paid.
In practice, an in-bond shipment comes off the terminal on our own bonded truck, gets received, checked and deconsolidated on this floor, and sits here while the entry is prepared. Without the bond it would have to be staged at somebody else's facility first. That is one more move, one more bill, and one more day.
The facility
No rounding up and no adjectives. This is the building, the equipment and the hours as they stand today.
Floor area
50,000 sq ft under one roof in Medley, Miami-Dade
Dock doors
18, worked in parallel rather than queued
Ramps
2, one double-wide, for oversize that can't be broken down outside
Ground level
Drive-in receiving for freight that will never come off a dock
Status
Bonded container freight station · C‑TPAT · FMC licensed OTI
Receiving
Monday–Friday, 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM ET, by appointment. Both inbound and outbound.
Cross-dock cutoff
Same day at 2:00 PM · one hour to offload, one hour to load
Dangerous goods
DG-certified staff, recurrently. Classification and segregation checked before the freight arrives.
Crating
Open and closed crates built on site, heat treated and stamped to ISPM 15
Pick and pack
Orders picked from your stored stock and packed to ship, on this floor.
Refrigeration
None on this floor. Reefers are positioned at your supplier and loaded there.
Closed
Federal holidays, except Columbus Day and Veterans Day
Address
7950 NW 77th Street, Unit 1, Miami, FL 33166
ISPM 15. The IPPC mark, burned into the wood. Packaging leaving the United States carries it, or the cargo gets turned around at the far end over a pallet.
Say it early
Four things people assume about a warehouse that are not true about this one. Better you hear them now than on the day the truck shows up.
No refrigeration
There is no refrigerated space here and nothing arrives to be kept cold. For temperature-controlled exports we position an operating reefer at your supplier, they load it there, and we run the export from that point on.
Not an FTZ
The bond covers in-transit cargo before entry. It does not give you FTZ duty deferral or manufacturing benefits. If your program needs FTZ you need a different building, and we will say so on the first call rather than the last.
No live counts
Your documents and warehouse receipts, with photos, are in the customer portal. For a current count, ask customer service. You get it from somebody who can also tell you what condition it is in and what is blocking it.
Different service
Freight moving from one truck to the next on the same day is cross-docking, not warehousing. It is cheaper, it is faster, and it is a separate page for a reason.
Questions
Anything about a shipment already on the floor is faster by phone. The warehouse and the export desk are in the same building.
Next
Piece count, dimensions, weight, whether it stacks, and roughly how long it will be here. That is enough for a real storage and handling number, and enough for us to tell you if cross-docking would serve you better than storing it.
