West Coast Cross Docking
Facility Profile
Certified cold storage and cross-dock capacity in BC.
We handle cold storage, cross-docking, and 3PL warehousing for produce and temperature-sensitive freight moving through Western Canada — for logistics providers, brokers, importers, and distributors who need certified capacity here without running a facility of their own.
- Total building
- 114,449 sq ft
- Clear height
- 30 ft
- Cold storage
- 36,104 sq ft
- — three coolers
- 16,378 sq ft
- — freezer
- 19,726 sq ft
- Loading docks
- 12 (9 cold / 3 ambient)
- SQF certificate
- #91580
- Operating since
- March 2019
Commodities & holding temperatures
One site, every temperature the produce trade runs on.
From a −18 °C freezer through three separately controlled coolers to ambient dry storage. Each commodity carries its own requirement, and the margin for error is narrow.
Ranges shown are typical holding targets. We hold to the temperature your program specifies. Pulp temperatures and trailer conditions are recorded at receiving and again at loading, so the cold chain is documented rather than assumed.
Services
What we handle.
Inbound receiving and QC
Loads are inspected and verified on arrival. Product is temperature-checked, QC'd, graded, and re-graded where needed across chilled, frozen, and ambient.
Cross-docking and de-stuffing
Container de-stuffing and same-facility transfer to outbound, without the product sitting longer than it needs to.
Retail-compliant palletization
Orders built and staged to each DC's stated specification, including Walmart and Costco. A rejected load is expensive for everyone in the chain, so we treat the spec as the job.
Chilled and frozen storage
Three separately controlled coolers plus a freezer, with blast-freeze capability and continuous monitoring throughout.
3PL warehousing
Inventory management and outbound shipping coordination, run as either standalone Western Canada capacity or overflow alongside an arrangement you already have.
Ambient dry storage
30 ft clear height across the ambient warehouse, with three dedicated docks for dry freight.
Workflow
How product moves through our facility.
Two different jobs, depending on whether you own the freight or move it for someone else.
If you own the product
Growers · Packers · Shippers · Importers · Wholesalers
Fresh-harvested product arrives and is received against your grade standard, with pulp temperatures taken and recorded before anything leaves the trailer. This first-phase QC exists to answer one question: did the product hold its quality in transit? Anything outside spec is documented and flagged to you the same day, not absorbed into the lot and discovered later.
When a lot doesn't hold up — and over a long transit it sometimes doesn't — we don't just report the problem back to you. Our team inspects and re-grades carton by carton, case by case, separating what still meets spec from what doesn't. A load that would otherwise be written off whole often has good product in it, and recovering that is worth the labour. You get the count, the condition, and the photos, and you decide what happens next.
Product then moves into the cooler or freezer at your specified temperature under continuous monitoring. From there we build retail and DC-compliant orders daily — pallet tie and height, label placement, pallet type, and mixed-SKU rules to each receiver's stated specification.
Before anything ships, a final QC pass checks the order against destination requirements, because the point is that the load isn't rejected at the DC door. We inspect the carrier's trailer on arrival too: pre-cool, cleanliness, and condition, since a compliant order in a poor trailer is still a rejected order.
Orders reach us from you directly, or from your broker with the documentation attached — and we can prepare the paperwork ourselves if that's simpler. We set this up around how you already work rather than asking you to change.
Everything runs through our own warehouse management system, and traceability runs on lots: the lot that arrives inbound is the lot we ship out. A QC report goes to you before end of day on every inbound load, and inventory is updated daily. If a load fails QC on arrival we tell you immediately and wait for your instructions — it's your product, and that call is yours to make.
If you move it for your clients
3PLs · Carriers · Freight Forwarders · Brokers
Inbound loads are QC'd and received on arrival, including drayage containers direct from the Port of Vancouver. Floor-loaded containers are de-stuffed and palletized to your client's specification rather than a generic build, so what leaves our dock is already in the format the destination expects.
From there it goes one of two ways: straight across the dock for same-day outbound transfer, or into temperature-controlled storage until release. Either way, product is held at the right temperature for the time it's with us — 12 docks, nine serving the coolers and freezer directly, so cold freight never waits on an ambient dock.
Outbound orders are staged and shipped to the receiving facility's compliance requirements, with temperatures verified and documented at loading.
Loads are tracked in our own warehouse management system, with a QC report on every inbound load before end of day and daily inventory updates, so you can answer your client before they ask.
Your client sees a clean delivery; you don't get the call.
Location & drayage
Positioned for the ports and the border.
13753 Hale Road, Pitt Meadows, BC V3Y 1Z1 — with direct Highway 1 access to both major Lower Mainland container terminals and the Fraser Valley crossings.
- Fraser Valley border crossings
- 30 min Southbound / northbound cross-border freight
- Port of Vancouver — Vanterm & Centerm
- 45–55 min ≈40 km via Highway 1 East
- Deltaport — Roberts Bank
- 60–75 min ≈60–65 km via Hwy 17 → Hwy 91 → Hwy 1 East
Drive times are typical under normal traffic. From here we serve Metro Vancouver, Vancouver Island, and Western Canada retail distribution networks.
Certifications & compliance
Credentials your customer's audit will ask for.
- SQF Food Safety Code: Storage and Distribution, Edition 9 — Certificate #91580, Category 26 (Ambient, Chilled and Frozen Warehouse), certified by Intertek SAI Global under JAS-ANZ accreditation. Valid through July 14, 2027.
- CFIA registration — active, positive status.
- $5,000,000 Commercial General Liability (each occurrence and aggregate) plus $500,000 Tenants Legal Liability, underwritten by Intact Insurance Company, current through March 2027.
- No claims or damage on record since the facility opened in 2019.
Certificates, facility photos, references, and capacity details are available on request.
Get in touch
Tell us what you're moving.
Send us the commodity, volume, temperature requirement, and dates. We'll come back with capacity and pricing.