Six services. One roof. One call.
The complete corridor under one roof.
Most 3PLs on the corridor specialize in one thing. We handle the entire chain warehousing, rail, bonded storage, cross-border coordination, and distribution so your freight never leaves our sight until it reaches final destination.
250,000+ sq ft of Laredo warehouse space.
Gilbert International runs 250,000+ square feet of warehouse space on I-35 in Laredo, Texas — racked, floor-stacked, and food-grade certified, rail served by a private Union Pacific spur, three hours from Monterrey at the largest inland port in the United States.
Storage at the border does a different job than storage in the interior. Freight that crosses at Laredo can wait here — close to the crossing, close to the carrier base — instead of paying linehaul north just to sit in a building.
The space
- Racked storage — pallet positions for product that turns and needs to stay reachable.
- Floor-stack — bulk lanes for heavy, uniform, high-cube product.
- Food-grade certified space — licensed by Texas DSHS as a food wholesaler, graded by the City of Laredo Public Health Department, and TABC bonded-warehouse permitted for beer, wine and spirits. Temperature-controlled space available; no refrigerated or frozen storage. What food-grade actually requires.
- Customs bonded space — classes 3, 4, 8 and 11, duty deferred up to five years. See the customs bonded warehouse page.
What storage includes
Freight arrives by truck or by rail, gets unloaded, counted, and condition-checked at receiving, then put away. When you call for it, it leaves the same day — full truckload, or LTL consolidation so you’re not paying for empty trailer space.
Storage that can become distribution
The same building runs pick and pack, kitting, retail-ready packaging, and returns — so a storage program can turn into a distribution program without moving the inventory.
Common questions
Do you have food-grade certified space?
Yes. We hold a Texas DSHS Food Wholesaler license, a City of Laredo Public Health Department sanitation grade, and a TABC Bonded Warehouse Permit for alcoholic beverages. Temperature-controlled space is available; we do not have refrigerated or frozen storage.
Racked or floor-stacked?
Both. Product mix decides — racked positions for SKUs that turn, floor lanes for bulk.
Can I use bonded and non-bonded storage together?
Yes. They’re separate services in the same building — a single inbound shipment can be split between them, and plenty of customers use general storage only.
One call. No ticket queue.
Need space at the border without a 40-page RFP? Call us directly. Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm Central.
956-723-4308
6219 Gilbert Rd., Laredo, Texas 78041
A 10-car Union Pacific rail spur.
Gilbert International operates a private 10-car Union Pacific rail spur inside 250,000+ square feet of warehouse in Laredo, Texas. Railcars spot at our dock, and freight moves straight to a truck, into racked storage, or into customs bonded space — no public ramp, no intermediate dray.
Most rail freight in a border market gets worked at a team track or a third-party ramp, then trucked across town to wherever it actually lives. Every extra touch is cost and dwell. A spur inside the warehouse deletes the middle of that sentence.
How the spur works
- Spot — Union Pacific spots up to ten cars on our private spur.
- Work — cars are unloaded at dock height, counted, and condition-checked by our crew.
- Move — freight is staged for same-day truck dispatch, put away in racked or floor storage, or received in bond.
The storage buffer
Rail arrives on the railroad’s schedule; your customers order on theirs. The warehouse absorbs the difference — product comes off the car once, waits in storage until it has a destination, then leaves as full truckload or LTL consolidation up I-35. Pick and pack is available through distribution in the same building.
Rail and the duty clock
In-bond rail freight can come off the car and go straight into bonded storage — we hold customs bonded classes 3, 4, 8 and 11 on site. The duty clock stops, product can be repacked or relabeled in bond, and it enters commerce only when sold. See the customs bonded warehouse page.
Common questions
How many railcars can you handle?
Ten car spots on a private Union Pacific spur that runs to our dock — worked by our own crew, on our own schedule.
Can rail freight go into bonded storage?
Yes. The bonded space is in the same building — freight comes off the car and into bond without leaving the facility.
How fast does rail freight get to a truck?
Committed freight is typically unloaded, staged, and dispatched the same day the car is worked.
One call. No ticket queue.
Working rail freight at a public ramp and paying a dray to reach your warehouse? Call us directly. Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm Central.
956-723-4308
6219 Gilbert Rd., Laredo, Texas 78041
All four classes of bonded storage.
Gilbert International operates a customs bonded warehouse in Laredo, Texas. We hold four bonded classes — 3, 4, 8 and 11 — in one 250,000+ square foot rail-served facility at the largest inland port in the United States.
Freight crosses, comes into our building, and the duty clock stops. You pay when you withdraw for consumption, up to five years later. If the goods are exported instead, you may never pay U.S. duty at all.
The four classes we hold
- Class 3 — public bonded storage. Our license, your goods, your duty deferred. You don’t need your own bond.
- Class 4 — bonded yard and shed for heavy, bulky, and bulk liquid product.
- Class 8 — manipulation. Clean, sort, repack, relabel, and break bulk while still in bond. Withdraw only what you sell; export the rest duty-free.
- Class 11 — general order. Very few operators in this corridor are licensed to take G.O. freight. We are.
Most bonded operators hold one class. Holding four means your freight doesn’t have to leave the building to have something done to it.
The facility
- 250,000+ sq ft, with bonded and non-bonded space under one roof
- 60-trailer dock
- Private 10-car Union Pacific rail spur
- Food-grade certified storage
- Three hours from Monterrey — 220 km
How to start
Your broker files a warehouse entry instead of a consumption entry, the freight is consigned to us in bond, and it arrives. We handle receipt, recordkeeping, and withdrawal permits as you sell.
Tell us what the commodity is, roughly how much, and whether any of it is likely to be exported. That’s a fifteen-minute call.
Common questions
How long can goods stay in a bonded warehouse?
Up to five years from the date of importation, under 19 CFR 144.5. Most bonded inventory turns in weeks or months.
Can I repack or relabel product while it’s still in bond?
Yes — that’s Class 8. Cleaning, sorting, repacking, and changing the condition of merchandise are permitted under CBP supervision. Manufacturing is not.
Bonded warehouse or foreign trade zone?
Both defer duty. An FTZ allows manufacturing and has no time limit, but costs more to set up and run. A bonded warehouse starts faster, has a five-year limit, and permits manipulation but not manufacturing. For most importers moving finished goods, bonded is the lighter fit.
One call. No ticket queue.
Monterrey exporter evaluating bonded warehousing, or a U.S. distributor planning a nearshoring program — call us directly. Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm Central.
956-723-4308
6219 Gilbert Rd., Laredo, Texas 78041
USMCA-ready freight across the corridor.
Gilbert International moves freight through the Laredo–Nuevo Laredo crossing — the largest inland port in the United States, three hours from Monterrey. Roughly $339 billion in trade crossed here in 2024. We receive it, transload it, store it, and dispatch it from 250,000+ square feet on I-35.
A northbound load changes hands at the border: a Mexican carrier brings it to Laredo, a US carrier takes it north. That handoff is where crossings go wrong — trailers waiting on dock space, paperwork out of sync with the freight, drayage burning days. Our job is to make the handoff boring.
Northbound
- Receiving — the Mexican carrier or drayage delivers to our dock. We unload, count, and confirm condition the same day.
- Transload — committed freight moves straight from the inbound trailer to a US trailer. The rest goes into racked storage until it has somewhere to be.
- Dispatch — full truckload or LTL consolidation up I-35: San Antonio in under three hours, Dallas–Fort Worth the same day.
Southbound
Mexico-bound freight runs the same play in reverse. We receive from US carriers anywhere in the country, stage and consolidate at the border, and hand off to the Mexican carrier — so nothing crosses half-empty and nothing sits in a queue it didn’t need to join.
When freight shouldn’t enter commerce yet
Not every northbound load is ready to pay duty. We hold four customs bonded classes in the same building — freight sits with the duty clock stopped for up to five years, can be repacked or relabeled in bond, and enters US commerce only when it’s sold. See the customs bonded warehouse page.
Common questions
Who files the customs entry?
Your customs broker files the entry; we coordinate dock timing and documents with them. Laredo has the densest broker base on the border — if you don’t have one, we’ll point you to brokers we work with every day.
Can freight go straight from a Mexican trailer to a US trailer?
Yes. Committed freight crosses our dock and leaves the same day — it never has to touch storage.
What if my freight isn’t sold yet?
It goes into bonded storage in the same building, duty deferred until you withdraw it — up to five years.
One call. No ticket queue.
Crossing at Laredo and juggling three vendors on the US side? Call us directly. Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm Central.
956-723-4308
6219 Gilbert Rd., Laredo, Texas 78041
Freight ready to roll the moment it clears.
Gilbert International runs distribution out of Laredo, Texas — at the border, not 400 miles past it. 250,000+ square feet on I-35, rail served, with same-day dispatch and both LTL and full truckload outbound.
Most importers cross at Laredo, truck the freight to a distribution center in San Antonio or Dallas, then send a good share of it back south when orders come in. Every mile of that is paid for twice. Distributing from the border removes the leg.
What we do
- Receiving and cross-dock — inbound by truck or by our private Union Pacific rail spur. Committed freight crosses the dock and leaves the same day.
- Storage — racked and floor-stacked, with food-grade certified space.
- Pick and pack — pallet, case, and each. Kitting, retail-ready packs, destination labeling.
- Outbound — full truckload, or LTL consolidation so you’re not paying for empty trailer space.
- Returns and rework — inspected, sorted, repacked, dispositioned.
Why the border
San Antonio is under three hours north. Dallas–Fort Worth is a same-day run, and I-35 carries straight on through Oklahoma City and Kansas City. Monterrey is three hours south.
Roughly $339 billion in trade crossed at Laredo in 2024. The carrier base, drayage capacity, and broker density are all here because of that volume — you inherit it by being here.
Bonded and non-bonded, one building
We hold four customs bonded classes, and the bonded space sits inside the same facility as general distribution. A single inbound shipment can be split: the portion with firm orders gets duty-paid and released, the rest stays in bond with the duty clock stopped. No second building, no second vendor. See the customs bonded warehouse page.
Common questions
Do you do pick and pack, or only pallet storage?
Pick and pack down to the each — plus kitting, retail-ready packaging, and destination labeling.
Can you receive freight by rail?
Yes. A private 10-car Union Pacific spur with direct transloading to truck, so rail-inbound product moves into distribution without an intermediate stop.
Do I have to use your bonded space?
No. They’re separate services in the same building. Plenty of customers use general distribution only.
One call. No ticket queue.
Running distribution from the interior and paying to reach back to the border? Call us directly. Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm Central.
956-723-4308
6219 Gilbert Rd., Laredo, Texas 78041
In-house customs brokerage.
One team, one entry, one call. We’re building in-house customs brokerage so your freight never needs an external broker again.
What this means for you
Today, your customs entries are handled by an external broker we coordinate with closely. When our in-house brokerage goes live, that step disappears freight moves from dock to entry to clearance without ever leaving our oversight. One relationship. One invoice.