Locations

Southwest Freight Inc is a well-established, family owned and operated, supply chain management company serving the needs of the Gulf Coast Community since 1967. “We have come a long way and things have certainly changed from our beginning.” We understand the magnitude of our clients’ needs and pride ourselves on engaging with the best practices and smart business solutions to accommodate continued growth. Our focus is an approach that starts with listening to our customer needs, strategizing within our various departments, implementing a plan of action, and commencing with impeccable delivery of quality customer service.

We currently have two locations in Houston, as well as facilities in San Antonio and New Orleans. We are U.S. Customs Bonded and have become a leader in the industry, offering services such as:

Houston Yard 1/Corporate Offices/Main Warehouse

U.S. CUSTOMS BONDED TRUCKING
U.S. CUSTOMS BONDED CONTAINER FREIGHT STATION (CFS)
WAREHOUSE ENTRY & G.O. CARGO
WEB TRACKING FOR CFS CARGO
104,000 SQ. FT. WAREHOUSE
24/7 SURVEILLANCE & SECURITY SYSTEMS
HEAVY LIFT UP TO 20,000 LBS.
HAZMAT CERTIFIED TRUCKING & WAREHOUSING
T.A.B.C. CERTIFIED TRUCKING
EXPORT/IMPORT CONTAINER LOADING/UNLOADING
STORAGE & DISTRIBUTION
TRANSLOADING
SHIFTED LOAD REWORKS
BLOCKING & BRACING
PALLETIZING & STRETCH-WRAPPING

Houston Yard 2/Project Yard/Container Yard/Pipe Yard

11 ACRES
HEAVY LIFT UP TO 30,000 LBS.
PROJECT CARGO HANDLING
LOADING/UNLOADING OF FLATRACKS & OPEN TOPS
CRANE SERVICES AVAILABLE
CONTAINER STORAGE, MOUNTING, AND DISMOUNTING
PIPE HANDLING & STORAGE

Houston, TX

Mailing Address:

9005 Spikewood Drive

Houston Texas 77078

Terminal Address:

9005 Spikewood Drive

Houston, TX 77078

Business Office:

Phone: 713-633-8889

Accounting:

Accounts Receivable: ar@southwestfreight.com

Accounts Payable: eric@southwestfreight.com

Sales/Rates:

Rates rates@southwestfreight.com

POD Requests: pod@southwestfreight.com

Dispatch:

Phone: 713-633-7352

sfihoudispatch@southwestfreight.com

CFS/Warehouse:

Phone: 713-631-1800

Imports/Availability

imports@southwestfreight.com

Exports/Receiving

exports@southwestfreight.com

Storage/Distributiondistribution@southwestfreight.com

Projects/Pipe Yard

Phone: 713-674-0667

04/03/2025

To our valued customers,

We have recently made the difficult decision to cease all operations at our San Antonio location. We are asking all customers to have all cargo removed from our facility no later than May 16th, 2025.

We appreciate your business over the years, and we will continue to serve your transportation and warehousing needs at our Houston and New Orleans facilities. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we go through the shutdown process.

Sincerely,

Kyle Johnson

President

Our San Antonio location was originally established in 1979 as an extension of the Houston operations. However from implementation to now, this location has flourished from an overflow volume warehouse and is now not only the premier container yard in San Antonio, SFI San Antonio serves as THE CFS and CES for some of the largest freight forwarders in the industry, and is also the railway preferred vendor for shifted rail loads and rail yard mishaps.

The collaboration of each department within the San Antonio location allows an interoperability to unequivocally fulfill any logistics request bestowed upon them. The SFI San Antonio location specializes in these areas:

COMMERCIAL VEHICLE PARKING (Book Online)
U.S. CUSTOMS BONDED TRUCKING
U.S. CUSTOMS BONDED CONTAINER FREIGHT STATION (CFS)
U.S. CUSTOMS CENTRAL EXAM STATION (CES)
WAREHOUSE ENTRY, G.O., & SEIZURE CARGO
HAZMAT CERTIFIED TRUCKING & WAREHOUSING
T.A.B.C. CERTIFIED TRUCKING
EXPORT/IMPORT CONTAINER LOADING/UNLOADING
STORAGE & DISTRIBUTION
TRANSLOADING
SHIFTED LOAD REWORKS
BLOCKING & BRACING
PALLETIZING & STRETCH-WRAPPING
15 ACRE YARD
CONTAINER STORAGE, MOUNTING, & DISMOUNTING
CONTAINER STACKER WITH 36,000 LBS. CAPACITY
24/7 SURVEILLANCE & SECURITY SYSTEMS

San Antonio, TX

U.S. Customs Central Exam Station

Terminal Address:
242 N W.W. White Rd.
San Antonio, TX 78219
Phone: (210) 333-2759

SFI-sa-all@southwestfreight.com

Southwest Freight Inc New Orleans, established in 1998, began much like our San Antonio operations, as an extension of the Houston location to accommodate the massive volume of InBond freight moving from Houston to New Orleans. Incidentally, New Orleans SFI has also become The CFS for this southern port city, accommodating IPI freight from both the East and West Coast. The expert services offered in New Orleans include:

U.S. CUSTOMS BONDED CONTAINER FREIGHT STATION (CFS)
HAZMAT CERTIFIED
EXPORT/IMPORT CONTAINER LOADING/UNLOADING
TRANSLOADING
BLOCKING & BRACING
PALLETIZING & STRETCH-WRAPPING
24/7 SURVEILLANCE & SECURITY SYSTEMS

New Orleans, LA

New Orleans
Terminal Address:
12301 Old Gentilly Road
New Orleans, LA 70129
Phone: (504) 241-0903

nolacfs@southwestfreight.com

Southwest Freight Logistics LLC was established in 2011 by our parent company, Southwest Freight Inc, to meet the continuous needs of our ever growing customer base importing and exporting in the Houston, TX, San Antonio, TX, and New Orleans, LA, areas. In addition to the Container Freight Station services offered by Southwest Freight, we are able to offer a myriad of transportation services nationwide that include FTL/FCL, LTL/LCL, and Project Cargo.

We pride ourselves on being able to offer competitive pricing and innovative solutions as a result of our vendor selection process. We strive to exceed the expectations on a daily basis by relying on the knowledge and drive of our Team of Logistics Experts who have over 100 years of combined experience.

Give us the opportunity to earn your business! We have the expertise and capabilities of handling shipments of all types, big or small, easy or complicated, all over the nation.

Some of our most common shipments include:

LTL/LCL

Intermodal

HAZMAT

Flatbed

Dry Van

Refer

Hot Shot

Bonded Transportation

Warehousing

Heavy Haul-Step Deck, Double Drop, RGN, Double Drop Stretch

Less than Container Load/LTL: