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Port of Montreal is moving more containers, but the warehouse side of the Montreal logistics hub is not keeping pace. Drayage windows are tightening, cross-dock cutoffs are slipping earlier, and Q4 detention charges are climbing. Here's what's actually changing on the dock floor.
The pandemic inventory bloat and drayage chaos forced Canadian importers to rethink how they move cargo from dock to customer. Three years out, the changes that survive are the ones that cut dock-to-stock time, tighten CBSA release coordination, and lock down drayage windows before goods land. Everything else got cut.
Port of Montreal is handling record container volumes, and the infrastructure build-out underway means tighter drayage windows and higher in-bond handling velocity over the next 18 months. We're already seeing dock-door competition in Q4 2024 that wasn't there two years ago. If your current SLAs assume loose capacity, that assumption is about to break.
Sufferance warehouse providers sit between the dock and your importer's door. They're not storage vendors—they're the people who hold your cargo in-bond while customs clears it, manage the paperwork handoff with brokers, and coordinate drayage windows so your stuff actually moves.