All articles tagged with “Warehouse Capacity”.
Montreal's logistics infrastructure is expanding, but not at the pace most importers assume. Port throughput, drayage capacity, and warehouse availability each have different growth curves, and they're not synchronized. We're seeing the imbalance hit dock operations already.
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.
Brad Jacobs' QXO just bought TopBuild for $17 billion, creating a building-products giant with $18B revenue. For cold storage Canada companies and 3PL operators already navigating tight margin environments, this is a consolidation play that will ripple through carrier networks and warehouse capacity. What actually changes at the dock level is murkier than the press release suggests.