Main Office
501 Independence Parkway La Porte, Texas 77571
Phone: (832) 204-3443 Email: mervin.schaefer@transgulftrans.com
Trans Gulf Transportation has been providing trucking (drayage and van load service) since 1987. Trans Gulf operates two facilities in close proximity to all rail (UPSP and BNSF) and port facilities (Barbour’s Cut, Bayport, City Dock and Jacinto Port) of the Port of Houston Authority. Beside the facilities in Houston Trans Gulf recently opened a terminal in Dallas near the Dallas Intermodal Terminal (DIT) in Wilmer, Texas. Trans Gulf owns and operates a fleet of chassis, of various types and capacities, as well as light weight trucks and chassis to accommodate containers that are increasingly loaded to heavier weights. Trans Gulf also owns a fleet of 48’ and 53’ domestic vans that can accommodate truck load business. Other assets include two (2) top pick machines located in La Porte (one for loaded and one for empty) swings of equipment, as well as a yard tractor to move equipment around the yard. The final piece to that Trans Gulf service net is a cross dock/trans-loading facility where over weight containers can be made road-legal through the proper handling of the extra cargo. This cargo can be held as required and loaded onto an LTL or other truck as needed. The cross dock facility is equipmed with three (3) fork lift machines, including a 6,000 LBS, 8,000 LBS and 12,000 LBS machine. We also have an inventory of various size forks and bale clamps for the machines.
Trans Gulf operates trucks with apportioned plates that allow legal transport in seventeen (17) states: California, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
Trans Gulf has a sister company, Sea Lane Express, that provides drayage and trucking services in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast United States. Sea Lane Express has been providing drayage/trucking services since 1979. Sea Lane Express offers service in the following ocean and inland port facilities:
• Norfolk, VA
• Charleston, SC
• Wilmington, NC
• Savannah, GA
• Charlotte, NC
• Atlanta, GA
• Nashville, TN