Dockside Logistics
EST. 2005
Charleston · Houston · London, KY · Since 2005

The answer
is yes.

Most third-party logistics providers hand you a rate sheet and a list of what they cannot do. We are a niche 3PL built the other way around: complex freight, awkward dimensions, tight windows, and customers who have been with us since 2005.

2005
In business twenty-one years
3
First three customers · still customers
5
Facilities · SC · TX · KY
580,000
Sq ft under roof
01 — Position

Small enough to answer. Large enough to deliver.

Dockside runs warehousing, packaging, distribution, and project cargo for Fortune 500 manufacturers in energy, metals, paper, chemicals, and automotive — from port-adjacent facilities in South Carolina, on the Gulf Coast, and from 2026 on the I-75 corridor in Kentucky.

What our customers actually buy is judgment. The same people answer the phone every time, they know your freight, and they have authority to solve the problem in front of them. That is why the relationships are measured in decades rather than contract terms.

02 — Capabilities

Four disciplines, one crew.

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03 — Selected work

The aluminum coil program

Coils arrive heavy, unforgiving, and on someone else's schedule. We built a dedicated handling program around them — receiving, storage geometry, cradles and dunnage, and outbound release timed to the mill's calls — and it has run for the same customer for twenty-one years.

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04 — Clients

Trusted by global industry leaders.
Our story

Two decades of getting it right

Founded in Charleston in 2005, Dockside has grown from a single warehouse into a full-scale third-party logistics provider — warehousing, packaging, distribution, and project cargo for Fortune 500 manufacturers across energy, chemicals, metals, paper, and automotive.

Grown by request

The name is literal. For over fifteen years, Dockside held an exclusive license from the South Carolina State Ports Authority to operate as a private logistics provider inside the gates of the Columbus Street Terminal — working dockside, in the most direct sense of the word. The licensing era is behind us, but the company that was formed there to solve the specific need of a customer lives on.

We have never chased volume for its own sake, and we have never opened a building because a map told us to. Every facility we run exists because a customer needed something somewhere and asked whether we could do it. That is how we ended up in Savannah, in Albany, on the Gulf Coast in Houston, inside a turbine plant in Greenville — and it is why we are opening in Kentucky. Sites open, and sites close, as the work moves.

What we are actually driven by is the needs of our customers and our ability to solve them. It is a simple test and it decides everything — which buildings we take, which crews we hire, which work we say yes to. Twenty-one years in, our first three customers are still customers, and we have never had to compete on price alone to keep a Fortune 500 client list. Dockside is part of the MDS family of companies, privately held and in business since 1983, which gives us the stability of a much larger operator behind a business small enough that the person who commits to your timeline is the person who runs it.

It is our mission to deliver high quality, cost-effective services on time, every time — within an environment of mutual respect, consideration of team members, and fair treatment of all, irrespective of title or role.
Steve Young
Founder & Managing Member
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Capabilities

What we say yes to

Warehousing, packaging, transportation, and value-added work run out of the same buildings, under the same supervisors. Nothing gets handed to a subcontractor and hoped for.

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Not on the list?

Ask anyway. That is the whole point.

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Industries

Freight with consequences

Turbine housings, coil, rolls, capital equipment, production parts. The common thread is that a mistake costs far more than the freight.

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Don't see your industry?

We have built programs for sectors that do not appear on any 3PL brochure. Describe the freight and the constraint; we will tell you plainly whether we can run it.

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Selected work

Three programs, told properly

We would rather publish three accounts we can stand behind than a dozen we cannot. Each of these has run for two decades. More are documented as customers clear them.

We have seen it all before.

History repeats itself on a warehouse floor — the tight vessel window, the awkward load, the problem nobody planned for. Twenty-one years in, there is very little we have not already handled, and when issues come our way we lean on that experience. We have been there.

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Network

Five buildings, two ports and an interstate

Port-adjacent in Charleston, inland at Saint George, packaging in Greenville, Gulf Coast in Houston, and from 2026 a 290,915 sq ft food-grade cold storage facility on the I-75 corridor in London, Kentucky.

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Careers

People who stay

Our crews are long-tenured and the supervisors came off the floor. If you want to be a badge number at a national 3PL, this is the wrong building.

Open roles

Live from Indeed

Nothing posted that fits?

Send a resume anyway. We hire when the right person shows up, not when a requisition opens.

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Contact

Talk to someone who decides

One phone number, one inbox, and a person on the other end who can commit. Job applications go through Careers.

Headquarters
4756 US-78
Saint George, SC 29477
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