Contact Maritime

Business Hours:
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., M-F

Maritime Division   
687 Switzer Street
San Diego, CA 92101  
Phone: (619) 686-6236  
FAX: (619) 686-8055  
  
Maritime Operations  
620 Switzer Street
San Diego, CA 92101  
Phone: (619) 686-6340  
FAX:  (619) 234-3965  
  
Maritime Properties & Facilities  
645 Switzer Street
San Diego, CA 92101  
Phone: (619) 725-6007  
FAX:  (619) 686-6215  
  
Trade Development  
601 Switzer Street
San Diego, CA 92101  
Phone: (619) 686-6300  
FAX:  (619) 686-7288  
  
Tenth Ave Marine Terminal  
623 Switzer Street
San Diego, CA 92101  
Phone: (619) 686-6346  
FAX:  (619) 686-6354  
  
Cruise Ship Terminal  
1140 N. Harbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92101  
Phone: (619) 683-8966  
FAX: (619) 683-8968  
  
National City Terminal  
1400 W.Bay Marine Dr.
National City 91950  
Phone: (619) 683-8963  
FAX: (619) 683-8964  
  
US Customs and
Border Protection  
(619) 685-4300  

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Overview

Warehousing and open space:

  • 1,000,000 square feet of warehouses and transit sheds.
  • 25 acres of paved open space for laydown of steel and project cargo.
  • 8 berths (up to 42' MLLW).

Principal inbound cargoes are refrigerated commodities, fertilizer, cement, breakbulk commodities, and forest products (including newsprint, cut paper and cut sheet stock). Primary export cargoes include refrigerated cargo, breakbulk and bulk commodities.

The Cold Storage Facility is a 300,000 square foot, state-of-the-art on-dock facility that provides a carefully controlled atmosphere for storage of a wide variety of fresh produce and perishables. These include meat, poultry, seafood, citrus, bananas, apples, pears, kiwi, avocados, broccoli, concentrates, dairy and egg products, grapes, kabocha squash, mangoes, melons, stonefruit, strawberries and tomatoes.

IMC Chemicals, Inc (IMC) operates a state-of-the-art bulk loader at this terminal. The loader, rated as one of the world's most efficient at 2,000 tons per hour, is used to export soda ash, sodium sulfate, borax, pyroborates, bicarbonate of soda and other bulk commodities.

In the past four years, total bulk tonnage for IMC and other bulk tenants has steadily increased from 157,000 metric tons to 744,000 metric tons annually.

  • Siwertel ship unloader installed in 1998 by Cemex.
  • Three 1,000,000 gallon liquid bulk storage tanks with pipelines to berth.
  • 300 E Gottwald mobile harbor crane with a 100-ton lift capacity.

Warehouse A Warehouse C
Type of storage Dry Dry
Construction Concrete walls and floor, steel roof trusses, sectionalized with concrete firewalls Concrete walls and floor, steel roof trusses, sectionalized with concrete firewalls
Number of floors 1 1
Clear height for storage 20-23' 20-23'
Allowable floor load Unlimited Unlimited
Total occupiable storage area 49,519 ft2 381,802 ft2
Railway connections
Two tracks along NE and SW sides of warehouse that join additional trackage serving terminal; connects with A,T&SF and SD&IV Railways
Fire protection Sprinkler system, hydrants, hose, hand extinguishers, watchmen Sprinkler system, hydrants, hose, hand extinguishers, watchmen
Remarks Adjacent to open area. Has truck loading platforms and ramps to provide interior access to trucks. Adjacent to open, paved, available storage area. Has truck loading platforms and ramps to provide interior access to trucks


Transit Shed 1 Transit Shed 2
Construction Concrete walls and floor with steel roof trusses, divided into 4 sections by firewalls Concrete walls and floor with steel roof trusses, divided into 4 sections by firewalls
Dimensions 963' x 201' 963' x 201'
Total occupiable storage area 193,563 ft2 193,563 ft2
Load capacity 4,800 kg/m2 4,800 kg/m2
Remarks Divided into 4 sections by concrete firewalls Divided into 4 sections by concrete firewalls