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Area Development - Site Selection, Facility Planning and Workforce Development

East Coast Warehouse & Distribution Plans North Charleston, South Carolina, Logistics Operations

09/10/2024
East Coast Warehouse & Distribution, a temperature-controlled logistics provider for the food and beverage industry, plans to establish operations in North Charleston, South Carolina. The $14.5 million project is expected to create 52 jobs.

The new facility, located at the shipyard Creek Logistics Center, will feature 259,000 square feet of warehousing space dedicated to public refrigerated solutions and will also serve as a base for the company’s Safeway Trucking operation.

“We’re thankful to our partners at Capital Development Partners and the Port of Charleston who helped us make a smooth transition into the Charleston market. This new facility – our first in the market – will allow us to expand our foothold, improve productivity, maximize flexibility and offer increased speed to customers in the greater Charleston area,” East Coast Warehouse CEO Jamie Overley said.

East Coast Warehouse & Distribution provides public, contract, and bulk warehousing services across nearly 70 million cubic feet of refrigerated pace on or near major U.S. ports including New York and New Jersey, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Savannah.

“Our state’s infrastructure network, which includes one of the fastest-growing container ports in the nation, continues to attract companies to South Carolina. Today’s announcement by East Coast Warehouse & Distribution reinforces this trend, and we are pleased to welcome the company’s new operation to Charleston County and South Carolina,” Secretary of Commerce Harry M. Lightsey III noted.

“South Carolina Ports welcomes East Coast Warehouse & Distribution to the Charleston port market. Their new temperature-controlled facility will support food and beverage shippers and others moving goods through the Port of Charleston, giving some of the world’s most recognizable brands direct access to our well-run port and the booming Southeast consumer market,” SC Ports President and CEO Barbara Melvin added.

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