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El Paso, TX to Seattle, WA freight

El Paso, TX to Seattle, WA freight

The El Paso to Seattle corridor runs within the U.S., feeding the border gateway. On Cargado, multiple carriers bid here in the past year.

Direction

U.S. border feeder

Equipment on this lane

Dry van-led, with reefer demand

Carrier availability

Multiple carriers bid here in the past year

Marketplace activity

Posted by brokers on the Cargado marketplace

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This corridor connects the El Paso market (El Paso, Santa Teresa, Sunland Park, Anthony, Vado) with the Seattle market (Renton, Tacoma, Seattle, Sumner, Lakewood, Tukwila), running within the U.S., feeding the border gateway. Over the past 12 months brokers posted this corridor to the Cargado marketplace. Multiple carriers bid here in the past year.

What ships from El Paso

Freight out of the El Paso market leans toward food and beverage, automotive parts and fresh produce based on what brokers actually post there. You can read more about moving these goods on the freight types pages.

Equipment on this corridor

Dry van-led, with reefer demand. Browse equipment definitions in the glossary if a term is unfamiliar.

Feeding the border

This U.S. leg connects inland freight with the border gateway at El Paso. Loads typically stage or transload there before crossing into Mexico, or distribute onward after clearing customs northbound. See the border crossings directory for how the gateway operates.

Cargado's marketplace brings verified carriers to corridors like this one, with carrier vetting handled before bidding and banded rate context available in the product.

The markets on this lane

Origin market

El Paso, TX

El Paso is the U.S. side of a cross-border freight corridor with Ciudad Juárez. Computer-related machinery and electrical machinery were the two largest U.S.-Mexico truck commodities by value in 2025, and the Ysleta crossing ranked second among U.S.-Mexico truck ports. Commercial truck processing at the Bridge of the Americas is scheduled to end in early 2028, and Union Pacific operates an intermodal terminal at Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

Industries: Computers and electronics, electrical equipment, auto parts, medical devices, metal products

  • Customs bridge/port: Ysleta commercial truck crossing. $112 billion of 2025 truck freight, second among U.S.-Mexico truck ports (operating). Source
  • Customs bridge/port: Bridge of the Americas land port of entry, where commercial truck processing ends when modernization construction starts in early 2028, with substantial completion slated for summer 2031 (planned). Source
  • Customs bridge/port: Marcelino Serna (Tornillo) commercial crossing. Commercial cargo processing resumed August 7, 2023 (reopened August 2023). Source
  • Intermodal or rail yard: Union Pacific Santa Teresa Intermodal Ramp, which replaced the El Paso ramp (opened April 2014). Source
  • Industrial park: Santa Teresa Gateway Rail Park, a master-planned park with direct access to the Santa Teresa port of entry and a connection to Union Pacific's intermodal complex, with Foreign Trade Zone space available. 1,300 acres; 225,000 units of annual lift capacity at the intermodal park. Source
  • Airport: El Paso International Airport air cargo center. 288,000 sq ft cargo complex. Source
  • Industrial park: Foreign-Trade Zone 68, with an airport site and private sites across El Paso County. 1,065-acre airport site plus 2,376 acres at other sites. Source

Distribution: Third-party logistics providers in Foreign-Trade Zone 68 offering public warehousing, distribution and storage, and the air cargo complex at the airport.

Destination market

Industries:

Distribution:

Market profiles describe industries and facility types from public government, industry, port, railroad and industrial-park sources. They name no shippers, manufacturers, retailers or logistics companies.

Common questions about this lane

How do I find carriers for El Paso to Seattle?

On Cargado, brokers post the corridor and vetted carriers bid on it. Multiple carriers bid here in the past year. Every carrier is verified before it can bid, which replaces cold-calling unknown carriers.

What equipment is available on the El Paso to Seattle corridor?

Postings here lean dry van-led, with reefer demand. If you need a type you do not see, post the load anyway. Carriers with matching equipment get notified automatically.

Why is a U.S. lane on a Mexico freight marketplace?

Because it feeds the border. Cross-border programs need the inland leg to and from the gateway, and brokers post those legs alongside the international move so one carrier network covers the whole program.

Moving freight on this lane?

Post it to 2,350+ vetted Mexico and Canada carriers, or check market rates built from real carrier bids before you quote.