About Us

The Columbia Group is your one-stop complete intermodal solution for carriers and shippers alike. We offer the greenest mode of coastal cargo transport available today through our U.S. flag barge operations, and our 20 years of experience in intermodal, breakbulk and project cargo logistics means you can count on Columbia for the best solutions to intermodal challenges.

Our Three C’s of Expertise:

Columbia Coastal Transport, LLC is the premier containerized barge feeder operator in the U.S. today. As the green choice for coastal cargo transport, Columbia’s barge services substantially reduce highway traffic, truck emissions and port congestion by carrying multiple containers port to port via the Marine Highway instead of individually over the road. Our intermodal experts offer marine and logistics consulting for all projects involving heavy-lift, breakbulk or oversized equipment transport.

Columbia Container Services (CCS) is the equipment repair and storage arm of the Columbia Group of Companies. The company has off-site equipment depots within the Port of NY/NJ and in Boston, Massachusetts. In both locations CCS provides a full range of equipment services including container and trailer storage as well as equipment repairs for containers, trailers and chassis.  In Port Newark, the company manages over 100 acres of property, and in Boston, a 12-acre site less than one mile from the port.

Columbia Intermodal operates a full service neutral chassis pool terminal for the Port of Boston, and also provides empty container trucking in and around the Port of New York/New Jersey.

Green Solutions

In addition to providing the greenest mode of cargo transport on the Marine Highway, Columbia Coastal Transport is an integral part of Environmental Marine Transport (EMT). EMT brings together three strong, experienced companies with proven expertise in towing, barge operations, project management and logistics to offer cost effective, environmentally sound waste transportation services for the first time. EMT offers proven service reliability in all-water transportation for city waste disposal that can mean a cost effective, environmentally safe alternative mode of transport.