Service area
Northwest Indiana
Just across the state line: Gary, Portage, Hammond, East Chicago, and the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor on Lake Michigan. We serve this area from our Illinois office in Mokena. We do not have an Indiana branch.
Across the state line, still the Chicago market
Northwest Indiana is part of the same freight market as Chicago's Southeast Side, with a state line through the middle of it. Gary, Hammond, East Chicago, Whiting, Portage and Lake Station sit along I-80/94 (the Borman Expressway), I-90 (the Indiana Toll Road), and I-65 heading south toward Indianapolis. US-12 and US-20 serve the lakefront plants and the port.
The Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor is a public Great Lakes port in Porter County, on Lake Michigan, with steel, bulk and general cargo, and highway access to I-94 and I-80. We can plan port and industrial pickups or deliveries in this area. We do not invent a terminal schedule or a claim of a port contract on this page; tell us the terminal, the appointment and the commodity.
Rail ramps for this side of the market are mostly still in Illinois. Norfolk Southern Calumet, at 2040 E. 106th Street in Chicago, is the closest public intermodal ramp for many Northwest Indiana docks. CN Harvey (Gateway) is a short drive west. We can pick up from or deliver to those public ramps and then run the box or the trailer across the state line. Naming them is not a railroad contract claim.
The industrial base is its own: steel and related products, bulk, and warehouse space that has grown along I-65 and I-94. A typical FNS move is a Calumet or Harvey out-gate with a delivery in Gary or Portage, a plant pickup heading back into Illinois, or a Midwest outbound after a warehouse stop. Oversize and project cargo also shows up at mills and at the port; see our oversize and project cargo page if a load needs permits.
From Mokena we usually take I-80 east across the state line. Transit time depends on the Borman and the Skyway, so a realistic appointment window matters. If you are shipping from a Burns Harbor terminal, give us the terminal name and the cutoff, not just "the port."
- Office
- Mokena, IL (no Indiana branch)
- Interstates
- I-80/94 (Borman), I-90, I-65, US-12, US-20
- Port
- Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor, Porter County, on Lake Michigan
- Nearby public ramps
- NS Calumet (Chicago); CN Harvey (Gateway)
- Communities
- Gary, Portage, Hammond, East Chicago, Lake Station
- FNS services
- Rail drayage across the state line, port and plant work, warehousing, oversize when needed
Nearby public ramps, on the Illinois side
Names and cities only.
Naming a ramp is geography, not a railroad contract. See our Chicago ramps guide for the full list and disclaimer.
- Norfolk Southern · Chicago, IL
- Calumet
- Canadian National · Harvey, IL
- Harvey (Gateway)
Questions
Straight answers
Do you have an Indiana office?
No. Our office is in Mokena, Illinois. We pick up and deliver in Northwest Indiana from that hub, just across the state line.
Which rail ramps serve Northwest Indiana for you?
The closest public intermodal ramps we can pick up from or deliver to are Norfolk Southern Calumet on the Southeast Side of Chicago, and CN Harvey (Gateway) in Harvey, Illinois. We then run the freight across the state line. Naming those ramps is not a railroad contract claim.
Do you work at the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor?
We can plan pickups and deliveries at the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor and at industrial docks in Gary, Portage, Hammond and East Chicago. Tell us the terminal, the appointment and the commodity when you request a quote.
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