About Us
Experts in keeping your cargo moving across North America
North America’s Premier Terminal Owner and Operator with over 60 years of industry experience.
Our mission is to provide our customers with reliable high-quality cargo handling services through our terminal operations 24/7.
Since the inception of Ceres Terminals over 60 years ago, we have expanded our business to meet our clients’ needs. Our track record of success is founded in the high service quality, productivity, and complete dependability we deliver to our customers every day. We don’t just move your cargo; we help move your business forward.
Our Values
Safety – We are committed to reducing injuries and accidents and put safety first in everything we do. We have created nine life-saving rules to standardize safety practices across our locations and help ensure the safety of both our people and others around them.
Reliability – Ceres is defined by our outstanding people, who each ascribe to our cultural commitment of personal responsibility and integrated teamwork, to deliver service exceeding our customers’ expectations. We are innovative and utilize leading technology to improve delivery of our customer commitment, ensuring high quality information flow and efficient operations.
Community – We believe that companies should be good corporate citizens and stewards of the communities in which their employees live and work. By finding ways to give back to the community, we aim to lead by example and encourage others to do the same.
Teamwork – We work together to achieve personal and team goals, while seeking opportunities to celebrate successes and embrace new ideas and ways of doing things. Our team is driven to provide a good customer experience for our clients.
Environment – As part of our commitment to communities, Ceres is focused on reducing our environmental impact and ensuring compliance and transparency with respect to the measures we take in achieving that goal.
Ceres’ diversified platform is uniquely positioned to capture new growth opportunities and continue expanding on the delivery of high quality service to our customers across North America.
Reliable Services, Cost-Effective Solutions
Ceres constantly explores modern shipping container handling methods and processes as well as partnering opportunities in the development of new container facilities.
Ceres’ solid reputation and quality service helps to maintain a significant market share in container stevedoring and adds to a robust growth in container volumes – 3 million container moves per year.
Ceres is the largest, fastest growing cruise stevedore and terminal operator in North America.
We handle the world’s premier cruise ships, process over six million passengers per year and manage and operate cruise terminals. Check out Ceres’ First Class capabilities.
Ceres is a premier Roll-on/Roll-off (RoRo shipping) specialist handling over 400,000 RoRo units annually for major RoRo carriers throughout North America.
Ceres provides full RoRo Shipping, Stevedoring, and Marine Terminal Services for all types, sizes, shapes, high and heavy shipping cargo.
Ceres knows the special transport requirements of breakbulk, bulk, and special project shipping cargoes.
You can always trust Ceres to provide the best, most cost-effective transport and shipping cargo solutions.
Ceres continually expands our port terminal operational system, scope, and service methodology to satisfy the needs and requirements of our customers.