For international movers, forwarders & relocation companies
Origin & Destination Agent Services in Toronto for International Movers
Metropolitan Logistics is the Toronto agent that does the work itself: surveys, export packing, crating and container loading at our own warehouse for your outbound moves; terminal collection, customs coordination, delivery and unpacking across the GTA and Southern Ontario for your inbound ones.
We are a Core Member of IAM (now the International Mobility Alliance), with IAMTrusted status and a validated IAMX profile.
Instant rates: our tariff is on MoversPOE, and container moves price on the spot on this site
- Coverage
- GTA & Southern Ontario — daily GTA routes, scheduled regional runs
- Facility
- 101 St Regis Crescent South, North York — container dock, storage in transit
- Credentials
- IAM / IMA Core Member · IAMTrusted · RPP · IAMX validated
- Rates
- Published on MoversPOE · instant drayage pricing online · tariffs as soon as possible
Who we work with
A Toronto partner for movers, forwarders and RMCs
Most agents in the GTA subcontract the packing, the trucking or the warehouse. We own all three, which is why the survey report, the loading photos and the POD come from the same people who did the work.
International movers & van lines
IAM members abroad who need a Toronto agent to survey, pack, load and clear their clients' moves into and out of the GTA — with the reporting your own client expects from you.
Relocation management companies
RMCs and corporate HR moving assignees to Toronto: destination services, storage in transit, transferee communication and status updates on your schedule.
Freight forwarders & NVOCCs
Household-goods consolidations that need a receiving dock, devanning, customs coordination and last-mile delivery in Southern Ontario — or a loading agent for outbound groupage.
Canadian movers outside Ontario
Origin or destination service in the GTA for your long-distance and international bookings, on your tariff, with photos and a POD the same day.
Instant rates
Our rates are published — pull them yourself
No rate-request ping-pong for the standard lanes. Three ways to a number, fastest first.
On MoversPOE
Our Toronto origin and destination tariff is published on MoversPOE — IAM / IMA agents pull current GTA rates instantly, with accessorials listed, no email required.
On this site — container moves
Terminal-to-door and door-to-terminal container work prices on the spot with the instant calculator on our drayage page — import or export, any GTA or Southern Ontario city.
Open the instant calculatorEverything else — priced on request
Shuttles, special items, out-of-zone addresses, standing lane agreements: send the lane and a bespoke tariff comes back as soon as possible, in CAD or USD.
Request a tariff
Origin services · out of the GTA
Origin agent: survey to sailed, under your flag
You book the move; we are your hands in Toronto. From the first survey to the CERS declaration, every step happens on our own staff and equipment, is photographed, and is reported back to you in time to keep your client informed — as if your own branch did the work.
FCL, LCL, groupage or road: the mode changes the paperwork, not the standard. Lift vans and crates are built in-house, containers load at our dock or the residence, and the same coordinator owns the file until the box is gated in.
Pre-move survey — on your paper or ours
In-home for houses, video for condos. You get a cube sheet and a written survey report right after the survey: itemized volume, packing materials required, crating candidates, access notes and shuttle risk. If your company uses its own survey form or app, we work on yours.
Export packing to IAM standard
Our own employed crews — not casual labour — pack with export cartons, paper and blankets sized for an ocean transit. Descriptive and bingo-sheet inventories as your trade lane requires, high-value inventory on request, and every job photographed as it is packed.
Crating and lift vans built in-house
ISPM-15 certified wood, cut and built on our warehouse floor: felt-lined TV and art crates, marble and glass crates, and plywood or tri-wall lift vans sized to the shipment. Vehicle and motorcycle blocking and bracing for containerized shipment.
FCL loading at our own dock — or at the residence
Containers drayed in on our own tractors and loaded by the crew that packed the goods. Blocked, braced, photographed before the doors close; the seal number, tally and load report go to you the same day. VGM handled, CERS export declaration filed in-house.
Drayage, rail and port on our own equipment
We run commercial container drayage daily, so your household-goods box rides the same dispatch: CN Brampton and CPKC Vaughan for rail to Montreal, Halifax and Vancouver sailings, cut-offs tracked by dispatchers who manage them constantly.
Storage in transit and groupage consolidation
Racked and floor SIT at our North York warehouse on weekly or monthly billing, and a loading floor where your lane's groupage consolidates — lift vans and skids labelled with your reference, held until the container fills.
Destination services · into the GTA
Destination agent: released, delivered, reported
Your container lands in Montreal, Halifax or Vancouver and rails into the GTA; your groupage arrives at a deconsolidation warehouse. From that moment the clock runs — free time, per-diem, a transferee waiting in a furnished apartment. Destination work is a timing job, and we run it with the same dispatch desk that moves commercial containers every day.
The transferee deals with a named coordinator; you get the paper. Customs file prepared before the vessel docks, collection booked for the day of release, delivery scheduled around the household — and the POD in your inbox before their first night's sleep in the new home.
Terminal and port collection on our own tractors
Containers collected at CN Brampton, CPKC Vaughan, the Port of Toronto and the Port of Hamilton on our own tractors and chassis; LCL and lift vans picked up at the deconsolidation warehouse. Free time and per-diem are watched from the day of release.
Customs coordination, timed to the transferee
We prepare the file with the transferee — passport, immigration status, BSF186 / BSF186A goods-to-follow declaration and the inventory — and coordinate release with a licensed broker (yours or ours). Collection is timed to the arrival so the container never sits on demurrage waiting for a signature.
Receiving and devanning with exception reporting
Devanned at our dock by our own crews, counted against the origin inventory, exceptions photographed and reported to you as the freight is received. Lift vans and groupage received the same way, piece by piece against your manifest.
Delivery, unpacking and debris — no subcontracted last mile
Liftgate straight trucks and our own uniformed crews deliver across the GTA and Southern Ontario: placement, unpacking, furniture assembly, debris and crate removal on the same visit. Third-party services — piano and safe handling, appliance hook-up, handyman — arranged on request.
Storage in transit until the residence is ready
When the lease starts late or the closing slips, the shipment moves into racked storage at our warehouse after clearance and delivers on the transferee's date — one handling charge, storage billed by the week or month, no re-receiving fee.
Same-day POD and agent-grade reporting
Proof of delivery and a delivery report the day the job closes, claims-ready photos at every hand-off, status updates on the schedule you set, and one itemized invoice in CAD or USD. Your client hears from you, not from us — we work under your flag.
How to work with us
From rate request to POD
- 01
Rate request
Send origin and destination postal codes, estimated volume, mode (FCL, LCL or road), target dates and special items. A tariff comes back as soon as possible.
- 02
Booking
Confirm the booking and you get a named coordinator, the survey or collection date, and the document list for the transferee.
- 03
Service
Survey and packing at origin, or collection and clearance at destination — on our own crews and trucks, photographed at every hand-off.
- 04
Reporting
Status updates on your schedule, prompt exception reports, and the document pack — inventory, photos, POD — with one invoice.
What to put in a rate request
- Origin and destination postal codes, and whether we are origin, destination or both
- Estimated volume (cu ft or m³) and mode — FCL, LCL / groupage, liftvans or road
- Target survey, packing or delivery dates and the transferee's arrival date
- Access details: house or apartment, floor, elevator, parking, shuttle risk
- Special items — piano, safe, artwork, vehicle, motorcycle, crating needs
- Storage in transit expected? Third-party services? Insurance valuation?
Why agents book us
Asset-based, accountable, and used to reporting to another agent
Our warehouse
101 St Regis Crescent South, North York: container dock, live unload or drop, racked storage in transit, and a loading floor for FCL, LCL and liftvans.
Our own crews
Packers trained to IAM export standard and lumper crews on staff — the same people at the survey, on packing day and at the dock.
Our own trucks and chassis
Drayage tractors for the GTA terminals and ports; straight trucks with liftgates and 53′ trailers for delivery. No subcontracted last mile.
IAM / IMA Core Member, IAMTrusted, RPP
Core Member of the International Association of Movers (now the International Mobility Alliance). Agent-to-agent payments covered by the Receivable Protection Program; validated IAMX profile; PCG and DPP programs.
Commercial container logistics daily
We pull, transload and return containers for importers every day, so terminal availability, per-diem and chassis are managed by dispatchers who do it constantly.
One coordinator, one invoice
A named coordinator from booking to POD, status updates on your schedule, prompt exception reports and a single itemized invoice.
Coverage
Where we act as agent
Daily across the Greater Toronto Area and on scheduled runs through Southern Ontario. Rates are zoned from our North York warehouse; addresses outside the list are quoted with the distance included.
Terminals and ports we collect from
- CN Brampton Intermodal Terminal (BIT) — Brampton, ON
- CPKC Vaughan Intermodal Terminal — Vaughan, ON
- CN Malport Intermodal — Milton, ON
- Port of Toronto — Toronto, ON
- Port of Hamilton (HOPA) — Hamilton, ON
FAQ
Agent services: frequently asked questions
Where can we see your rates?
Are you a licensed customs broker?
Is your warehouse bonded?
Do you handle air freight?
Which terminals and ports do you collect from?
What is your tariff basis?
How quickly do you respond?
What does the transferee need for Canadian customs?
Do you cover all of Ontario?
Agent tariff
Send us the lane
Volume, postal codes, mode and dates — a tariff comes back as soon as possible. Use the form or email dispatch directly.
- service@metropolitanlogistics.ca
- +1 (365) 829-5000
- Tariffs in CAD or USD, per cu ft or m³, accessorials listed
- Standard lanes already published on MoversPOE