A San Francisco Bay Area 3PL for overseas brands
Keep your freight, your inventory and your team in one region — with a Bay Area warehouse that ships nationwide by parcel and LTL.
Cloudway is a San Francisco Bay Area 3PL running a 40,000 sq ft warehouse in Hayward with pallet storage, parcel and LTL shipping. We work mainly with overseas manufacturers and brands that want their first U.S. inventory on the West Coast, close to the Port of Oakland, and in a region their teams already visit.
Most importers default to Southern California. The Bay Area is a deliberate alternative: its own container port in Oakland, a large local consumer and business market, and a tech-oriented region where commerce systems such as mPorts fit naturally. Cloudway runs the warehouse; mPorts connects your channels; partners handle customs and company setup.
What Cloudway handles
Operations we run for you
Bay Area inventory storage
Pallet storage for your U.S. stock in Hayward, in the middle of the Bay Area.
Parcel and LTL nationwide
Orders ship by parcel and LTL carriers from Hayward to customers across the U.S.
Carrier delivery services
Liftgate, residential and appointment delivery through carriers; white-glove through partners.
Returns and repacking
Returns processed, and cartons repacked or overboxed for channel requirements.
Freight and customs coordination
Inbound coordinated with your forwarder and customs broker, through Oakland or domestic transfer.
Office and workspace support
A practical base for overseas teams spending time in the Bay Area.
Why Cloudway
Why brands choose Cloudway
An alternative to the Southern California default
If your freight can come through Oakland and your team spends time in the Bay Area, a Bay Area warehouse keeps inventory, port and people in one region.
Near the business, not just the warehouse
Hayward is in the middle of the Bay Area, reachable from San Francisco, the Peninsula, Oakland and the South Bay.
Connected from day one
mPorts handles channel and ERP connectivity, so the Bay Area warehouse is not an island.
One inventory for every order type
Consumer parcels, marketplace orders and B2B pallets ship from the same Hayward stock.
How it works
From first call to shipped orders
- 1
Decide on the region
We help you compare where your freight lands, where your customers are and where your team will be.
- 2
Plan inbound
Ocean freight through Oakland, or domestic transfers, are planned into the Hayward facility.
- 3
Connect channels
Your channels and systems are connected through mPorts.
- 4
Fulfill nationwide from the Bay Area
Orders ship by parcel and LTL from Hayward to customers across the U.S.
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Cloudway, powered by mPorts
Cloudway runs the warehouse; mPorts connects your channels and systems to it, so orders, inventory and tracking stay in sync without manual re-keying.
- Connect channels and systems to the Bay Area inventory.
- Keep inventory and order status consistent across channels.
- Direct from Cloudway
- Bay Area warehousing in Hayward with parcel, B2B and LTL fulfillment from one inventory.
- Through mPorts technology
- Channel and ERP connections so your Bay Area inventory sells across U.S. channels.
- Through partners
- Introductions for customs brokerage, drayage, legal, tax and company setup.
The facility
One Hayward warehouse, run by Cloudway
- Location
- 21301 Cloud Way, Hayward, CA 94545 — San Francisco Bay Area
- Warehouse
- 40,000 sq ft, operated by Cloudway
- Operations hours
- Mon–Fri, 9 am – 5 pm Pacific
- Technology
- Cloudway, powered by mPorts
Capabilities
- pallet storage
- LTL
- parcel
- returns processing
- serial-number tracking
- repacking / overboxing
- liftgate, residential and appointment delivery (via carriers)
- white-glove delivery (via partners)
- customs and freight coordination
- office / workspace support
- In the East Bay, reachable from San Francisco, the Peninsula, Oakland and the South Bay.
- Near the Port of Oakland, Northern California’s main container port.
Considering the Bay Area for U.S. inventory?
Talk to CloudwayRegional trade-offs
Bay Area or Southern California?
Neither answer is right for every brand. These are the questions we walk through with overseas teams before they commit:
- Where does your ocean freight land? Oakland routings favor the Bay Area; Los Angeles and Long Beach routings favor Southern California.
- Where are your first customers? Northern California, the Pacific Northwest and Nevada are naturally served from the Bay Area.
- Where will your people be? Teams that spend time in the Bay Area benefit from inventory they can visit.
- How much of the country must you reach quickly? A single West Coast warehouse reaches East Coast customers more slowly by ground than a central or East Coast one.
Frequently asked questions
- Where in the Bay Area is Cloudway?
- In Hayward, in the East Bay, at 21301 Cloud Way, Hayward, CA 94545.
- Why choose a Bay Area 3PL over Southern California?
- If your freight routes through the Port of Oakland, your team spends time in the Bay Area, or your early customers are in Northern California, a Bay Area base keeps freight, inventory and people in one region.
- Can you ship nationwide from the Bay Area?
- Yes, by parcel and LTL carriers. Transit to the East Coast is longer than from a central location, and carriers set delivery times.
Good to know
- Cloudway runs one Bay Area facility, in Hayward.
- Bay Area warehousing generally costs more than inland markets; the trade-off is location.
- Customs brokerage, drayage and company setup are handled by partners we introduce.
Considering the Bay Area for U.S. inventory?
Tell us where your freight lands and where your customers are, and we will show you how a Hayward base would work.