Export agents in North America
Export agents serving growers, packers and exporters in North America, including global operators active in the region.
ARREFF Terminals is a transloading and bagging facility that consolidates and packages agricultural commodities in bulk for export through the Ports of Norfolk and Portsmouth.
Associated Seafoods Limited is the Scottish parent company of Lossie Seafoods and Moray Seafoods, processing smoked salmon and shellfish at sites in Buckie and Arbroath for customers around the world.
CGB Enterprises, Inc. is a grain, soybean processing and river transportation company headquartered in Covington, Louisiana, tracing its business to 1969. Its CTLC subsidiary operates terminals along the nation's inland waterways offering stevedoring, inland terminal service, barge/rail/truck transportation, vessel chartering and storage, and the company also offers container shipping and barge fleeting services.
CMI Orchards, headquartered in Wenatchee, Washington, has been a leader in exporting Pacific Northwest apples, pears, and cherries since 1989, managing ocean, air, rail, and modified-atmosphere logistics for international buyers.
Produce export company based in the Los Angeles wholesale produce district, providing global supply chain management, CTPAT-certified export logistics, quality control and consolidation/FOB loading services for fresh produce shipped through Southern California ports.
Darling Group grows, packs and exports fresh produce, connecting growers with global buyers through subsidiaries covering citrus, avocados and distribution across Australasia. Its produce includes avocados, citrus, blueberries, kiwifruit and mangoes.
Eco-Fruits is a Hanoi-based tropical fruit exporter that sources from Vietnamese growers and its own farms, then exports to wholesalers in around 60 markets. It handles banana, durian, coconut, mango, dragon fruit and avocado, plus processed fruit, nuts and spices.
A Seattle produce trading company, selling produce since 1934, that exports over fifty commodities of fresh fruit, vegetables, and nuts to more than twenty countries via long-term relationships with growers, shippers, and packers.
A Chicago-headquartered nonprofit trade association that helps Midwest food and agriculture companies become export-ready through market entry programs, trade missions, and buyer matchmaking.
Fresh Produce Group sources and markets New Zealand fresh fruit and vegetables to global buyers, acting as a link between local growers and international markets. It handles blackcurrants, summerfruit, tamarillos and KiwiBerry, and supplements supply with Australian and South American fruit.
Freshmax is a full-service produce marketer that sources, imports and exports fresh produce around the Pacific Rim, supplying customers on six continents. It handles apples, pears, avocados, bananas, berries, cherries, citrus, table grapes and durian, and develops proprietary varieties.
General Produce runs a dedicated export department out of its Sacramento distribution center, consolidating and shipping mixed loads of fresh fruits, vegetables, and specialty items to buyers across roughly a dozen Asia-Pacific export markets.
GEMCO is a New York-based export management company that brings American food and consumer brands to over 70 countries and also operates its own private-label food brand, American Garden.
GPS Produce Export operates a 67,130-square-foot facility with 60,000 square feet of refrigerated space in Miramar, Florida, exporting fresh fruit, vegetables, and dairy products to the Caribbean and Latin America.
International Exports Inc. is a Houston-based exporter and distributor of American food, grocery, and consumer goods (frozen, chilled, and dry items) to retailers and distributors in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, handling export documentation and freight arrangements.
Interra International, LLC is a food and agricultural commodity trading company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with operating offices in Mexico, China and France. It sources and distributes poultry, pork, beef, dairy, nuts, rice, sugar, edible oils, feed ingredients and grain between suppliers and buyers worldwide, and its credit team supports the financing side of international food purchases.
Macduff Shellfish (Scotland) Ltd is a Scottish shellfish processor that harvests, processes and distributes scallops, langoustine, crab and whelk from its Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire facility to customers worldwide.
Matipou Exports markets and exports New Zealand apples, combining fruit from its own packhouse with supply from other growers and packers. It handles Royal Gala, Premium Gala and NZ Queen varieties for export and domestic distribution.
Mayrsohn is a Miami-based produce export and consolidation company, sourcing fresh produce, organics, juice and dairy from Florida, New York, California and Chile and exporting it to Europe.
Houston-based trade facilitation firm that manages FDA certification, customs paperwork, and US market entry for fresh produce shipped from Mexico and Central America, operating its own packing and processing plant.
Montague is a grower, packer and exporter of fresh produce, working with its own orchards and selected growers to supply wholesale and retail customers. It exports apples, stonefruit, pears, table grapes, citrus and cherries to Southeast Asia, North Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Canada.
Paramount Export Company, established in 1939 and 100% employee-owned, is an Oakland-headquartered produce export firm shipping organic and conventional fruits and vegetables to retailers, importers, wholesalers and distributors in more than 40 countries.
Perdue AgriBusiness is the grain and oilseed division of the family-owned Perdue Farms, with its headquarters and international, grain and oilseed offices in Salisbury, Maryland. Its Chesapeake, Virginia site operates grain storage, a soybean crush plant and a deep-water vessel terminal with two berths, and its international merchandising staff there market grain and oilseed products to overseas buyers.
ProEx International exports fresh fruits and vegetables from its Miami office, consolidating shipments into optimized container loads for international buyers.
Import/export consulting firm operating out of a Newark warehouse, offering worldwide exporting and importing services, cargo consolidation, packing and crating, and customs brokerage.
Salix Fruits is a global fruit import and export company working with more than 80 producers across 18 countries and serving around 400 customers in 57 countries. It trades apples, citrus, pears, grapes and other fruit, and provides logistics and documentation support.
Vertically integrated seafood harvester, processor, and exporter operating its own California fishing fleet targeting market squid, sardines, and mackerel, distributing under the Oromar and American Fisherman brands to buyers across Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
T&G Global grows, markets and exports fresh produce, working with growers and distributors to sell in more than 60 countries. It is a major apple exporter with premium brands including Envy and Jazz, alongside kiwifruit and vegetables.
The Agrifresh, operated by PT Dewa Agro Lestari Indonesia, sources fresh fruits and vegetables directly from local farmers in Bali and exports to roughly ten countries. It manages selection, sorting, handling and delivery, and also supplies seeds and training to its farmers.
The Scoular Company is an employee-owned agricultural trading and supply chain company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. It handles grain, oilseeds, soybeans and animal feed ingredients, delivering products to more than 50 countries through grain facilities and offices across the United States, Canada, Indonesia, Singapore and China.
Transco International is a licensed customs broker and export management firm near JFK Airport that helps U.S. suppliers, including grocery and supermarket goods, export products worldwide and consolidates air and ocean freight.
Wholesale produce company operating since 1914 with dedicated Domestic and Export sales divisions, distributing fresh fruits and vegetables from its Los Angeles produce-district office to domestic and international markets.
Vina T&T Group is a Vietnamese fresh and frozen fruit exporter that sources from growers and ships to high-standard markets. Its products include coconut, dragon fruit, mango, longan and durian, with an office in California supporting US distribution.
Washington Export LLC is a full-service exporter of fresh Pacific Northwest produce, sourcing apples, pears, and grapes and developing new international buyer markets for wholesalers, distributors, and retailers from its Yakima, WA office.
Avocado packer and marketer that sources fruit from California, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, and Chile and manages sale/export to customers across the US, Canada, Mexico, Japan, China, South Korea, Hong Kong, and the Middle East from its Murrieta, California facility.
Wyke Farms is a Somerset-based dairy producer of Cheddar cheese and butter that maintains separate UK, USA, and rest-of-world sales contacts, plus a localised Japanese-language site, to serve international customers.
Export management company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia that connects US farmers and food processors with international buyers, exporting oils and fats, grains, nuts, poultry and animal feed under its Fresco packaged goods line, with over two decades in the international agricultural marketplace.
A global food export company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, procuring and exporting frozen and refrigerated poultry, pork, meat, seafood and produce to customers in over 130 countries, with in-house logistics, credit and sourcing services.
Alvean is a sugar trading company with its Geneva trading hub at Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 4, Grand-Lancy, Switzerland, specializing in origination, commercialization and trading of raw and white sugar for bulk and bagged shipment by container and vessel, with staff across nine countries.
A peanut growers group headquartered in Donalsonville, Georgia, that ships bulk peanuts internationally to South America, Europe and Asia through the Port of Savannah, arranging freight, customized packaging and mandatory export product testing.
Custom almond and walnut processing and export marketing company established in 1986, operating separate packing facilities for each nut type from Lodi, California and holding HACCP, Kosher and Safe Food Alliance certifications.
Agricultural trading and packaging company based in California's San Joaquin Valley that packages dry commodities such as beans and legumes under private label and store brands, sourcing directly from local farmers and organizing export of products to international buyers.
COFCO International is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland and serves as the overseas agriculture trading arm of COFCO Corporation, buying, processing and distributing grains, oilseeds, sugar, coffee and cotton through warehouses, port terminals and processing plants in more than 30 countries.
Grower, packer and shipper of potatoes, onions, watermelons and mixed dry vegetables based in eastern Idaho, operating a dedicated export sales team and packing facilities across Idaho and the Pacific Northwest, shipping more than one billion pounds of fresh produce annually.
ECOM Agroindustrial Corp. Limited is headquartered in Pully, Switzerland and operates as a soft commodity trading group in coffee, cocoa and cotton, sourcing from more than 40 producing countries and running a dedicated risk management unit, ECOM Risk Management, for hedging and client risk advisory.
Grower, processor and exporter of shelled and inshell California almonds based in Chico, California, marketing product to buyers worldwide with quality control across both product forms.
Idaho Russet Burbank potato shipper in continuous operation since 1968, based in Shelley, Idaho near Idaho Falls, and listed among the Idaho Potato Commission's licensed potato exporters.
Massachusetts based wholesale seafood exporter specializing in live North American lobster along with snow crab, fresh and frozen fish, shrimp and scallops, shipping worldwide from FOB points including Boston and offering consultancy on lobster holding and packaging facilities.
Mushroom grower and processor with its group headquarters and innovation centre in Tyholland, County Monaghan, marketing fresh mushrooms under its own brands to retailers in Ireland, the United Kingdom and Canada.
Dublin headquartered dairy cooperative that markets and exports Irish dairy products, including Kerrygold butter and cheese, on behalf of its farmer and processor members to more than one hundred countries worldwide.
A fully integrated wholesale produce distributor, importer and exporter based in Immokalee, Florida, exporting fresh produce to the Caribbean and handling import restrictions, duties and phytosanitary inspections for international shipments.
Sucafina SA is a coffee merchant headquartered at Place de Saint-Gervais 1 in Geneva, Switzerland, founded in 1977, sourcing green coffee from origin countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia and supplying roasters worldwide through washing stations and farmer certification programs.
Export management company based in St. Louis, Missouri that sources American food and grocery products for international buyers and helps US suppliers enter growing export markets, with regional sales coverage across Asia, Africa and Latin America and an office in Shanghai.
Denver, Colorado based international food and beverage export management company providing export financing, marketing, brand building and logistics services for authentic food producers seeking global distribution, operating for roughly 30 years in the sector.
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Common questions
What does an export agent in North America actually do?
An export agent in North America handles the practical steps of moving goods across a border: preparing or checking shipping documents, arranging customs clearance, booking transport, and coordinating any certificates or inspections the shipment needs. Some also manage warehousing or onward delivery. The exact scope varies by provider, so it is worth confirming directly what a given agent covers before engaging them.
Do I need a different export agent for each country I trade with from North America?
Not necessarily. Many export agents connected to North America cover multiple destination or origin markets, particularly ones served by the same trade lanes or carriers. What matters more is whether the agent has genuine, current experience with the specific route and product category you need, rather than how many countries appear on their general list of coverage.
How do I check whether an export agent in North America is a good fit before committing to them?
Ask about a real shipment that ran into a problem and how they resolved it, request a plain explanation of which documents and steps they handle directly versus subcontract, and confirm which ports, airports or border crossings they actually work through in North America. A provider who answers these specifically, rather than in general terms, is usually the safer choice.
How do I check whether a provider listed for North America is actually reliable?
Look for a working address and contact details, and ask for references from businesses that have shipped through North America recently rather than relying on a listing alone. Confirm the specific service you need, storage, freight forwarding, or customs handling, since a general logistics listing does not always mean deep capability in the one service that matters to your shipment. A provider willing to explain what happens when something goes wrong is a stronger signal than any credential.
Should I use a local provider in North America or an international one with a presence there?
It depends on what matters more for your shipment. A local provider in North America usually has deeper knowledge of ground conditions, relationships, and paperwork specific to that market, while an international provider offers a single point of contact and consistent processes if your goods also move through other countries. Many exporters combine the two: a local provider for physical handling in North America, and a wider forwarder to manage the rest of the route.
What should I ask a provider in North America before committing to work with them?
Ask what happens to your goods at each handover point, who is responsible if something is delayed or damaged, and what documentation they produce and when. Ask for a quote that breaks out individual charges rather than one bundled figure, so you can see what you are paying for at each stage. It is also worth asking directly how they have handled a shipment that ran into difficulty in North America, since that answer tells you more than a general pitch.
Sourcing export agents across the Americas
Distance shapes export agent work throughout the Americas more than almost any other factor. Producers in North America are often located well inland from the coastal ports and airports that handle international freight, so an export agent's value frequently starts with domestic trucking or rail coordination before the goods ever reach a port of exit. When comparing providers, ask specifically how they manage that inland leg, since an agent who is excellent at ocean documentation but treats the domestic transport as someone else's problem can leave a serious gap in your supply chain.
Cross-border land trade is also a bigger part of the picture here than in most regions, particularly where neighbouring countries share long land borders and integrated customs arrangements. An export agent working out of North America may need to be equally comfortable with a container booked for a transoceanic voyage and a truck crossing a land border under a regional trade agreement, and the paperwork, timing and risk profile for each differ substantially. It is reasonable to ask an agent for examples of both, rather than assuming competence in one implies the other.
Spanish, Portuguese and English all function as working trade languages somewhere in the region, and an export agent's language capability should match where your buyers or suppliers actually sit, not just where your own business is based. Agricultural, mineral and manufactured goods each move through different specialist networks, and an agent who is strong on one may have only passing familiarity with another. Finally, weather and infrastructure disruption, from seasonal flooding to port congestion, is a recurring feature of trade planning across parts of the Americas, so a good export agent will build contingency time into schedules rather than presenting the fastest possible transit as the reliable one. Pressing on how they have handled a disrupted shipment in the past is a fair and useful question.
How trade moves through North America
North America's food and agricultural trade runs on some of the most integrated cross-border logistics in the world, with the United States, Canada, and Mexico connected by dense road and rail networks that treat many agricultural supply chains as effectively continental rather than confined within national borders. A significant share of trade within the region moves overland rather than by sea, and produce, grain, and processed food products routinely cross one or more of the region's land borders as part of a single supply chain before reaching final processing, storage, or retail distribution. This overland integration is arguably the defining feature of the region's trade geography, and it means border crossing efficiency and customs coordination between the three countries matter as much as, or more than, port capacity for a great deal of the region's food trade.
Port infrastructure remains substantial on both coasts and the Gulf, handling major bulk grain, meat, and produce export volumes to markets outside the region, and these systems are generally mature, well documented, and used to meeting demanding international food safety and traceability standards. Inland, an extensive cold and ambient storage and distribution network supports both domestic movement and export preparation, with major agricultural regions typically well served by rail and trucking links to processing and export points. Seasonal patterns matter less as a structural feature here than in some other regions, since production spans a wide range of latitudes and climates across the three countries, allowing sourcing continuity across much of the year for many commodities if the right regional combination of origins is used.
The provider landscape includes large, well-capitalised logistics and cold-chain providers operating across all three countries, alongside a substantial base of regional and specialist operators focused on particular commodities, corridors, or border crossings. Customs brokerage is a mature, well-regulated specialism in its own right here, reflecting how much cross-border movement the region handles, and providers with strong customs brokerage capability at the specific land border relevant to a shipment are often more valuable than a larger generalist without that specific border experience. Regulatory frameworks in each country are well documented and consistently enforced, which gives sourcing across the region a degree of procedural predictability that is genuinely useful for planning.
Someone sourcing across the United States, Canada, and Mexico at once should pay particular attention to which land border a supply chain actually crosses and how many times, since multiple crossings each carry their own documentation and inspection requirements even within a broadly harmonised trading relationship. Regulatory standards for food safety, labelling, and phytosanitary matters differ in specifics between the three countries even where overall frameworks are aligned, so assuming full equivalence across borders can produce compliance gaps. Because so much of the region's trade is genuinely continental in structure, a provider's ability to coordinate a shipment's movement across more than one of the three countries, rather than handling only a single national leg, is a real point of differentiation worth asking about directly.
Working across North America as a sourcing area means treating the three countries as a connected logistics system with its own cross-border specialism, rather than as three separate national markets that happen to be adjacent, while still respecting the real regulatory distinctions that persist beneath that integration. It also rewards planning that takes advantage of the region's wide production range: knowing which growing areas cover which season lets a buyer sequence origins across the year rather than treating any one country as a year-round default.
Comparing export agents in North America
Fernable lists a broad set of export agents serving North America, which means the real task is not finding one but narrowing the field to the two or three worth a proper conversation. Start with scope of mandate. Some providers work as generalists across commodity types and destination markets, while others concentrate on a narrower set of product categories or trade lanes out of North America. That specialisation is not a marketing label, it shows up in how quickly an agent can name the documentation, labelling, and inspection requirements for your specific commodity and buyer country without having to look them up. Ask a candidate to walk through the process for your actual shipment rather than describe their services in general terms, and the gap between providers becomes obvious fast.
The differences worth weighing are structural, not cosmetic. Consider whether the provider acts purely as an intermediary arranging the sale, or also takes on freight forwarding, customs clearance, and financing coordination as part of the engagement, since that changes how many separate relationships you need to manage and where responsibility sits if something goes wrong in transit. Consider how they are paid, whether by commission on the transaction, a flat fee, or a retainer, and what that implies about their incentives on price and volume. Consider which buyer markets and buyer types they actually have working relationships in, as opposed to markets they say they can reach. None of this shows up cleanly on a listing page, so treat the page as a shortlist tool and reserve judgement for the direct conversation. What tends not to matter much: office presentation, size of the standard pitch deck, or how the provider describes itself. An agent that answers specifics plainly usually knows the trade better than one that leads with breadth of claimed reach.
Running the comparison without drowning in it means fixing your criteria before you start calling. Decide in advance what matters for this particular shipment, whether that is experience with a specific end market, comfort handling the paperwork your commodity requires, or willingness to work with your existing logistics setup rather than replace it, and score every conversation against that same short list. Ask each provider for a reference from a shipment similar in size and destination to yours, and follow up on it. Two or three well-run conversations, each anchored to your actual requirements, will tell you more than reading through every provider Fernable lists for North America.