Export agents in Los Angeles
Providers serving Los Angeles, United States. An independent listing for packers, growers and traders.
Nearest port
Los Angeles ships through the Port of Los Angeles (USLAX).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Fresh Connection is an exporter of farm-fresh fruits and vegetables, sourcing from more than 300 growers across the US, South Africa and South America. It exports over 50 varieties to wholesalers and retailers in more than 35 countries.
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.
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.
Agriculture and food processing exporter shipping organic candlenut oil to Hawaii and China while also selling local rice and cosmetic products, working with over 100 local farmers.
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.
Kaohsiung based frozen seafood exporter, founded in 1996, that supplies squid, wahoo, kingfish, barramundi, milkfish and shrimp to wholesale buyers across the US West Coast, Europe, Japan and Southeast Asia from Kaohsiung port.
Kaohsiung headquartered family owned seafood processor and exporter, incorporated in 1984, that ships tilapia, milkfish, barramundi, shrimp and other seafood products in bulk container volumes from eight production facilities across Asia to customers worldwide.
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.
Cork based seafood processor operating a plant on Kinsale Road and two sites in Bantry, exporting chilled, frozen and smoked salmon, prawn and cod products to the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States.
Seafood trading operator headquartered in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, exporting scallops from Hokkaido and Aomori, Alaska pollock, sea squirt, mackerel, sardine, wild yellowtail and processed surimi products to buyers in China, the United States, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian markets.
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.
Coffee exporter that ships Arabica and Robusta coffee from Timor-Leste to buyers in the United States, employing 104 local staff.
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.
Export subsidiary of the JA ZEN-NOH national agricultural cooperative federation, handling day to day export of Japanese vegetables, fruit, wagyu beef, rice and processed foods, and operating overseas sales centers in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, London and the United States.
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Common questions
Does an export agent handle documentation as well as transport for a shipment from Los Angeles?
Most do both, but the split varies by provider, so confirm it rather than assume it. Ask specifically whether they prepare the export documentation themselves, coordinate with a customs broker on your behalf, or expect you to supply completed paperwork for them to act on. The answer changes what you need to arrange elsewhere, and it is worth settling before a shipment from Los Angeles is booked rather than once it is already moving.
How is cargo from Los Angeles in the United States typically routed to its onward transport?
Routing depends on the cargo, the destination, and the mode chosen for that particular shipment, not on a fixed pattern for Los Angeles. An export agent will usually have a standard way of moving consignments from a given origin, but it can change between sea, air, and combined routings depending on timing and value. Ask the provider directly which gateway and mode they plan to use for your shipment rather than assuming a default.
What should I confirm with an export agent before booking a shipment out of Los Angeles?
Confirm what they actually arrange themselves versus what they subcontract, where their responsibility for the cargo begins and ends, and how they communicate delays or problems once a shipment is underway. Ask for a realistic timeline for this specific shipment rather than a general one, and check how documentation is handled alongside the physical movement, since a gap between the two is a common source of delay at either end.
Why does a provider without a badge marking it as based in Los Angeles still appear on this list?
Listings on this page are matched by where a provider actually operates, not only by registered address. Some providers cover Los Angeles from a nearby base, run scheduled routes through it, or serve it as part of a wider territory in the United States. The absence of a city badge simply means their presence there is regional rather than a dedicated local office, so they remain a genuine option worth contacting for work in Los Angeles.
How does this Los Angeles page relate to the country page for the United States above it?
The country page for the United States gathers every provider working anywhere within it, across every category, while this page narrows that same pool down to Los Angeles specifically. Think of it as a filtered view rather than a separate dataset. If a search here comes up thin, the country page is the right next stop, since it will surface providers whose coverage reaches Los Angeles without being centred on it.
What should I do if the provider I need is not listed in Los Angeles yet?
Start with the country page for the United States, since a provider covering Los Angeles without a dedicated local presence may be listed there rather than here. If nothing suitable turns up, check neighbouring city pages, as providers often serve overlapping areas. You are also welcome to point us to a provider you know operates in Los Angeles so it can be reviewed and added for others searching the same route.
How does a provider get listed for Los Angeles?
Providers are added after their operations in or around Los Angeles are checked against publicly available information, such as their own website, registration details, or other verifiable records confirming the work they do in the United States. This keeps the list something buyers can rely on rather than a self-reported directory. A provider already known to serve Los Angeles that is missing here can be flagged for review and added once that basis is confirmed.
How export agency work in Los Angeles gets sequenced
Every export agent working out of a single location builds its day around a fixed set of steps that have to happen in order: documents drawn up or checked, goods or samples handled, a booking confirmed, a handover completed. When all of that runs through one office in Los Angeles, the sequence is easier to control because the same team owns each step and can move a job forward as soon as the previous one clears. The tradeoff is capacity. A single location can only run so many of these sequences in parallel before something waits its turn, and that queue is what usually determines how quickly a new job actually starts.
This is why the lead time a provider quotes rarely reflects the physical time a shipment spends in Los Angeles alone. It reflects where a new job sits in that queue against everything already committed. A provider that sounds fast on the phone can still be several jobs deep before yours reaches the front, and a provider that sounds cautious may simply be quoting realistically. The honest way to find out is to ask what is ahead of your job, not just how long the work itself takes once started.
Sequencing also explains why changes made late are expensive in a way they would not be earlier. Once a step has been completed and the next one is underway, reopening an earlier step to fix a detail can force everything after it to be redone in order. A provider working from one location in Los Angeles will usually be direct about this because they feel the cost of it internally. Confirm details before a job starts rather than assuming a small correction later comes at no cost, and ask how a change request is actually handled once work is under way rather than assuming it slots in without disturbing anything else. A provider that can name exactly which stage a late change would send back to the start is one that understands its own sequence well enough to be trusted with the next job as well as this one.
Working through Los Angeles's own port
When the export agent and the seaport sit in the same city, distance stops being a planning variable. Drayage becomes a short, predictable move rather than a transfer with its own weather and traffic risk, and that changes the cut-off calculation: a container can be loaded later in the packing cycle and still make a sailing, and a late correction to documents or a last-minute weight adjustment has more room to be absorbed before the terminal closes bookings. It also changes what an export agent needs to hold in reserve. Where a port is remote, buffers exist mainly to cover the transfer itself; where it sits in the same city, that slack can be redirected toward customs processing, inspection scheduling, or getting the paperwork sequence right, which tend to matter more once the haulage risk is largely removed.
What is worth agreeing explicitly is the handover itself: who moves the cargo the last short distance, who holds risk and responsibility for it between the export agent's premises and the terminal gate, and how documentation is reconciled if the two are handled by different parties. A single-city arrangement can tempt both sides into treating the handover as informal because the distance is short, but a short distance is not the same as no distance. Confirm which party books the terminal slot, how a missed appointment or a rejected container is handled, and whether the export agent's staff or a separate haulier makes the final delivery. Ask, too, how last-minute changes such as a revised sailing or a substituted vessel are communicated, since proximity to the port only pays off if the export agent is actually plugged into how that port operates day to day, not merely close to it on a map.
Comparing providers who are all genuinely local
Once several providers are all genuinely present in the same place, being local stops being the thing that separates them, because on that measure they have already cleared the same bar and a shipper gains nothing further by weighing it again. What is worth comparing instead is what each one actually does with that presence: which trade lanes and destination markets they handle regularly rather than occasionally, which product categories or compliance regimes they have real depth in, and how they communicate during a shipment rather than only at the point of booking it. Two providers can both be based locally and still differ sharply in responsiveness, in how proactively they flag a problem before it becomes urgent, and in how much they involve the exporter in decisions along the way, differences that only become visible once you stop treating local presence itself as the deciding factor.
It is also worth asking each one directly what handling a shipment through this specific location typically involves for them: which agents, hauliers, or terminal contacts they routinely work with here, and what a typical timeline looks like once cargo is ready to move. A provider that has been established locally for a long period is not automatically better matched to a given shipment than one newer to the area, and the number of providers listed for a place says nothing about how well any one of them will perform on a particular consignment. The comparison worth making is between the specific capabilities and working style of the providers in front of you, not between the fact that they are all local, which by this point tells you very little on its own.
Deciding whether one provider can cover the whole job
Some requirements sit comfortably with a single provider from start to finish; others quietly need more than one without that being obvious at the outset. The way to tell the difference is to break the requirement into its component steps before asking anyone to quote on it as a whole, since a provider will naturally describe their own capability in terms that make the full job sound covered, whether or not that is strictly true.
Ask specifically which parts of the requirement a provider handles directly with their own staff and which parts they would pass to another party on your behalf. Neither answer is wrong, but they carry different risks. Work passed on introduces a party you have not vetted and a handoff you cannot see directly, while work kept in-house concentrates more of the outcome in one provider's hands. Knowing which model you are actually buying, rather than assuming from the pitch, changes how closely you need to monitor the job.
Volume and variety both push toward splitting the work across more than one provider. A single provider can usually absorb steady, predictable volume well, but sudden spikes or unusual requirements are more safely spread so that a problem with one relationship does not stop the whole requirement. The cost of splitting is coordination: more parties to keep aligned and more points where a miscommunication can occur, so this is worth weighing rather than defaulting to either extreme.
Where you are not sure, ask the provider directly what they would recommend for a requirement of your size and shape, including where they would advise bringing in someone else. A provider willing to say plainly that part of the job sits outside what they do well is a stronger signal than one who claims to cover everything without qualification.
How service providers are distributed across the United States
Scale is the defining fact of trade-services geography in the United States, and it means comparisons between cities have to account for genuinely different regional systems rather than one national pattern. Coastal gateway cities on the east, west, and Gulf coasts each anchor their own cluster of forwarders, warehousing, and customs expertise oriented toward the ocean and air trade passing through them, while a separate set of inland hubs has grown up around rail and trucking networks that move goods across the interior. A provider in Los Angeles is typically embedded in one of these regional systems, and that system, more than the city itself, shapes what kind of work it is set up to do well.
Because the country is so large, reach is inherently more limited relative to overall distance than in a smaller market: a provider serving a metropolitan area efficiently may still be several days' transit from a coast on the other side of the country. This makes the choice of gateway, and the corridor connecting a given city to it, a bigger factor in comparing locations than it would be elsewhere. Two cities of similar size can differ substantially depending on which coast, border, or rail corridor they are oriented toward.
For someone comparing two American cities, it is worth asking which gateway a provider's business is actually built around, since a location's position on a map understates how specialised its trade infrastructure can be. A city with strong rail and trucking links inland may be extremely well served for domestic distribution while having comparatively thinner direct expertise in ocean freight, and the reverse holds for many port cities. Matching the corridor to the trade lane matters more than matching the city to a rough sense of the country's size.
City snapshot
Los Angeles is close to the Los Angeles Wholesale Produce Market (City Market), a hub for exporters and packers in the area.
Los Angeles's listed providers cover Export management and Consolidation.