Freight forwarders in Altamira
Providers serving Altamira, Mexico. An independent listing for packers, growers and traders.
Customs brokerage operating under patent 1757, established more than 25 years ago, with warehousing and distribution centers in Tampico and Altamira, Tamaulipas, holding OEA authorized economic operator certification.
Customs agency based in Altamira, Tamaulipas operating under broker patent 1758, handling import and export clearance, vessel loading and unloading, container consolidation and deconsolidation, and covered and open air warehousing.
Agencia Aduanal Figueroa is a customs brokerage in Nogales, Sonora holding broker patent 1444, handling road and rail import and export clearance and in-bond transit through the Nogales, Arizona port.
Agencia Aduanal Ulloa is a Mexican customs brokerage headquartered in Mexicali with branch offices in Tijuana, Ensenada and San Luis Río Colorado, providing import and export clearance across the Baja California and Sonora border crossings for more than 60 years.
AIT Worldwide Logistics is a freight forwarder headquartered in Itasca, Illinois, offering ocean freight, air freight, and customs clearance services alongside a dedicated cold chain logistics service for temperature-controlled shipments, including produce.
Customs brokerage headquartered in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, offering import and export clearance, ocean, air and ground freight forwarding, and dedicated customs handling for the food and beverage industry.
C.H. Robinson is a US-headquartered global logistics provider offering ocean, air, customs brokerage, temperature-controlled and project logistics services with regional Asia-Pacific headquarters in Shanghai, Singapore and Mumbai.
cargo-partner is an Austria-headquartered info-logistics provider and Nippon Express Group member offering air, sea and land freight, warehousing and cold-chain transport for perishables, with its Asia-Pacific regional head office in Hong Kong.
Mexican freight forwarder and customs agency founded in Querétaro in 1983, with an IATA license since 1990 and branches including a Pacific port office in Manzanillo and Bajío offices in Querétaro and Aguascalientes, handling ocean, air, road and rail freight.
CEVA Logistics, a CMA CGM company headquartered in France, provides air and ocean freight forwarding, customs brokerage, and dedicated reefer and air-perishables cold chain services across around 170 countries.
CM Logistics is a Mexican freight forwarder offering ocean, air and project cargo transport, headquartered in Mexico City with a second office in Guadalajara.
Cool Cargo UK is a Hounslow-based freight forwarder that provides temperature-controlled air freight and reefer sea freight for perishable and pharmaceutical goods.
Corella Internacional is a customs brokerage headquartered in Nogales, Sonora, handling import and export clearance across the Nogales, Arizona border crossing since 1945.
CYACSA is a Mexico City based freight forwarder handling air, ocean and land logistics, including customs clearance and refrigerated and perishable cargo.
Dimerco Express Group is a Taiwan-based, Asia-Pacific-focused freight forwarder providing air and ocean freight, customs brokerage, and contract logistics across China, India and ASEAN.
DSV is a Denmark-based global transport and logistics provider offering sea freight, air freight, customs, and project logistics across more than 90 countries.
Europa Worldwide Group is a UK freight and logistics company that provides ocean freight, air freight, customs clearance and project cargo forwarding from its head office in Dartford, Kent.
Expeditors International is a US-based logistics company providing air and ocean freight forwarding, customs brokerage, and project cargo through a global network in over 100 countries.
Gateway Cargo is a Kent-based freight forwarder that provides ocean freight, air freight and customs clearance services from its head office in Strood, with an additional customs office at the port of London Gateway.
Customs brokerage and freight forwarder based in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, with a companion distribution office in Laredo, Texas, offering import and export clearance and ground and air transport between Mexico, the United States and Canada.
Customs brokerage and freight forwarder headquartered in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, handling import and export clearance through Mexico's main land, sea and air customs points, with a companion logistics terminal in Laredo, Texas for cross-dock and transloading.
Grupo Bolt is a Mexican customs brokerage with a dedicated Reynosa office serving import and export clearance for the Reynosa-Pharr border crossing.
HAF Logística Internacional is a Mexican ocean, air and customs freight forwarder, an IATA member since 1997 and an AMACARGA member, with offices at Mexico's main customs points in Mexico City, Guadalajara, Veracruz and Manzanillo.
Hellmann Worldwide Logistics is a Germany-based freight forwarder operating in 62 countries with a dedicated perishable logistics arm offering temperature-controlled and reefer transport for food, flowers and edible oils.
Hemisphere Freight Services is a UK freight forwarder with a branch at Skelmersdale near the Port of Liverpool, offering ocean, air, road and project freight forwarding, customs clearance, and handling of reefer cargo.
Kerry Logistics (KLN Logistics Group) is a Hong Kong-headquartered, Asia-based global 3PL offering international air, ocean, road and rail freight forwarding, customs brokerage, project logistics and cold chain services across 58 countries and territories.
Kuehne+Nagel is a global freight forwarder offering sea and air logistics, customs, and dedicated cold chain and perishables services across close to 100 countries.
Mainfreight is a New Zealand-headquartered logistics company providing air and sea freight forwarding, customs brokerage and dedicated perishable freight handling across a network of offices in 27 countries.
MAVAL is a family-owned customs brokerage founded by Marco A. Valenzuela with paired offices in Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, Arizona serving cross-border trade.
Mexican shipping agency, legal name Mexshipping Agencia, S.A. de C.V., founded in 1998 and headquartered at the Pacific port of Lázaro Cárdenas, providing vessel agency services including bulk cargo, project cargo, tankers, Ro-Ro, customs documentation and cargo transshipment.
Mexican shipping and customs agency, legal name Navecopa S. de R.L. de C.V., headquartered in Manzanillo, offering vessel agency (agencia consignataria), customs brokerage and cargo handling services with stated presence in several Pacific and Gulf ports.
Nippon Express (NX Group) is a Japan-headquartered logistics company providing air and ocean freight forwarding, customs brokerage, perishable logistics and project logistics across more than 50 countries.
Rhenus Logistics is a Germany-headquartered logistics provider offering air and ocean freight forwarding, road transport, customs brokerage and project logistics across more than 70 countries.
Röhlig Logistics is a Germany-headquartered, owner-run international sea and air freight forwarder offering customs brokerage, project logistics and temperature-controlled/perishable cargo handling across more than 35 countries including Australia and New Zealand.
Seafrigo is a France-headquartered cold-chain logistics specialist providing temperature-controlled ocean freight, airfreight, customs and reefer-container services for perishable goods across offices on five continents.
Sinotrans is a China-based logistics group and major NVOCC offering sea and air freight forwarding, shipping agency, and multimodal logistics from Chinese ports worldwide.
Total Cargo Transportes is an OEA and C-TPAT certified cross-border carrier headquartered in Tijuana, specializing in customs logistics and daily Tijuana to San Diego and Los Angeles crossings.
TRM is a refrigerated trucking carrier based in Culiacán, Sinaloa, moving export produce from its Culiacán fields to Reynosa, Nogales and Monterrey for cross-border delivery.
Woodland Group is a UK-based freight forwarder that provides ocean freight, air freight, customs clearance and temperature-controlled reefer logistics for perishable goods from its office in Hayes, Middlesex.
Yusen Logistics is a Japan-headquartered freight forwarder offering air and ocean freight forwarding, customs house brokerage, and cold chain logistics with reefer container and chilled/frozen air options for perishables.
Customs brokerage founded in 1946, operating under broker license 1851 at the port of Topolobampo, specializing in bulk agricultural cargo including corn, wheat, sorghum and chickpeas, with a separate containerized cargo operation at Mazatlan.
Customs brokerage focused on Mexico's Pacific deep water port of Lazaro Cardenas, coordinating mega ship arrivals from Asia, container consolidation and bonded warehousing, with additional offices covering Veracruz, Altamira and Manzanillo.
Customs brokerage and logistics group headquartered in Veracruz, offering ground transport of containers, warehousing and door to door foreign trade services, with operating offices at the ports of Altamira, Lazaro Cardenas, Manzanillo, Nuevo Laredo and Tuxpan.
Customs brokerage and international freight agency headquartered in Progreso, Yucatan with more than 70 years in foreign trade, ISO 9001:2015 and C-TPAT certified, importing fruit and meat and exporting beverages, coffee and sugar through Progreso, Merida and Cancun offices.
Customs brokerage at the port of Manzanillo operating a 16,000 square meter refrigerated facility, Friman, with capacity for 50 reefer containers, three freezer chambers reaching minus 18 degrees Celsius and 1,200 square meters of palletized cold storage, holding SAGARPA phytozoosanitary verification approval.
Licensed US customs broker and international freight forwarder in El Paso, Texas, operating a 50,000 square foot bonded warehouse for cross-border import and export logistics with Mexico.
Customs brokerage based in Ensenada, Baja California with more than 75 years in foreign trade, SADER certified for the livestock and agroindustry sectors, operating additional offices at Manzanillo, Lazaro Cardenas, Tampico, Altamira and Veracruz.
Customs broker operating at the Nogales, Arizona port of entry since 1928, providing customs entry preparation, HTS classification, bonded warehousing and freight forwarding for importers moving goods from Mexico.
U.S. Customs broker and international freight forwarder headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, providing air freight, full and partial container ocean freight, and cross border trucking to Mexico and Canada.
Family owned U.S. customhouse brokerage and international freight forwarder headquartered in Brownsville, Texas since 1948, handling import and export clearance for shipments crossing the Texas-Mexico border in the Laredo customs district.
Family-owned customs broker founded in 1982 in Nogales, Arizona, providing customs entry preparation, bonded warehousing and border clearance for imports crossing the Nogales-Mariposa and Nogales-DeConcini ports of entry from Mexico.
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Common questions
Can a freight forwarder handle customs clearance as well as the shipping itself?
Most freight forwarders offer customs clearance alongside transport, either with their own licensed brokers or through a partner they work with regularly. Confirm which applies before booking, since it affects who you deal with if a customs query comes up. Ask for recent examples of clearance handled for the same trade lane and cargo type, and check whether the quoted service already includes it or is a separate add-on.
What is the difference between a freight forwarder and a shipping line?
A shipping line owns or operates the vessels that physically carry cargo. A freight forwarder does not own transport capacity; instead they book space with carriers, arrange the surrounding legs such as trucking and documentation, and manage the shipment on your behalf. Most exporters and importers deal with a freight forwarder rather than a shipping line directly, because the forwarder coordinates the full door to door journey.
Do I need a separate customs broker if I use a freight forwarder?
Not usually. Most freight forwarders either hold their own customs licence or work with a broker as a standard part of their service, so a separate arrangement is rarely necessary. It is still worth asking directly rather than assuming, since the answer determines who is accountable for clearance paperwork and who you contact if a shipment is held at the border.
Why does a provider without a badge marking it as based in Altamira 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 Altamira from a nearby base, run scheduled routes through it, or serve it as part of a wider territory in Mexico. 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 Altamira.
How does this Altamira page relate to the country page for Mexico above it?
The country page for Mexico gathers every provider working anywhere within it, across every category, while this page narrows that same pool down to Altamira 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 Altamira without being centred on it.
What should I do if the provider I need is not listed in Altamira yet?
Start with the country page for Mexico, since a provider covering Altamira 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 Altamira so it can be reviewed and added for others searching the same route.
How does a provider get listed for Altamira?
Providers are added after their operations in or around Altamira are checked against publicly available information, such as their own website, registration details, or other verifiable records confirming the work they do in Mexico. This keeps the list something buyers can rely on rather than a self-reported directory. A provider already known to serve Altamira that is missing here can be flagged for review and added once that basis is confirmed.
Reading a Altamira listing for what it actually tells you
A provider naming Altamira is stating that it will take on work there and, usually, that it has some means of doing so beyond a generic willingness to serve anywhere in Mexico. That is a reasonable starting signal and a useful way of narrowing a long list of possible providers down to ones worth contacting at all. It is not a guarantee of a particular service level, a fixed price, or even a permanent office, and it says nothing on its own about how the provider handles the specific cargo type, documentation, or timing you actually need for the job in front of you.
Treat the listing as an invitation to ask, not as a completed answer. What a name against Altamira does confirm is that the provider considers the location within its normal operating scope, which narrows the field usefully when you are working through options across Mexico rather than starting from nothing. What it does not confirm is capacity at a particular moment, familiarity with a particular commodity or trade lane, or the exact division of labour between the provider's own staff and any subcontractor it uses locally to fill the gaps.
The gap between what a listing implies and what it states is exactly where a short conversation earns its keep. A direct question, who handles the work in Altamira, how it is staffed, what happens if timing slips, converts a listing from a plausible candidate into a provider you can actually plan against with some confidence. Skipping that step and assuming the listing itself settles the matter is where avoidable problems tend to start, usually surfacing only once cargo is already committed and harder to redirect. A listing is a starting point for research, and treating it as anything more finished than that is the mistake most worth avoiding when several similar-looking names sit side by side on the same page, each stating Altamira in the same handful of words and telling you correspondingly little on its own.
Working out the routing for shipments from Altamira
Before booking anything out of Altamira, work out which gateway the cargo will actually move through, because that is not something to guess at from the city name alone, and it is not something a directory listing can settle for you either. The routing depends on the commodity, the destination, the volume, and the schedules running at the time, and it can differ between two shipments leaving Altamira in the same month. Air and sea are both worth putting on the table rather than assuming one applies by default: a consignment that suits a scheduled sea service in one period might move faster or more reliably by air in another, particularly for smaller volumes or tighter deadlines, and the right answer is specific to the shipment rather than to Altamira in general.
The way to establish this is to ask the freight forwarder directly, and to expect a specific answer rather than a general one. Ask which gateway, or gateways, they would actually route a shipment like yours through from Altamira, and why that one over any alternative. Ask what the onward leg from Altamira to that gateway looks like in practice, who arranges it, and where their arrangement ends, since a provider may be well placed to handle one part of the journey and reliant on a separate party for another. Ask, too, what changes if your volume, timing, or destination shifts, because a routing that makes sense for one shipment out of Altamira will not automatically hold for the next. A freight forwarder who can walk through these choices with you, and explain the reasoning rather than naming a single fixed answer, is the one worth working with regardless of what the map around Altamira happens to look like.
Comparing providers who are all genuinely local
Where several listed providers all genuinely operate locally, being present stops being the thing that separates them, because they have each already cleared that bar. What is worth comparing instead is what each one does with that presence: which trade lanes and destinations they actually move volume on regularly, as opposed to being able to arrange in principle, and which modes and cargo types they handle as routine work rather than as an occasional exception. Two providers can both be genuinely local and still be the better choice for different shipments, depending on where their regular flows run and what kind of freight they are set up to handle day to day.
It is also worth comparing what happens around the booking itself rather than only the service on paper: how each one communicates once a shipment is moving, how far in advance they flag a delay or a change in schedule, and how directly you can reach someone who actually knows the status of your cargo rather than being passed along a chain. Ask each provider for specifics rather than general assurances: recent examples of shipments like yours, how they handle a problem when a schedule slips, and where their responsibility ends if a leg of the journey is subcontracted elsewhere. None of this depends on which provider has been operating locally the longest, since local presence itself is the shared starting point here, not the differentiator. Treat it as confirmed for all of them and spend the comparison on service, lane experience, and how each one actually behaves once cargo is in motion, since that is where the real differences between otherwise equivalent local options tend to show up.
Deciding whether to use one provider or split the work
Not every requirement suits a single freight forwarder end to end, and assuming it does can leave gaps that only surface once cargo is already moving and harder to fix. Before committing to one provider for the whole job, it is worth working out which parts of the requirement are actually within its normal operating scope and which it would be subcontracting or coordinating on your behalf without necessarily saying so directly at the quoting stage.
A useful test is to ask the provider to describe, unprompted, how it would cover each stage of the requirement rather than simply confirming that it can handle all of it. A provider genuinely equipped to handle the whole scope will describe its own resources and named partners without hesitation or vagueness. One stretching to cover ground outside its usual work tends to answer in generalities, and that vagueness is itself useful information before volume is committed rather than after the fact.
Splitting the work across more than one provider is not a compromise, it can be the more reliable choice when no single provider has genuine strength across every stage the requirement touches. The trade-off is coordination: more handover points to manage and more parties to keep aligned on timing and expectations. Whichever way the decision goes, it should follow from an honest look at where each provider's actual capability ends, not from convenience or from whichever quote happened to arrive first in the inbox. Revisiting that judgement periodically matters too, since a provider's genuine scope can grow or narrow over time as its own resources and partnerships change, so a split that made sense a year ago is worth checking again rather than left to run on assumption indefinitely, especially once volumes or requirements have shifted noticeably from what they were at the start.
How trade and export services are distributed across Mexico
Mexico's geography gives it two long coastlines and a northern land border, and export-related activity spreads across all three orientations rather than collapsing into a single corridor. Goods moving toward the United States tend to follow overland routes north, while goods destined for other markets move toward ports on either the Pacific or the Gulf and Caribbean side. Because of this, providers in Mexico are rarely generalists covering the whole country with equal ease: a provider built around the northbound overland trade often has different strengths, equipment and partner networks than one built around maritime shipping, even when both operate under the same service category.
Within this spread, a small number of interior and coastal cities function as commercial and logistics centres of gravity, and a much larger number of cities serve local or regional production without necessarily connecting directly to a gateway. A provider in one of the larger centres will often reach across a wide radius, coordinating movements toward more than one coast or border crossing, whereas a provider in a smaller or more localised city is more likely to specialise in feeding goods toward the nearest corridor rather than covering the country broadly. Someone comparing two cities should pay attention to which corridor each is naturally oriented toward, since that says more about practical routing options than the cities' relative size.
For Altamira, the useful question is less about the specific market it produces for and more about which direction its goods naturally travel and how many providers along that route are set up for it. A city oriented toward the northern border will look for different transport rhythms and documentation habits than one oriented toward a coastal port, and providers on each side tend to have built their operations accordingly. Storage capacity, ambient or otherwise, tends to cluster near these orientation points as a staging function rather than being spread evenly across the country.