Freight forwarders in Tampico
Providers serving Tampico, 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.
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.
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.
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 Tampico 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 Tampico 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 Tampico.
How does this Tampico 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 Tampico 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 Tampico without being centred on it.
What should I do if the provider I need is not listed in Tampico yet?
Start with the country page for Mexico, since a provider covering Tampico 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 Tampico so it can be reviewed and added for others searching the same route.
How does a provider get listed for Tampico?
Providers are added after their operations in or around Tampico 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 Tampico that is missing here can be flagged for review and added once that basis is confirmed.
How work in Tampico is actually scheduled
Freight forwarding is built from discrete tasks that have to happen in a particular order at a particular place: a booking confirmed, a collection slot arranged, documents prepared and checked, cargo consolidated or inspected, a handover made to the next carrier. When a provider operates in Tampico, all of this gets planned around whatever that location can actually deliver on a given day, such as how many collections can be fitted in, how quickly a document error can be corrected, and how far in advance a slot needs to be booked to avoid slipping into the following week.
This is why lead times quoted for Tampico are rarely just a distance calculation. They reflect how busy the local operation is, how many other shipments are already queued through it, and how much slack the provider builds in for the ordinary friction of paperwork and handover. Two providers naming the same city can quote different lead times for identical cargo simply because one is running closer to capacity than the other, not because either figure is wrong or because one provider is somehow better equipped than the other.
It also explains why a late change is more disruptive in some cases than others. Moving a collection time by a day is trivial if nothing else in Tampico depends on it, and much harder if the provider has already sequenced that slot against other work booked around it. Asking how a change to timing or volume would actually be absorbed, rather than just what the standard lead time is, tends to reveal more about how the operation in Tampico actually runs day to day, and about how much flexibility genuinely exists behind a quoted figure once the schedule is already committed. A provider that can name the constraint honestly, rather than simply repeating the headline figure, is usually one whose lead times will hold up once a real booking is placed against them, rather than one that quotes a single fixed number regardless of what else is happening on the ground that week.
Working out the routing for shipments from Tampico
Before booking anything out of Tampico, 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 Tampico 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 Tampico 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 Tampico, and why that one over any alternative. Ask what the onward leg from Tampico 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 Tampico 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 Tampico happens to look like.
Working with a shorter local list
One listed provider names Tampico as a place they operate, and the remaining providers on this page cover it from elsewhere in Mexico. That is simply what Fernable has recorded so far for this location, not a comment on how well the city itself is served: coverage gets published as it is verified, and a shorter local list reflects the state of that record rather than a judgement about the market. Work with what is actually in front of you rather than reading anything further into the shape of the list, and treat the choice as a practical one to work through rather than a compromise to accept.
With the one local provider, confirm the same things you would confirm anywhere: what they actually do on the ground in Tampico, whether that is a full local operation or a smaller presence supported from a larger office, and how that shapes response time and who you deal with day to day. With a provider based elsewhere in Mexico, the question is whether covering Tampico from another location is genuinely equivalent for your shipment, and that depends on specifics rather than distance on a map: how often they already move cargo out of Tampico, what their arrangement looks like for the leg between Tampico and wherever they are based, and how quickly someone can be on site if something needs attention in person. Ask both the same direct questions: recent shipments moved out of Tampico, how a problem gets escalated, and who is accountable if something goes wrong. A provider covering Tampico from elsewhere in Mexico that answers these plainly can be just as reliable a choice as the one already listed as local, and the right one is whichever answers with specifics rather than reassurance.
What trips up a first job with a new provider
The most common failure with a new provider is not a dramatic one, it is a mismatch between what each side assumed and what actually got agreed at the outset. Documentation submitted in the wrong format, a collection window misunderstood, a cost left out of the original quote and added back in later once the job is underway: these come from gaps in the initial brief rather than from incompetence, and they are largely avoidable with a bit of front-loaded precision before anything is booked.
Confirm in writing, before cargo moves, exactly which documents are needed, who is producing each one, and by when they need to be ready. Confirm the full cost being quoted, not just the headline figure, so that handling charges, storage if the schedule slips, and any customs-related fees are visible up front rather than surfacing on an invoice afterward as an unwelcome surprise. Confirm who to contact if something needs attention outside normal hours, since a first job is exactly when timing tends to be tightest and least forgiving of a slow response from either side.
Treat the first job as a chance to observe, not just to complete and move on from. How promptly questions get answered, how proactively problems are flagged rather than discovered late, and how closely the paperwork matches what was actually agreed all say more about a provider than anything in its original pitch. A rough first job that is handled honestly and fixed quickly is a genuinely different signal from one where mistakes are minimised or left unexplained until they resurface. A provider worth keeping is one that treats a first-job problem as something to fix and account for, not something to talk past on the way to invoicing, and that distinction usually only becomes visible once something has actually gone slightly wrong and needs a real response.
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 Tampico, 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.