Proven Ocean Freight Service Since 1973.
With our extensive range of A-Z ocean freight services and Ocean Freight consolidation covering all volumes and dimensions of equipment categories and all origins and destinations, Packair ensures your freight will reach its destination safely and securely, on-time, and cost-effectively. Packair is the premier Ocean Freight company in Los Angeles since 1973! Need an Ocean Freight Quote?
When you’re shipping across oceans, you don’t want to be stuck worrying about whether your goods will arrive safely. We’ll ship your cargo quickly, safely, and reliably. We’ll take care of everything from customs paperwork, to documentation, to insurance—and if anything goes wrong along the way, we’ll step in and help resolve any issues that arise. Our goal is to get your cargo where it needs to go as quickly as possible. Our attention to detail, combined experience, and our complete care of your cargo from source to destination or your money back, is what makes Packair the #1 Freight Forwarder company in both Los Angeles and across the world.
Low operational costs
Optimization programs
Careful handling of valuable goods
Employers uniform standards
Minimal processing times
Let’s go Global: We’ll get Your Cargo Across the Ocean Safely.
What is Ocean Freight Forwarding?
Ocean freight shipping is used when transporting products that are too large or heavy to be shipped via air or land. It’s the transport of goods by sea, and it’s very cost-effective. The shipping industry is controlled by strict regulations, which you’ll have to follow.
Ocean logistics spans the entire network of what a logistics company offers. Depending on your contract, a truck – ground freight – arrives to haul your cargo to a bonded warehouse, usually either near the port, or at the port, of origin. The cargo is then packed and prepared for shipping containers. The ocean freight company uses software to plan and optimize the ship load. In the meantime, customs consultants are busy strategizing on, preparing and submitting customs documents for the destination country. The status and location of your cargo is tracked by your freight forwarding company and is shared with the client. Logistics agents get busy orchestrating all of the above at the destination – unloading the shipping containers, keeping track of their locations at the port and what cargo they contain, and then unloaded and prepared for ground transport.
This is of course a smooth, simplified and concise version of all that your freight forwarding company handles for you. It can be further complicated if your agency contracts out some or all the above steps to third party companies, such as using third party ground transport, hiring overseas customer service agents to handle questions or issues with the client, whether or not your agency employs third party customs consultants at the destination country, and more.
Why Use an Ocean Freight Company?
Following regulations and shipping cargo across the ocean is a headache. Packair will ease your stress by taking care of all the complexities of the shipping process. We’ll handle all the:
- Tracking
- Transportation
- Paperwork
- Warehousing
- Booking
- Insurance
- And other complicated parts of the shipping process
So you don’t have to!
Packair will navigate the overwhelming world of international freight shipping for you, so you won’t have to worry or deal with any of it. You
can focus on what you do best: Running your business!
Domestic or International: Your Cargo is in Safe Hands.
What Cargo Does Packair Ship?
We’re happy to help you transport:
- Hazardous cargo
- Yachts and boats
- Oversized, Out of Gauge (OOG), project cargo
- Aircraft on Ground (AOG)
- Any vehicle and/or its parts
- Jet engine
- Helicopter parts
Why Choose Ocean Freight Shipping?
Ocean freight shipping is a great option to transport your aerospace equipment. Here are the benefits:
- More affordable than other fright options
- Efficient and minimal processing times
- Transport oversized, bulky, extremely heavy equipment anywhere
- Sailing is mainly smooth, protecting the cargo
- Environmentally-friendly shipping option
- Ship hazardous material safely
- Flexibility in shipments
What Ocean Freight Options Does Packair Offer?
Your business is unique, with unique needs and that means we need to be able to provide you with a range of solutions. Enjoy the flexibility we offer with ocean freight. No matter how much cargo you need to ship, we can help you.
Packair offers:
- Ocean Direct Full Container Load or FCL
- Ocean Connect Less than Container Load or LCL
- Ocean Container Management – FCL inland services
- Ocean Special – Conventional Load Services
Why Choose Packair Over Other Ocean Freight Forwarders?
In reality, many – if not most – freight forwarders use almost entirely outsourced vendors to handle almost every step of the ocean freight process. If there are any hiccups along the way, the whole process can break. Cargo gets left on loading docks. Cargo gets stuck in customs, occurring thousands of dollars in fees along the way. Cargo doesn’t make it to you or your clients, costing even more in sales and productivity.
Packair has made it our business to keep all of our steps in the logistics chain under our roof. It is our process to have multiple options available at every step in your ocean cargo’s journey should something go wrong, so that we are quick and agile in resolving the issue before your cargo gets stuck or delayed. What would result in weeks of delay and thousands of dollars in fees at other freight forwarding companies will barely be a blip of the radar when you check your cargo tracking.
We are also one of the few freight forwarders that can clear cargo at any port in the United States, and we have contacts at ports all over the globe. That is what freight forwarding and customs brokerage is really about – relationships and reputations– and we have cultivated ours for decades.
At Packair, want to build our relationship with you. That is why we have experienced customs consultants available free of charge to our clients available around the clock, in every time zone. Instead of talking to a third-party customer service agent overseas, you speak directly to the agent assigned to you.
Why Trust Packair?
Our team has decades of experience in the shipping industry, and we know exactly what it takes to get your products where they need to go. We can help you ship domestically or internationally, making sure your cargo arrives on time, in good condition.
No matter what volume or dimensions of your equipment, where you’re going or where you’re shipping to, we’re here for you. Packair ensures your freight will reach its destination safely and securely, on-time, and cost- effectively.
Packair is:
- Fully Licensed and Certified TSA CCSF
- An import and export fully licensed NVOCC
- Controlled and qualified degassing per SER regulations
We’re Here to Make Your Life Easier.
We’ll help you with:
- Handling of documentation, A-to-Z
- Export license processing
- Import customs clearance
- Cargo insurance
- Worldwide consolidation
- Door-to-Door delivery
- Container loading and unloading
- Warehousing, storage, domestic, and international distribution
- Innovative domestic and cross-border e-Commerce fulfillment services
- Transloading container trucking
How do I get a Quote for Air Freight Services?
We offer a free quote on forwarding your cargo across the sea. In order to give you an estimate, we’ll need to ask you:
- How many shipments will you be shipping?
- What type of packaging will you use?
- How much packaging will you use?
- How much does that packaging weigh?
- How much does the cargo weigh?
- What are the dimensions of your packaging?
- What are the dimensions of your cargo?
- What are you shipping?
- What is the estimated value of your cargo?
- Will you require pickup
- Would you like to purchase additional insurance?
- How many shipments do you make per month?
- Where are you shipping to?
Alternatives to Ocean Freight Forwarding
If ocean freight forwarding doesn’t sound right for your business, we can also help you with:
- Air freight services
- Ground freight forwarding
- Cargo insurance
- Custom crating
- Drayage services
- Courier services
- And more!
If you aren’t sure of the best way to send your cargo, no worries – we’re happy to help you figure it out. Just give us a call!