Leading Freight Forwarder

Our range of transport management solutions, including our freight forwarding services, include:

• Dependable domestic freight shipping and transport services: As a licensed freight broker and asset-based motor carrier, we provide customized high touch/white-glove domestic transport management services: planning, optimizing, coordinating, handling, installing, reporting, and more. We offer full truckload (FTL) and less than truckload (LTL) shipping, padded van transportation, flat bed, heavy haul, rigging services; and more.
• Drayage services: We seamlessly move goods from rail yards and ports to warehousing distribution centers using highly skilled drivers for safe, on-time services. We pull containers, communicate with terminals and ports, and securely deliver the freight. Services include expedited drayage; pier drayage; shuttle drayage; door to door deliveries to retailers; air, rail, and ocean freight forwarding services; chassis and long-haul drayage management; and more.
• Freight brokerage services: We adapt and scale quickly as we bridge a key gap between transportation supply and demand, paying close attention to all of the details and remaining up to the minute on regulatory changes. Specific services provided include door to door delivery; truckload shipping; global freight forwarding services; secure, flexible warehousing; U.S. import customs clearance and documentation; specialized relocation of oversized/heavy items; and end to end supply chain management with a focus on compliance throughout.
• International freight forwarder services: As an international freight forwarder, we provide overseas container shipping and global freight forwarding services with highly vetted warehousing partners around the globe. We’ll be your single point of contact from beginning to end while providing our world-class transportation management solutions. This includes U.S. import customs clearance, drayage, inland trucking, and final mile delivery.
• Parcel Management: working in conjunction with our warehouses, we manage the parcel needs of our customers by leveraging our volume and existing relationships to best fit our customers’ parcel needs.

Reach out to our experts to talk about your specific needs for transportation management services—and then receive world class service!

Freight forwarders like NXTPoint Logistics serve as the intermediary between a manufacturer or other business with shipping needs and the final receiver of the products, serving as the crucial center of a shipment triangle. This process can involve a combination of multimodal transportation options, including road transportation, rail freight, sea/ocean transportation, and air freight. Quality freight forwarders develop solid relationships with partners across the transportation industry, collaborating with them for seamless logistics and negotiating the best pricing for secure, on-time delivery.

Typically, freight forwarders manage large shipment volumes within a single transport and delivery of goods. These transactions can be complex with companies offering excellent transportation management services streamlining and simplifying the process.

When selecting the best firm for freight forwarding services for your business, there are several issues to consider. First, ensure that the transportation management solutions being offered match your needs. Does this company handle the types of goods you’ll ship from your location to the recipient destinations? Do they offer the shipping modes you need and/or prefer? What about customs documentation and compliance? If you have high-value goods, what are the limitations of liability and what coverage options exists? Packaging and labeling? What else is on your list of requirements? Will they customize their transportation management services to your needs?

You’ll want to ensure that the freight forwarders of choice are experienced, overall, and have expertise in the geographic areas that matter to your business. This can be especially true if you’ll be involved in international freight forwarding because that involves specialized knowledge from the freight forwarding services, including but not limited to customs requirements, and also means that they must have a strong global network. At NXTPoint Logistics, we have one with a presence in more than 180 countries with a well-established community of international freight service partners—including in some of the world’s most remote corners. Plus, when choosing a freight forwarding service, consider locations where, in the future, you may expand.

Choose a freight forwarder that offers transparent, competitive pricing and, while you’re weighing your options for a company for freight forwarding services, make sure they’re willing to discuss what goes into their quoting process. This can include the type of products being shipped; the shipping modality; how much the goods weigh and their volume; fees for services such as packaging, labeling, and storing the products plus those for customs management; and so forth.

Find out how you’ll communicate with your freight forwarder as they provide your transportation management services. What technologies will they use? Finally, investigate the reputation of the freight forwarder, including their reliability and ability to consistently meet requirements on time.

You can count on all of the above at NXTPoint Logistics with our transportation management solutions. We streamline our logistics, delivering your assets on time in a cost-effective way. We have a dedicated team of experts in freight handling and a large network: domestic and international. Plus, with NXTPoint Logistics, you’ll benefit from our tech-advanced operations.

We handle freight both domestically and internationally. Within the United States, we provide customized domestic freight shipping and transport management services from start to finish: from planning and coordinating the shipments to handling and delivering the goods and providing real-time reporting. More specifically, we offer both full truckload shipping and less than truckload shipping along with additional services that include padded van transportation and flat bed, heavy haul, and rigging services. As an international freight forwarder, we leverage the power of our enormous network of highly vetted warehousing partners to provide overseas container shipping and freight forwarding services. Our transportation management solutions include custom clearance, inland heavy haul trucking, and final mile delivery, and we offer peace of mind as we serve as your single point of contact.

We also offer drayage services in ports and railyards, handling the freight as we deliver the goods to designated distribution centers. Specific services offered include expedited drayage; pier drayage; shuttle drayage; door to door deliveries to retailers, air, rail, and ocean freight forwarding services; chassis and long-haul drayage management; and more. We also serve as a freight broker, providing a range of services: door to door delivery; truckload shipping; global freight forwarding services; secure, flexible warehousing; customs clearance and documentation; specialized relocation of oversized/heavy items; and end to end supply chain management.

When you choose a transportation management company, having access to all of the services listed above means that you can proceed with confidence with your freight handling needs—knowing that your vendor of choice can flexibly handle the full range of what you require. Here’s how.

When your transportation management company has a broad global reach, international freight forwarding means that you can send products to countries around the world; at NXTPoint Logistics, you can count on trusted warehousing partners along with our ability to reach even remote spots on the globe. As desired, you can also expand your reach to new locations.

The ability to benefit from full truckload and less than truckload transportation gives you greater flexibility. With FTL shipments, you can benefit from maximum cost efficiencies; with LTL, you have the ability to make urgent shipments even if the truckload is not full.

The final mile is the distance a product undertakes from the warehouse facility to the end consumer and, when the mileage is less, this translates into better cost efficiencies and the ability to deliver goods more frequently at higher speeds. This can also enhance the satisfaction of the companies receiving your goods, which can improve your business reputation and contribute to its growth.

NXTPoint Logistics offers all of these services and much more. We can customize our services to dovetail with your needs.