About Ocean Transport USA

We buy from suppliers in China, Taiwan, Vietnam and India, working through our own agents at origin rather than a broker network — which is why we can look at goods before they load rather than after they arrive. Shipments come in through Long Beach, Miami, Savannah and New Orleans, and we deliver anywhere in the US.

We are an importer. We buy goods, bring them in under our own name as importer of record, and sell them on. We are not a freight forwarder and we do not move other people’s cargo — which is exactly why our customers do not have to become importers themselves. If you have already paid a supplier overseas, the goods are yours and shipping them is a freight forwarder’s job rather than ours; tell us anyway and we will point you at someone who can help.

If you want to know what that actually spares you, the importing guides set it out in detail: the bond, the entry, the classification, the deadlines and the personal liability that all land on whoever is the importer of record. On an order through us, that is not you.