Stop managing four vendors to move one container
Most importers do not have a shipping problem. They have a coordination problem.
The ocean carrier books the sailing. A separate customs broker files the entry. A third company picks the container up at the port. A fourth sells the cargo insurance. Four contacts, four invoices, four sets of paperwork, and four different people to call when a container sits at the terminal collecting demurrage.
Gateway Lines was built to end that. We are an all in one ocean freight forwarder: one contact, one quote, one invoice, and one team accountable from the factory door to your dock.
What "all in one" actually covers
Ocean freight
FCL and LCL bookings with direct portal access across the major carriers including MSC, CMA CGM, Hapag Lloyd, Maersk, ONE, ZIM, COSCO, Evergreen, HMM, OOCL, and Yang Ming. That means we are pulling live space and rates rather than waiting on a third party to come back to you with a quote tomorrow.
We are an FMC licensed NVOCC and ocean freight forwarder, so we can issue our own bill of lading and control the routing rather than passing your cargo down a chain of agents.
Customs clearance
Entry filing, ISF, duty calculation, and classification handled through our licensed customs brokerage partner and managed inside the same file as your booking. You are not forwarding arrival notices between two companies and hoping the timing works. The broker gets the documents the moment the carrier releases them.
Drayage and final delivery
Port pickup, chassis, and delivery to your warehouse, coordinated by the same team that booked the sailing. When a vessel arrives early or a terminal appointment moves, the drayage adjusts with it. No handoff, no lag, no demurrage surprise because two vendors were not talking.
Cargo insurance
All risk ocean cargo coverage quoted at the time of booking and turned on by default on every shipment. No separate broker, no separate certificate chase, no discovering after a loss that the carrier's liability limit covers a fraction of what your goods are worth.
Carbon insetting
Verified emissions reductions applied to your actual shipment through certified fuel producers, priced per container and shown on your quote. It is on by default. If your buyers, your investors, or your ESG reporting need documented Scope 3 reductions, the paperwork is generated with the shipment instead of reconstructed at year end.
One invoice instead of four
This is the part that shows up on your desk. Instead of reconciling an ocean freight invoice, a brokerage invoice, a drayage invoice, and an insurance premium against one container, you get a single invoice with every line itemized.
That does more than save your accounting team an afternoon. It also removes the place where margin quietly hides. When four vendors each mark up a piece of the move, nobody sees the total. When it is one file, you see exactly what the ocean leg costs, what the entry costs, what the dray costs, and what the coverage costs.
The real cost of a split supply chain
Multi vendor moves fail at the seams, not in the middle. A few common ones:
The broker did not have the commercial invoice, so the entry filed late and the container sat past its free days.
The drayage company was never told the vessel arrived two days early, so the appointment was missed.
The cargo was damaged and the insurance was placed under terms that did not match the actual routing.
Nobody owns the delay, so every vendor points at the one upstream.
With a single file owner, none of those handoffs exist. There is one team looking at the booking, the entry, the dray, and the coverage at the same time.
Tools included, not sold separately
Every Gateway Lines customer gets access to the same platform tools we use internally:
Tariff calculator for landed cost and duty exposure before you commit to a purchase order: tariff.gatewaylines.com
Ocean rates board for live market pricing by lane: oceanrates.gatewaylines.com
3D load planner to confirm your cargo actually fits before you book the box: load.gatewaylines.com
Container tracking and document access through your customer portal, with milestone updates from origin to delivery
Who this is built for
Importers and exporters moving FCL or LCL ocean freight who are tired of being the project manager for their own supply chain. If you are the person forwarding emails between a carrier, a broker, and a trucker to keep one container moving, that job should not be yours.
Get a quote
Send us a lane and a commodity. You will get a single all in quote covering ocean, customs, drayage, insurance, and insetting, with every line broken out so you can see exactly what you are paying for.
Frequently asked questions
Is an all in one freight forwarder more expensive than using separate vendors? Usually the opposite. Splitting a move across four vendors means four separate margins and four billing cycles. Consolidating removes the stacked markups, and it removes the detention and demurrage charges that come from bad handoffs.
Do you handle customs clearance yourself? Customs entries are filed by our licensed customs brokerage partner, managed inside the same shipment file as your booking. You deal with us. We deal with the broker.
Can I use your ocean freight service without the drayage or insurance? Yes. The services are bundled by default because that is where the savings are, but you can unbundle any piece if you already have a provider you want to keep.
What lanes do you cover? Global ocean coverage with strong depth on Asia, Europe, Turkey, and Latin America into US East Coast, Gulf, and West Coast ports.
What is carbon insetting and do I have to buy it? Insetting applies verified emissions reductions inside your own shipment's supply chain rather than buying unrelated offsets. It is on by default and priced per container on your quote, and you can remove it at booking.