We started as a two-person customs desk in Houston. Fourteen years later, we route freight across 120+ countries — but the job hasn't changed: get your shipment where it's going, and tell you the truth about it along the way.
Global Ship Line opened its doors as a small customs brokerage handling import paperwork for Gulf Coast manufacturers. We added trucking because our clients needed a way to move freight once it cleared customs — then ocean, air, and rail, for the same reason: shippers kept asking us to take on the next leg.
Nothing about that has changed. We still build services around what shippers actually need, not the other way around.
Global Ship Line opens in Houston, TX, filing import documentation for regional manufacturers.
A vetted carrier network is built to move freight the last mile after customs clearance.
FCL and LCL booking begins across Transpacific and Transatlantic trade lanes.
Time-critical air cargo service launches alongside a round-the-clock operations center.
Regional hubs open in Rotterdam and Singapore to support direct-lane freight overseas.
Global Ship Line crosses 15M cumulative shipments across all four transport modes.
These aren't values we picked for a wall poster. They're the standard our account managers are measured against every quarter.
98.6% on-time delivery isn't an average we round up to — it's the number we report, good quarter or bad.
Live tracking and plain-language pricing — no line items you have to call to get explained.
Customs filings, weight declarations, and routing decisions checked twice before they're final once.
120+ countries served through partners we've vetted ourselves, not sourced from a spot-market board.
Every office is staffed by Global Ship Line employees — not a licensed agent operating under our name.
Customs, ground & executive offices
West Coast ocean & drayage operations
East Coast ocean & air operations
European ocean freight gateway
Southeast Asia trade lane hub
China origin operations & sourcing support
Lower-emission routing isn't a separate service tier — it's a factor in how we plan every lane, alongside cost and transit time.
Get a tailored logistics quote from our team, usually within one business day.
