Fort optimizes your shipping experience through a unique approach that provides executive overview, extensive reporting, and active control of every shipment we handle throughout a shipment’s life cycle.

From planning stages, until final delivery overseas, we consolidate and streamline EDI and other shipment information to provide timely updates of any changes in the shipment plan. For over 75 years we have continually worked to improve our system and processes. Our system offers a central repository for information.

We work along with our shippers, vessel operators, truckers, rails, warehouses, local and federal government agencies to create and distribute compliant country specific documentation required for the exportation and importation of the shipment through customs authorities.

Fort Forwarding is optimizing your shipping experience by providing a unique in the industry approach of giving you an executive overview, extensive reporting and control of every single shipment we handle for you. We consolidate data and statuses from shipping lines, provide up-to-date schedule updates to you and your vendors and customers, organize complete dataflow between every single party involved in your shipments, from planning to your customers overseas, streamline information flow between every party involved, and prepare, obtain and distribute complete and compliant with importing country requirements paperwork.

Fort Forwarding is assisting in both in data ( hyperlink to Global visibility of data) consolidation and flow between all parties involved, and complete export documentation preparation. Highly customized documentation sets are prepared while physical movement of the goods with rapid final documentation turnaround time. Our philosophy is speed, accuracy and consistency.

Fort Forwarding, having over 50-years’ experience in exporting goods, has a unique system set with local and federal agencies providing shipping documents and certifications requested by importing countries’ laws. Fort Forwarding is able in minimal time to obtain and prepare complete shipping documents’ set for your shipments. Based on given requirements, Fort Forwarding will prepare highly customized documentation sets for every single importing.

Our unique system allows us to analyze each of orders shipped to identify any needed documents on order level based on the importing country and without delay request them for you. Our EDI, API capabilities with all major players in the shipping industry and our system customization to your shipments, allows us to obtain and distribute information in the matter of seconds.

Fort is an International Freight Forwarder, incorporated in 1947 and operating under Federal Maritime Commission License number 63, we are one of the oldest originally
licensed forwarders in the USA and we are a leader in providing customized logistical solutions for All Modes of International Transport.

Extensive expertise in Ocean, Air, Rail and Truck freight along with a professional staff with access to unique system capabilities enables us to consistently deliver the service and results that inspire confidence in the transport chain.

Our sister company, Ambassador Logistics International, Inc. is a Non-Vessel Operating Common Carrier offering transportation at a reasonable cost a worldwide network at our disposal.

Fort optimizes your shipping experience through a unique approach that provides executive overview, extensive reporting and active control of every shipment we handle
throughout a shipment’s life cycle. From planning stages, until final delivery overseas, we consolidate and streamline EDI and other shipment information to provide timely updates of any changes in the shipment plan.

For over 75 years we have continually worked to improve our system and processes. Our system offers a central repository for information.

We work along with our shippers, vessel operators, truckers, rails, warehouses, local and federal government agencies to create and distribute compliant country specific documentation required for the exportation and importation of the shipment through customs authorities.

Our EDI API capabilities interfaces with all major factions within the shipping industry and our system ensures timely and accurate information. Partnering with largest data providers in the shipping industry and highly developed EDI capabilities allows Fort to be the central data point for information regarding your order from beginning of the exportation process, through bookings, loading, and port operations up until delivery to the customer.

By being centralized point for your shipment data, we can gather, analyze and report information from your suppliers, vendors, vessel operating companies and truckers. By closely monitoring processes for each order, Fort is capable of providing a performance review for each party in the transport chain and identifying opportunities for improvement and systematic solutions.

Fort’s innovative system capabilities are utilized by a talented dedicated staff which enables us to systematically analyze each order shipped to identify any needed documents on order level based on the requirements of principals, their customers and the regulations of the importing country. We share this data with our customers through system communications and EDI.

With the help of Fort Forwarding, you are in control of your order exportation process and can monitor and control performance of all involved parties.

With the help of Fort Forwarding, you are in control of your order exportation process and can monitor and control performance of all involved parties.

Fort Forwarding has a system of creating a customer profile for you which will be unified for all orders for your customers and provide mandatory and requested paperwork in same consistent format.