Strategic Container Freight Brokerage Solutions

Container freight brokerage connects shippers with qualified transportation capacity for containerized cargo. Sims Global Solutions helps evaluate the best mode, including drayage, intermodal, truckload, power-only, warehousing, and international forwarding. The goal is to simplify execution, reduce avoidable handling, improve transit visibility, and coordinate carrier relationships through one responsive logistics partner.

A freight broker arranges transportation using a vetted carrier network, while a freight forwarder often manages international movement, documentation, and ocean or air cargo coordination. Sims Global Solutions supports both domestic brokerage services and international forwarding capabilities, helping customers coordinate container moves across ports, rail, truckload lanes, warehouses, and cross-border or global shipping needs.

Sims Global Solutions can support common container-related freight needs, including port and rail drayage, intermodal shipments, power-only moves, full truckload container movements, warehousing transfers, and international ocean freight. The team also coordinates specialized requirements such as high-value cargo, oversized freight, HAZMAT transportation, and time-sensitive shipments when applicable.

Pricing depends on the lane, equipment type, container availability, shipment weight, delivery requirements, accessorials, fuel, market capacity, and timing. Drayage may also include port, rail, chassis, storage, detention, or demurrage considerations. Sims Global Solutions focuses on mode selection and carrier sourcing to identify cost-effective options while keeping service requirements and transit needs in view.

Yes. SimsTrak, the company’s Transportation Management System, supports quoting, scheduling, real-time shipment tracking, consolidated billing, and customized reporting. Customers can access clearer shipment visibility and data-rich insights during and after transportation. This helps teams monitor container moves, respond to exceptions, and better understand freight performance across lanes and modes.

Drayage is the short-distance transportation of containers, typically between ports, rail yards, warehouses, distribution centers, or final delivery points. It is often the first or last mile of an intermodal or international shipment. Sims Global Solutions coordinates drayage with the broader transportation plan to reduce delays, improve handoffs, and keep freight moving efficiently.

Intermodal can be a strong option when freight can move efficiently by combining rail and truck transportation. It may reduce fuel consumption, limit freight handling, improve cost control, and support reliable long-haul movement. Sims Global Solutions helps customers identify opportunities to convert freight to intermodal when the lane, timing, equipment, and shipment requirements make sense.

Sims Global Solutions works with an extensive network of more than 150,000 carriers, including over 35,000 truckload carriers, and uses an in-house Carrier Procurement Team for vetting. The company also offers A+ rated supplemental cargo insurance for high-value freight and supports specialized cargo needs with enhanced monitoring, handling, and documentation when required.