Ship-to-shore cranes at first light
Services
Five moving parts, coordinated as one file
CCS is a logistics consultancy and freight forwarder. We do not own the trucks and we do not hold a customs broker licence — we hold the relationships, and we take responsibility for making them work together on your shipment.
A traditional setup means separate contracts with a forwarder, a customs broker, a drayage carrier and a warehouse — and when something goes wrong, four parties who each explain that it was someone else's step. We sit in front of all of them. One scope, one quote, one point of contact, and one person whose job it is to know where your freight is and what it is waiting on.
01 · Customs
Customs clearance coordination
Most entries that go wrong were decided weeks before the goods moved, by a question nobody asked. Our job is to ask it in time:
- Broker selection. We match your commodity, lane and port to a licensed broker who handles that work every day, and introduce you to them directly — you sign the power of attorney with them, not with us
- Document collection. We chase the supplier’s commercial invoice, packing list and certificates, and check they agree with one another before they reach your broker
- Classification inputs. We gather the technical detail a classification decision needs — materials by weight or value, function, assembly, intended use — so your broker is not guessing from a two-word product name
- Binding rulings. Where the answer looks genuinely arguable, we flag it so you can ask your broker or customs attorney whether a CBP ruling request is worth filing
- Partner-agency awareness. FDA, FCC, CPSC, APHIS, EPA, DOT — so nobody discovers a requirement at the port
- Supplier screening against the UFLPA Entity List and restricted party lists, before the purchase order rather than after the booking
- Exams and holds. We keep the file moving, and get your broker whatever your supplier needs to send, fast
You will always know the name of the licensed customs broker filing your entry, you will hold the power of attorney with them directly, and their invoice reaches you unaltered.
02 · Freight
Freight forwarding
Rate negotiation, space booking, consolidation and tracking across ocean, air and truck. We quote the whole lane rather than the leg, so the number you see includes the destination charges that usually appear at the end.
- Ocean FCL — full containers from Asian, European and Latin American origins to US ports, with inland rail and drayage to El Paso and beyond
- Ocean LCL — consolidated shipments where volume does not justify a full box
- Air freight — for launches, stockouts and anything where the freight premium is cheaper than the lost sale
- Cross-border truck — FTL and LTL through the El Paso–Juárez crossings and other Texas ports of entry
- Cargo insurance — arranged as standard, because carrier liability limits are far below the value of most shipments
03 · Transport
Transportation management
Planning and executing the domestic and cross-border movement of goods once they are in North America, built around your delivery window rather than around carrier convenience.
- Port and rail-ramp drayage, with appointment management and free-time monitoring to avoid demurrage and detention
- Transloading from ocean containers into domestic trailers
- Bridge selection and crossing timing for the Juárez–El Paso corridor, where a two-hour scheduling error costs a day
- Northbound and southbound coordination with Mexican carriers and customs agents
- Expedited and dedicated moves when a production line is at risk
04 · Storage
Warehousing & storage
Secure storage and handling through vetted partner facilities on both sides of the border, sized to what you actually need rather than to a minimum contract.
- Short-term and long-term storage, including bonded options where deferring duty makes sense
- Inventory management and cycle counting with visibility you can check yourself
- Pick, pack and order fulfilment
- Value-added handling — labelling, kitting, repacking, country-of-origin marking correction
- Free trade zone positioning for qualifying operations
05 · Advisory
Trade compliance consulting & training
The work that saves money before a shipment exists, and the work that keeps you out of trouble afterwards.
- Landed-cost modelling across two or three candidate origins — freight, handling and duty built on the classifications your broker confirms, so sourcing decisions are made on real numbers
- Classification reviews of your existing catalogue — we scope and project-manage them, a licensed broker or customs attorney makes the determinations. Most importers have not re-checked since 2019, and the rates have moved
- Supplier due diligence and forced-labor screening against the UFLPA Entity List and restricted party lists
- Recordkeeping design that satisfies the five-year requirement without becoming a filing cabinet nobody maintains
- Recovery opportunities flagged — drawback, post-entry corrections and the IEEPA refunds now moving through CBP. We tell you where to look; your broker or customs attorney files the claim
- Team training on general customs procedure for purchasing, logistics and finance staff, in English or Spanish, so the people placing orders understand what they are committing to
Working port, aerial
Sector focus
Where we are strongest
Los Angeles / Long Beach to El Paso
Most of our container volume runs this route. Ocean FCL arriving at the San Pedro Bay ports, then rail or truck the 800 miles inland to El Paso — with your licensed broker lined up before the vessel berths and free time tracked so demurrage never becomes the surprise line on the invoice.
Crossing into Mexico
For the shipments that do not stop in El Paso, we coordinate the southbound move through the El Paso and Santa Teresa crossings — Mexican carrier, customs agent on the Juárez side, and timing built around the bridge rather than fighting it. We are based here, which means we know which crossing is moving this week.
Maquiladora & just-in-time
Inbound materials management, outbound finished-goods distribution and inventory positioning for operations running on a schedule that cannot absorb a customs hold.
Tell us the shipment and we will scope it.
Commodity, origin, volume, and the date it has to land. You will get a route, a cost, and an honest note about anything that could go wrong.