V.T. Mancusi

After serving as an air traffic controller during World War II, Vincent Mancusi returned to New York and applied to work in a similar role at JFK, then known as Idlewild Airport. While waiting for an opening, Vince took a job with a customs broker and began to learn the trade. Vince was a natural and V. T. Mancusi Inc. customshouse brokers opened in 1950. Initially, the company supported the news industry, aiding Time Inc. and other media companies with the airfreight and customs brokerage work for news photographs.

“Time is an element of profit” became a mantra in the company as it recognized the value of news photography diminished the longer it took to clear and deliver – news waits for no one.

Business boomed as international air transportation boomed, and Vince soon found himself forming relationships with overseas agents. With a particular knack for flavors and fragrances coming from France, Vince helped establish a niche in that market. As these companies began to recognize and utilize the advantages of Foreign Trade Zones, VTM (as the company came to be known) kept pace and began to specialize in servicing FTZs. The cost-saving regulations of the FTZs helped VTM’s clients achieve significant growth and VTM kept pace by adding well trained staff to meet the growing market.

Vince’s sons, Tom and Vin, grew up in the industry and their father’s business, working in the warehouse, as messengers, and in the office learning the trade. Tom earned his customs broker license in 1980, and Vin married Marian, who added a customs broker’s license to her accounting degree and joined the company. The three of them took over for Vincent T. Mancusi during the mid-80s and continued to grow the company through word-of-mouth and their stellar reputation for service, especially the trade-sensitive flavors and fragrances business.

V.T Mancusi Inc. joined the Alba community in July 2023, broadening Alba’s FDA-regulated industry competency. The organizations shared a passion for tackling trade-sensitive product transportation and clearances, and their desire to see their customers succeed, and combining expertise and experiences to aid current and future customers just made sense.