EXPERTISE
We continue to enhance and expand our trade-sensitive expertise through strategic expansions within current markets and into new ones. Learn more about the growth of our organization in our quest to offer unrivaled support for our customers on our Heritage page.
Meat, Seafood, & Dairy Goods
Your customers expect year-round access to premium proteins and dairy. We support clients like you with their beef from South America, salmon from the North Atlantic, shellfish from the Mediterranean and Asia, and specialty cheeses between the US and Europe. Procuring and distributing these products across borders means navigating complex USDA and FDA requirements, cold chain logistics, and rigorous inspection procedures. You need a partner who understands the perishable protein and dairy trades from dock to distribution.
Beyond our decades of experience in meat, seafood, and dairy logistics — and our active participation in U.S. food safety and trade associations — we’re consumers too. We ensure your shipments meet all regulatory and cold chain standards so your products arrive fresh, safe, and ready for sale — and we can enjoy them with our families at our own tables.
Our protein and dairy expertise includes:
- USDA FSIS and FDA coordination for meat, seafood, and dairy imports
- Cold chain management from port to final destination
- HTS classification and documentation for regulated perishable goods
- On-site inspection support at major chilled and frozen ports
- Industry participation with MICA, IFPA, and IDDBA
With on-site teams at key perishable gateways and cold chain experts on staff, you can simplify your perishable supply chain and focus on your core priorities. Trust Alba to navigate the complexities of meat, seafood, and dairy imports — ensuring compliance, protecting quality, and keeping your products in market.
Lumber, Paper, & Pulp Products
Your customers depend on a steady supply of lumber, paper, and pulp products — whether it’s hardwood from South America, softwood from Canada, recycled paper from Europe, or pulp from Asia. Your sourcing and distribution spans continents, and each shipment must navigate U.S. customs requirements, trade regulations, and environmental compliance measures. You need a logistics partner who understands both the pace of your industry and the rules that govern it.
We offer deep experience in forest product logistics and active involvement in U.S. trade and manufacturing associations to ensure your shipments meet all federal import regulations so your products get to market.
Our forest product expertise includes:
- Compliance with Lacey Act requirements for imported wood products
- HTS classification accuracy for complex material grades and product types
- Management of import licenses, certificates, and country-of-origin documentation
- Coordinated handling of bulk, breakbulk, and containerized shipments
- Industry participation with IWPA
With on-site representation at key breakbulk and container ports, plus remote filing capabilities at all others, you can simplify your forest product supply chain. Trust Alba to navigate the complexities of lumber, paper, and pulp imports — ensuring compliance, minimizing delays, and keeping your business supplied.
Wine & Spirits Products
No matter if you’re importing Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand, Malbec from Argentina, craft gin from Europe, or an American made bourbon, pinot, or cabernet, you need a logistics partner who understands the nuances of alcohol importation, the requirements of U.S. customs, and the various state controls and requirements. Beyond our decades of experience in beverage logistics and our active participation in U.S. alcohol and beverage associations, we’re consumers too. We ensure your shipments meet all federal and state requirements so your products arrive in market — and we can enjoy them ourselves.
Our wine and spirits expertise includes:
- TTB and FDA compliance coordination for imported alcoholic beverages
- State-specific bailment and demand planning expertise
- International and domestic temperature-controlled transportation for sensitive, high-value products if required
- Specialized handling for mixed beverage portfolios and multi-origin loads
- East and West coast warehouse distribution points
With on-site representation at key ports for alcohol imports, bonded warehouse access, remote filing capabilities nationwide, and unmatched intermodal capacity, you can simplify your beverage supply chain. Trust Alba to navigate the complexities of wine and spirits imports, ensuring your products meet regulatory standards, maintain quality, and stay available for your customers.
Produce & Perishable Goods
Is there a supply chain more time-sensitive than that of the fruits and vegetables industry?
With proficiency in handling fresh produce—including citrus, stone fruits, herbs, tropical fruits, berries, asparagus and more—we support importers and shippers in navigating the complex, temperature-controlled, time-sensitive supply chains associated with this sector.
With more than 30 years of produce-specific industry experience, we have the comprehensive regulatory knowledge to engage regulatory authorities where necessary, and to ensure your compliance with mandates and stipulations, keeping clearances on track and maintaining the value of your products.
Rely on us for:
- Customs optimization
- Superior compliance alignment
- Alignment with USDA/APHIS Fumigation Requirements, Country of Origin requirements
- Administrative support for agriculture and customs exams
- Representative during FDA sample collections
- Assistance with management of temperature-controlled transportation and storage
- 24/7 support and direct access to experienced professionals and customs brokerage services
- Knowledge of the critical importance of speed and transparency with produce, and more
With proven performance, we stand ready to unlock efficiencies and deliver reliability for your most challenging perishable imports and exports.
Clothing, Textiles, Footwear, & Accessories
Seasonal fashion products can lose value each week they’re still in transit or storage. International freight forwarding for fashion brands like yours cannot be held up as a result of an incorrect classification or suspected Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act violation. Trust your apparel and footwear supply chain management to a reliable apparel and footwear shipping company – an organization with a history of supporting the fashion and textile industry for more than 75 years. We support you with decades of apparel logistics services experience, in-house trade consultants, and access to the same AI-powered supply chain risk assessment platform used by CBP. You can benefit from:
- Forced labor risk assessment and mitigation to protect your brand and your cashflow
- Advanced tariff forensics
- PO management and order fulfillment
- Real-time inventory visibility and supply chain management
- Specialized landed cost reports for clear financial oversight
You can reduce your overall landed cost by leveraging or in-house trade compliance guidance, avoid duties with in-bond transfers to Mexico-based fulfillment centers, and command a higher cost with in-season availability. Spend less on your supply chain and earn more for your products. Let’s chat.
Food and Beverage Products
Your consumers demand the year-round availability of your products, so your sourcing scours the globe and whether it be proteins and wines from Australia and New Zealand, fruits and juices from South America, seafood and beers from the Mediterranean, or herbs, spices, and waters from anywhere around the world, you need your 3PL partner to provide consistent food and beverage supply chain solutions and a reliable pathway through US regulatory import procedures.
Beyond our 120 years of logistics experience for perishable food items and our involvement with US food and beverage associations, we’re consumers too. We ensure FDA logistics compliance so your products reach the stores, and we can buy them for ourselves. Our logistics expertise includes:
- Long-term relationships with FDA
- Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) MSA proficiency
- Beverage demand planning for states subject to bailment regulations
- Board and committee membership to US food and beverage associations
With on-site representation at all of the major chilled and frozen ocean freight ports and remote filing capabilities at all others, you can simplify your food and beverage supply chain. Trust Alba to navigate the complexities of food and beverage imports, maintaining the utmost in safety and compliance, and helping to put your foods and beverages on all of our tables.
Semiconductors & Electronics
The name KSI was synonymous with the provision of advanced logistics for semiconductor manufacturing, and customized shipping solutions for electronic components. The San Francisco-based company was the leader in high-tech supply chain solutions for decades. KSI joined the Alba community in November 2022 where we empowered the team with corporate support, technology enhancements, and the free rein to continue building on what they’d established thus far.
If you partner with Alba for your semiconductor and electronics logistics management program, you’ll be working with the team who crafted and secured approval for what eventually became the creation of HTS heading 8486, the section and chapter legal notes, and most notably, the associated Explanatory Notes that were adopted by the WCO as amendments to the 2007 Harmonized Tariff Schedule covering this product group.
Through this team, we offer:
- Binding ruling requests
- PSC and protest submission
- Legislative advocacy
- Customized supply chain program design
Chemicals & EPA Regulated Products
Americans’ focus on public health and safety means chemical importers like you are experiencing additional scrutiny and regulatory burden. So how do we provide specialized logistics for EPA-regulated goods? We vetted and certified partners who go beyond typical expectations. For instance, our network of ISO tank haulers operates throughout the United States and Canada. Collecting tanks from ports and rail yards, your product is delivered to your customer. Tanks are then thoroughly cleaned and returned to origins within prearranged timelines and very cost-effectively.
- Hazardous material transport expertise with vetted and certified partners with detailed carrier performance analytics
- Early adopter of the EPA Notice of Arrival (NOA) pilot
- Paperless status in all EPA regions
- Full point-to-point supply chain visibility
Trade sensitive imports
If you’re struggling to find a logistics partner to support you with your trade-sensitive product’s transportation requirements, we want to speak with you. Our expertise in handling trade-sensitive product logistics is how we’ve made a name for ourselves.
Ethical and compliant sourcing and transportation is of course top of mind for you, but you must be able to demonstrate your strategy as you approach US borders. We can help:
- UFLPA Risk assessments on upstream providers, components and raw materials from sensitive environments
- Antidumping / countervailing / trade remedy duties
- Multiagency admissibility approval management
- Bilateral trade agreement and country of origin product valuation guidance
Partner with us early when possible, but even if you have an established supply line, we can assess your environment, guide you should there be risks, and provide you with a comprehensive logistics and customs solution for your trade-sensitive goods should you need it.
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