Shipping Miami to Brazil · ocean & air Thirteen days
by sea. Overnight by air.

Two answers, because there are two services. By sea: thirteen days port to port, Port Everglades to the Port of Santos, direct with no transshipment. By air: overnight — the flight leaves Miami the same evening and lands in São Paulo state the following morning. Add your inland time at both ends either way: collection to our Miami dock before the cutoff, then clearance and road delivery at the far end.

Weekly, every Friday, and the week before it runs to three cutoffs. Cargo has to be on our Medley dock by Friday 12:00, shipping instructions are due by Friday 15:00, and the container is gated in at the terminal by Tuesday 16:00 — all for the vessel that sails the following Friday. Miss the Friday pair and you roll a week.

Book by noon and have the cargo on our dock by 17:00, and it goes out that night. Both cutoffs are same-day, which is the whole point of the air option — an ocean booking made Monday is already waiting for Friday. The five o’clock cutoff is firm because the airline screens the cargo after we tender it, and that takes time we do not control.

Both run daily and our agent clears at either, so it comes down to where the cargo is going. Viracopos (VCP) at Campinas sits in the aerospace and technology corridor inland from São Paulo, which is where a lot of this lane’s cargo actually ends up. Guarulhos (GRU) is São Paulo’s main international gateway and usually the better call for the city itself. Tell us the delivery address and we will pick.

Ocean is booked with Hapag-Lloyd, MSC and Maersk — three carriers on one lane means we can quote against more than one schedule instead of being tied to a single service’s space or rate. Air is LATAM Cargo into both Viracopos and Guarulhos, freighter and belly depending on the shipment.

Yes. We have both freighter and belly capacity on this lane, so oversize goes on whichever aircraft suits it. Send dimensions and weight and we will confirm before you commit the cargo — that is a conversation worth having at booking rather than at the dock door.

Our agent in Brazil — a licensed customs house that clears air, ocean and road cargo, with people at the port and at the airport. Brazil has the heaviest import formalities of any lane we run, which is exactly why the entry is filed by a dedicated broker rather than by whoever happens to meet the ship. The same agent handles Santos, Viracopos and Guarulhos.

Yes — São Paulo and Campinas as standard, by road from Santos or from either airport. Our agent runs international and dangerous-goods road transport on their own authority, so the cargo does not change hands again after clearance.

Both run on this lane. If you are not filling a container, your cargo consolidates with other shipments heading to Santos. Past a certain volume a full container works out cheaper per unit and does not wait on consolidation — send us the dimensions and weight and we will price it both ways so you can see the crossover.

Yes, by sea and by air. We need the completed Dangerous Goods Declaration and the MSDS before the cargo reaches our dock — a misdeclared shipment stops the whole consolidation on the ocean side and misses the flight on the air side. Our agent moves dangerous goods by road at the Brazilian end themselves, so there is no extra handover after clearance.

Perishable and refrigerated cargo. That applies to both modes and to our Miami warehouse generally — we are not set up for it, and we would rather say so now than take the booking. Everything else on this lane, including machinery, out-of-gauge pieces and classified dangerous goods, we handle.

Whether you want it by sea or by air — or both, and we will price them side by side. Then: where we collect or whether you deliver to our dock; the destination city; piece count, dimensions and total weight; whether the cargo is palletized, crated or loose; the commodity and its value for insurance; any dangerous goods classification; and when it needs to land. A rate comes back within four business hours.