Shipping from Miami to Brazil

By sea, 13 days port to port, Port Everglades to Santos, direct with no transshipment. Count from our cargo cutoff and it’s 20 days, because the cutoff is a week before the sailing. By air, overnight: the flight leaves Miami the same evening and lands in São Paulo state the next morning. Add pickup to our dock at the start, and clearance and road delivery at the far end.

Every Friday. Cargo has to be on our Medley dock by Friday 12:00 PM, shipping instructions are due by Friday 3:00 PM, and the container is gated in at the terminal by Tuesday 4:00 PM, all for the vessel that sails the following Friday. Hazmat and bonded cargo close 24 hours earlier, Thursday 12:00 PM. Miss the Friday cutoff and the cargo waits a week.

Book by 12:00 PM and have the cargo on our dock by 2:00 PM, documents complete, and it goes out that night. The 2:00 PM dock cutoff is firm, because the cargo still has to be tendered and screened before the flight. Hazmat closes 24 hours earlier.

Both run daily and our agent clears at either, so it comes down to where the cargo is going. Viracopos (VCP) is in Campinas, in the aerospace and technology corridor inland from São Paulo, where a lot of this lane’s cargo 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’ll pick.

Ocean is booked with Hapag-Lloyd, MSC and Maersk. Air is LATAM Cargo into both Viracopos and Guarulhos, freighter or belly depending on the shipment.

Yes. There’s both freighter and belly capacity on this lane, so oversize goes on whichever aircraft suits it. Send dimensions and weight and we’ll confirm before you commit the cargo.

Our agent in Brazil, a licensed customs house that clears air, ocean and road cargo, with people at the port and at the airports. The same agent handles Santos, Viracopos and Guarulhos and files the DUIMP. On the U.S. side, we file the export (EEI through AES) as your authorized agent.

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 its own authority, so the cargo doesn’t change hands again after clearance.

Both run on this lane. If you’re not filling a container, your cargo consolidates with other shipments for Santos in our Medley warehouse. Past a certain volume a full container works out cheaper per unit and doesn’t wait on consolidation. Send dimensions and weight and we’ll price it both ways.

Yes, by sea and by air. We need the completed Dangerous Goods Declaration and the MSDS before the truck arrives. A misdeclared shipment holds up the whole consolidation on the ocean side and misses the flight on the air side.

Habilitação in Siscomex (the “Radar”) from Receita Federal, a CNPJ, or a CPF for an individual, to put on the bill of lading or air waybill, and any registration or certification its product needs from ANVISA, ANATEL, INMETRO or MAPA, lined up before the cargo ships, plus the import license where one applies. Our agent files the DUIMP at the Brazilian end.

Yes. Brazil’s agriculture ministry, MAPA, controls wood packaging, and pallets, crates and dunnage need the ISPM 15 treatment mark. Check the stamp before the cargo leaves Miami.

Cargo that has to stay cold can’t come through our Miami warehouse, which has no cold storage. By air it can go from your supplier straight to the airport, and by sea in a reefer that loads at your supplier. Brazil itself bans used consumer goods and restricts used equipment.

Tell us if you want sea, air or both priced side by side. Where we pick up, or whether you’ll deliver to our dock. The destination city. Piece count, dimensions and total weight. Whether it’s palletized, crated or loose. The commodity and its value for insurance. Any dangerous goods class. And when it needs to land. A rate comes back within 4 business hours.