We Move Your Containers. You See Everything.
Gateway Lines is an ocean freight company. We book space on container ships, handle the customs paperwork, and get your cargo from a factory overseas to your door. The difference is you can watch the whole thing happen, and the software costs you nothing.
In Plain English
If you buy goods from overseas, someone has to get them onto a ship, through customs, and onto a truck to your warehouse. That is what we do.
Gateway Lines is a licensed NVOCC, which means we act as the carrier without owning the vessels. We buy space on container ships in volume, resell it, and issue our own bills of lading. You get one company accountable for the whole move instead of a chain of brokers handing your cargo along.
A shipment looks like this. You tell us what you are importing and from where. We quote a rate, book the space, arrange pickup at the origin, move the container across the ocean, clear it through US Customs, and truck it to your door. The whole time, you can see where it is.
Most forwarders either charge for software or send you a spreadsheet. Our platform is free to customers and we make our money on the freight itself. Booking, satellite tracking, customs filing, documents, invoices, cargo insurance, duty calculation and emissions reporting all live behind one login.
What We Do
The Short Version
We move containers across oceans. We do it faster, cheaper, and with more visibility than traditional freight forwarders. Here's how.
Direct Carrier Contracts
We buy space directly from carriers like MSC, Maersk, CMA CGM, COSCO, Hapag-Lloyd, and others. No middlemen between you and the ship.
Satellite Tracking
Every container tracked via orbital AIS, not carrier EDI. You see where your cargo is in real time, with predictive ETAs powered by vessel speed and weather data.
Automated Operations
Booking, documentation, customs filing, invoice generation, all automated. What takes most forwarders days takes our system hours.
FMC Licensed NVOCC
Federally licensed to operate as a Non-Vessel Operating Common Carrier. We issue our own bills of lading and take full responsibility for your cargo.
Integrated Customs
Customs clearance built into your Gateway dashboard and filed by our licensed customs broker partners. ISF, entry, duty calculation, and compliance, managed in one place.
Door-to-Door Capability
Origin pickup, ocean transport, customs clearance, drayage, final delivery. One platform, one point of contact, one invoice.
Why Gateway
What You Actually Get
Not marketing promises. Real differences you'll notice on your first shipment.
The Platform
One Portal. Everything You Need.
Booking, tracking, customs, documents, insurance, analytics, inventory. All in one login. No switching between tools.
Who We Work With
From Startups to Enterprises
Whether you ship 5 containers a year or 500, the platform is the same. The pricing scales with you.
SMB
E-commerce brands, importers, and growing businesses shipping their first containers
Mid-Market
Established companies with regular volume looking for better rates and visibility
Enterprise
Large shippers needing API integration, custom workflows, and dedicated support
From the Blog
Gateway News Blog
Tariff changes, policy deadlines and market moves, written up the day they land.
Aug 25, 2026
The Drone Tariff Starts September 3. Six HTS Codes Sit on Both the 100 Percent List and the 25 Percent List.
Section 232 duties on unmanned aircraft systems take effect at 12:01 a.m. eastern on September 3, 2026 under Proclamation 11055. Coverage has focused on the headline rates, 100 percent and 25 percent. The harder problem is that the same six subheadings appear on both lists, and the only thing separating them is whether the aircraft carries a thermal imager, which no HTS code records. Here is what is covered, why the allied country ceilings are narrower than they look, why drawback is almost entirely closed, and what CBP still has not published with ten days to go.
Aug 25, 2026
Section 338 on Canada Is Live at 50 Percent. The Covered List Reaches Honey, Cement and Cut Flowers.
The additional 50 percent duty on Canadian goods took effect at 12:01 a.m. eastern on August 22, 2026, after trade talks collapsed the night before. Most coverage describes it as a dairy, alcohol and auto tariff. That describes why the duties were imposed, not what they hit. The annexes are broad retaliation lists spanning 554 subheadings, and a shipment of Canadian honey now pays 50 percent. Here is what is actually covered, what is carved out, why a valid USMCA certificate does not help, and what changes again on September 8.
Aug 20, 2026
One Partner for Ocean Freight, Customs, Drayage, Insurance, and Insetting
Most importers run one container through four separate companies: a carrier, a broker, a trucker, and an insurance provider. Gateway Lines consolidates ocean freight, customs clearance, drayage, cargo insurance, and carbon insetting into a single booking with one invoice and one team accountable for the entire move.
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Questions? Email info@gatewaylines.com or call (844) 542-8392