Freight forwarding from Sanford, Florida
Ocean, air and road freight through Florida's seaports and airports, routed and quoted individually by a team that knows every shipment by name.
Now booking October and November sailings, flights and truckloads
Florida importers and exporters who ship with us every month
No rate cards and no packages. Every shipment is routed and quoted on its own, because the right answer for a reefer load to Atlanta has nothing in common with a flat rack to St. Thomas.
Full containers and shared consolidations through JAXPORT, Port Everglades, PortMiami, Port Canaveral and Port Tampa Bay. We choose the gateway by where your cargo actually has to land, not by whichever port is easiest for us. Carrier space, cut-offs and rollover risk are watched from booking until discharge.
Consolidated and direct air freight through Orlando International, Orlando Sanford and Miami International, one of the country's main air gateways to Latin America. It's the right call for samples, high-value parts and anything that can't wait for a vessel. We arrange the air waybill, the screening appointment and the truck to the airport.
Dry van, reefer and flatbed capacity on the I-4, I-95 and I-75 corridors out of Central Florida and on to any of the lower 48 states. Full truckloads when you have the volume, shared LTL when it's a few pallets, and a dispatcher who actually picks up when you ask where the driver is.
Containers pulled from the terminal to your dock, and the empty returned before per diem starts running. We track last free day, chassis availability and terminal appointments at Florida's container ports so demurrage doesn't quietly eat your margin.
Short-term storage, cross-docking and pick-and-pack through partner facilities around Sanford and the Orlando metro, right on the I-4 corridor. Inbound freight is received, counted, photographed and put away, and you get the inventory report the same day.
We work alongside licensed customs brokers on entries, ISF filings and bonds, and we prepare the commercial invoice, packing list and certificates of origin so they agree with each other before the vessel sails. Exports get their EEI filed and their paperwork checked twice.
South Florida is the natural door to the Caribbean, Central and South America, and we ship those lanes every week: consolidated LCL to island markets, full containers to Colombia, the Dominican Republic and Brazil, and air for anything urgent. Our coordinators handle Spanish-language documents on both ends.
Machinery, boats, generators and anything else that won't fit inside a standard box. We plan flat racks, open tops, breakbulk and permitted oversize loads, including route surveys and escort coordination for Florida highway permits.
When a production line is down or a launch date can't move, we book next-flight-out air, team drivers or hot-shot trucks and keep someone on the shipment until it's signed for. You get one contact and steady updates without having to chase anybody.
All-risk cargo insurance arranged per shipment, because standard carrier liability rarely covers what your goods are worth. Every booking also comes with milestone tracking, stored documents and a shared shipment record you can forward to your own customer.
Here's what happens after you get in touch. No portal to sign up for and no call center: one coordinator, start to finish.
Origin, destination, what it is, weight and dimensions, and when it has to arrive. An email to support@halveonav.com is enough to start; a packing list is even better.
Same day
We compare carriers, gateways and modes, then send a written quote with transit time, what's included and what isn't. Project cargo gets an engineering review first.
Usually 1 business day
Once you approve, we book the space, send instructions to your shipper and prepare or check every document before anything moves.
1–3 business days
Your coordinator tracks every milestone and tells you about a delay before you discover it yourself. Proof of delivery and final documents land in your inbox after signature.
POD within 24 hours
Write to support@halveonav.com within seven days and we'll review how we handled your shipment, correct what we can, and where our Refund Policy allows, issue a partial refund.
You can book every leg on your own. Plenty of shippers do, right up until a container sits at the terminal over a mismatched invoice.
The questions shippers ask us most. Anything else, ask us directly at support@halveonav.com.
Freight cost depends on the lane, mode, weight, dimensions, season and carrier space on the day you book, so a rate card would be wrong for most shipments. Send us the details through the contact page and we'll put a written quote in your inbox, usually within one business day. Everything we handle is listed on the services page.
Pickup and delivery addresses, a description of the goods, piece count, weight, dimensions and your ready date. For international moves the HS code and Incoterms help us quote accurately; if you don't have them, we'll work them out with you.
Yes. Dates, addresses and quantities can usually change up to the carrier's cut-off, and we'll tell you in writing whether the change affects cost or transit before we make it.
Tell us in writing at support@halveonav.com within 7 days. We'll review what happened and put it right, and where our policy allows, issue a partial refund. The full terms are in the Refund Policy.
Same business day for most trucking and air requests, one business day for ocean freight, and two to three business days for project or oversized cargo that needs an engineering review.
Jacksonville, Port Everglades, PortMiami, Port Canaveral and Port Tampa Bay for ocean freight, and Orlando International, Orlando Sanford and Miami International for air. We pick the gateway on cost, transit time and where the cargo has to end up.
Refrigerated cargo, yes, by reefer truck and reefer container. Hazardous materials are reviewed case by case and we need the safety data sheet before we can quote.
HalveonAV started in Sanford in 2018, a short drive from Orlando Sanford International and the I-4 interchange, with one desk, one phone line and a simple idea: small and mid-sized Florida shippers deserve the same attention a forwarder gives its biggest account.
Daniel Whitaker had spent years at a Jacksonville forwarder watching smaller importers get rolled bookings, late notices and surprise charges because nobody had time for them. HalveonAV was built the other way around. Every client has one named coordinator, every quote is written down with its exclusions, and bad news travels to you first.
We don't own ships, planes or trucks, and that's deliberate. Central Florida sits between five major seaports on two coasts and three busy cargo airports, so we can route each shipment through whichever gateway makes the most sense that week instead of filling our own equipment.
Everything we do is handled digitally. Quotes, bookings, documents and tracking arrive by email and through shared shipment records, so a buyer in Orlando, a supplier in Ningbo and a consignee in Santo Domingo are all looking at the same information at the same time.
“If your shipment has a problem, I want to hear about it before your customer does.”
Specialty: Caribbean and Latin American lanes, Spanish-language trade documents.
Specialty: I-4 and I-95 truckload, drayage scheduling at Florida terminals.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 across 126 client reviews. A few in their own words.
★★★★★“We moved our fabric imports from a big-name forwarder to HalveonAV two years ago. Maria tells us about a rolled booking before the carrier does, and the quote we approve is the invoice we get. Our container costs are easier to forecast than they have ever been.”
Jennifer AlvarezPurchasing Manager, Orange Blossom Textiles
“They shipped a 34-foot boat on a flat rack to St. Thomas, permits and all. I've done that move with other companies and it was never this calm.”
“Next-flight-out from Orlando twice in one month when a customer's line went down. Booked within the hour both times, with updates at every step.”
“Reefer loads up I-95 every week. Tyrone's desk answers the phone, which sounds basic until you've worked with dispatchers who don't.”