Approved Forwarders strives to consistently exceed our customers’ expectations with the most dependable, professional, friendly, and damage-free ocean freight services at competitive prices.

Since 1991 our company has been solely focused and dedicated to the unique shipping needs in the Hawaii and Guam trade. Approved Freight Forwarders is a family-owned-and-operated company, offering the highest quality freight services for ALL commodities of freight, to ALL types of businesses and people.

Our continued success is due to:

• Our strong commitment to our customers, whom we consider our partners
• Our professional, dependable, and friendly customer service
• Our adaptability to our customers’ unique requirements
• The lowest damage and claims rate in the industry
• Our continued investments in state of the art technology and innovative information services
• Superior shipping and handling of hazardous materials
• Our extremely competitive rates

Approved Freight Forwarders goes the extra mile to take the necessary precautions to ensure that your shipment arrives on time and intact. Our level of expertise in freight forwarding, combined with our unique method of hand loading freight, assures you the best ocean transportation services available.

Approved Freight Forwarders provides the most professional and friendly customer service to you and your suppliers. We work with your suppliers to have your freight picked up the same day it is available. We make the process easy for your supplier, and walk them through each step to ensure expedited service.

We ensure premium trucking services from any location in the Continental United States to our West Coast terminal; and offer same day pick-up service.

Los Angeles Headquarters
Our very large facility in Santa Fe Springs, CA, and well experienced staff gives us the capabilities for warehousing, long-term consolidations, special handling and more. There are 16 state of the art cameras through out the warehouse and office recording day and night for complete surveillance and monitoring of proper handling and security of your freight.

Guam Service
We provide weekly consolidations to Guam and neighboring islands. We will make all necessary arrangements for freight to be transshipped to neighboring islands when needed.

Our Guam Terminal is a Container Freight Station (CFS), which allows for expedited customs clearance. The gates to our facility are locked and monitored 24 hours a day. Surveillance cameras are located throughout our warehouse to ensue the safety of your merchandise.

We take pride in our facility and encourage you to stop by and take a tour.

Hawaii Service
We offer two direct sailings every week to all of the major Hawaiian Islands from the Port of Los Angeles. Our consistent and dependable 5-6 day transit to Oahu compares to deferred air at a much lower rate.

Approved Freight Forwarders is the only forwarder/carrier with complete ownership interest in our terminal operations on all the Hawaiian Islands. (Oahu, Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui). This means you are dealing with one corporation whose interest is in you, the customer and not our agency relationships.