Sort the list by gateway
Every shipper gets tagged by the gateway it uses: the airport, PortMiami or Port Everglades. That tag decides the opener, the lanes we mention and which of your people takes the meeting.
Miami · Logistics & freight
1,430 forwarders in one metro. Be the one who called.
Shippers around Miami International Airport, PortMiami and Port Everglades get pitched by brokers constantly. We find the ones ready to talk and put that meeting on your calendar.
- Shippers sorted by airport or port
- Logistics managers, not front desks
- Calls on Eastern business hours
Why Miami
An airport, two ports and a crowded broker market
Few US metros move freight the way South Florida does. Miami International Airport ranked first among US airports for international freight in 2025 and handled 3,405,322 U.S. tons in total, 2,889,025 of it international. On the water, PortMiami moved 1,115,058 TEUs in FY2025, and Port Everglades reported a preliminary 1,167,552 TEUs for the same year.
The freight has a shape. Air cargo importers and exporters sit in Doral on the west side of the airport, where Hellmann Worldwide Logistics runs its US head office and Martinair Americas is based. Ocean freight runs through PortMiami on Biscayne Bay and through Port Everglades, which straddles Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood and Dania Beach. A shipper near one gateway thinks about lanes very differently from a shipper near another, and your opener has to match.
Then there is the competition. County Business Patterns counts 1,430 freight transportation arrangement establishments in the metro, which covers forwarders and brokers, plus 3,050 trucking companies and 402 warehousing firms. Every logistics manager in Doral has a stack of voicemails from people offering better rates. Price alone does not get a callback.
What does get a callback is a call that sounds like you know their freight: which gateway they use, which lanes they run, and what changed lately. Big local employers set the tempo too. American Airlines and Amazon are among the largest employers in Miami-Dade, and the cruise lines at PortMiami carried 8,564,225 passengers in FY2025, which keeps a long chain of suppliers moving goods through the region.
We work that market from Nigeria during Eastern business hours, so your list gets called while shipping desks are staffed.
By the numbers
Logistics, freight & 3PL in Miami
Public figures, each linked to its source.
1stMiami International Airport's rank among US airports for international freight, 2025Miami-Dade Aviation Department
1,115,058TEUs through PortMiami in FY2025Miami-Dade County news release, Dec 2, 2025
1,430freight forwarding and brokerage establishments in the metroU.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023
3,050truck transportation establishments in the metroU.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023
Who we call
Who we call for South Florida freight firms
Titles we reach
Logistics managerImport and export managerSupply chain directorOwner of an import or distribution companyWarehouse operations managerPurchasing manager
Where they areDoral and the streets west of Miami International Airport for air cargo importers, the shippers that use PortMiami for containers, and the Port Everglades area across Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood and Dania Beach for ocean freight and petroleum.
What makes them take the call
- A Doral importer posts a job for a logistics or import manager
- A distributor opens or expands a warehouse near the airport
- PortMiami or Port Everglades announces record volume or a new service
- A company moves its head office to Fort Lauderdale or Boca Raton
- A shipper's contract with its current forwarder is coming up for renewal
- A supplier to the PortMiami cruise lines adds volume or a new account
The playbook
How we run outbound for Logistics, freight & 3PL in Miami
Open with a lane, not a rate
Doral managers hang up on rate pitches because they hear several a day. We open with a lane or a mode they actually run and ask one question about it.
Get past the front desk and dispatch
We ask for the logistics manager by name and give a short reason tied to their freight. If dispatch picks up, we ask who signs the forwarder contract and when it renews.
Book with the person who owns the spend
Before a meeting lands on your calendar we confirm volume, timing and who signs. If the renewal is months out, we log the date in your CRM and call back before it.
Before Trifecta
Done before, for US companies
Before Trifecta, Sylvia made high-volume calls to US business owners and got past gatekeepers to hit daily booking targets, the same work it takes to reach a Doral logistics manager through a busy front desk.
Partner track record · before Trifecta
Calling US business owners for a services firm
Sylvia worked the phones for a US services firm, calling business owners and decision makers directly. The job was to get past the front desk, introduce the service, qualify interest and book the appointment for the sales team, while logging every outcome and follow-up. She consistently hit daily and weekly booking targets.
High-volume calls to ownersGatekeepers handledDaily and weekly booking targets
Led by Sylvia Owunnachika →
Trifecta is a new agency. These are the partners’ own past roles, shared with their permission and without naming the employer. See the full track record.
Questions
Logistics, freight & 3PL in Miami: questions
Do you call carriers too, or only shippers?
Mostly shippers, because that is where freight firms usually need meetings. If you are a broker building carrier capacity, we can run a separate list of trucking companies, and the metro has 3,050 of them.
Can you split air freight and ocean freight prospects?
Yes. We tag each shipper by gateway and mode, so air cargo importers near the airport get a different script from container shippers using PortMiami or Port Everglades. Your weekly report shows bookings for each.
Will a Doral shipper take a call from a forwarder they have never heard of?
Not if the call sounds like every other rate pitch. They will if the first sentence names a lane they run and a reason to talk now. We test openers early and keep the ones that get conversations.
Where does your team work from?
Our partners are based in Nigeria and call during Eastern business hours. We have no office or staff in Miami, and we say who we are and who we are calling for on every call.
What happens when a shipper says to call back next quarter?
We log the date and the reason in your CRM and call back before then. In freight, a lot of meetings come from the follow-up, not the first call.
Photos: fred crandon / Unsplash, Ryan Parker / Unsplash.
Sources for figures on this page (7)
- Miami International Airport: About Us
- Miami-Dade County: PortMiami FY2025 news release
- Port Everglades: Port Everglades shatters its own records
- U.S. Census Bureau: County Business Patterns 2023, metro area file
- Miami-Dade County Transit 2024 financial statement (principal employers)
- Wikipedia: Doral, Florida
- Wikipedia: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Book a strategy call
Get in front of South Florida shippers before your competitors do
Book a strategy call. Tell us your lanes and the gateways you serve, and we will tell you straight whether outbound can fill your calendar with shippers here.
- 01We look at your offer, deal size and ideal buyer.
- 02We tell you which channel and package fits, and what volume to expect.
- 03You get a written quote. No pressure.