Warehouse racking stocked with palletised retail goods
Retail and wholesale

Speed to market, without losing control of the cost

Whether you are an established online merchant or a growing wholesaler, we move goods from manufacturer to consumer across ocean, air, road and rail — with the customs and transportation steps handled on the same file.

How we help

Reduce complexity across your supply chain

Retail and wholesale distribution passes goods through many intermediaries before they reach a consumer. Every hand-off is a place where visibility drops and cost creeps in.

We partner with leading retail brands to provide freight transportation, import and export, and direct fulfilment — running the international leg, the clearance and the domestic handling as one chain rather than three contracts.

The practical result is that a delay in one leg is visible to the team handling the next, and transportation spend can be allocated and analysed across lanes instead of reconstructed after the quarter closes.

What we move

Typical retail and wholesale cargo we handle:

General merchandise eCommerce inventory Seasonal goods Consumer electronics Housewares Promotional stock
Services for this sector

From factory floor to fulfilment

The services most retail and wholesale programmes draw on, available through one point of contact.

Ocean freight

FCL and LCL through all major ports, on our own NVOCC.

Ocean freight

Air freight

Global airfreight when the deadline will not move.

Air freight

Customs brokerage

Licensed in-house clearance and classification.

Customs brokerage

Land transportation

Drayage, intermodal rail, FTL and LTL nationwide.

Land transportation

Consolidation

Retail consolidation and deconsolidation to order profile.

Visibility

Know where it is, and what it cost

WorldScope aggregates and normalises data from multiple carriers into one system, so you can track shipments, manage documents and invoices, and report on shipping activity across every lane in one place rather than reconciling four portals.

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Licenses & memberships

UWL is a full-service licensed NVOCC, Ocean Transportation Intermediary (OTI), licensed and bonded freight forwarder with FMCSA broker authority, holds a National Customs House Brokerage License, and is C-TPAT certified.

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Federal Maritime Commission Ocean Transportation Intermediary License U.S. Customs and Border Protection Customs Broker License FMCSA Broker Authority Member of the NCBFAA
Get in touch

Optimising a retail supply chain?

Call 440-356-5353 or submit the form and a member of our team will get back to you.

UWL does not handle shipments of personal effects for private individuals.

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