Operational strengths
The requirements checked before departure rather than discovered at the border, and one set of documents that stays consistent across every leg of the journey.
Freight forwarding
Freight Forwarding Services in UAE
We manage every stage of your cargo’s movement, from documentation through to customs clearance, combining sea, air and road into a single accountable booking.
What we offer
One movement, however many legs it takes
Freight forwarding is the service that sits over the others. Rather than booking an ocean leg here, a truck there and a customs broker separately, you describe the journey once and we assemble it.
That means choosing the mode and routing against your cost and deadline, booking the capacity, preparing the paperwork, clearing customs, and arranging collection and delivery at both ends.
Mode and routing
Sea, air and road compared against your deadline and budget before anything is booked.
Documentation
Transport documents, invoices and packing lists prepared and checked before the cargo moves.
Customs clearance
Entries prepared and filed, with the requirements confirmed before departure rather than at the border.
Agent coordination
Partners across more than 100 countries handling the legs we do not perform ourselves.
Industries on this service
Cargo profiles on this service
Forwarding covers all nine of the sectors we serve, because the service is defined by the coordination rather than by the commodity.
- Chemical industries, including hazardous
- Leather
- Garment
- Engineering goods
- Medical equipment
- Heavy machinery & projects
- Wood
- Water
- Printing & media
Business value
One point of accountability for the whole movement. When something slips, you are not arbitrating between a carrier, a broker and a haulier who each blame the other two.
Why Pluz Logistics
Freight and customs handled together, backed by an agent network across more than 100 countries and by a founder with over 20 years in shipping and logistics.
How it works
How a forwarded shipment is handled
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01
Enquiry and routing
You describe the journey and the deadline. We compare the modes and set out the options with their trade-offs.
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Booking and documentation
Capacity is booked and the transport documents, invoice and packing list are prepared and checked.
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03
Customs and transit
Entries are filed, the cargo moves, and we coordinate the handovers between legs.
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04
Delivery and confirmation
Final road leg to the receiving door, and confirmation that the consignment arrived as booked.
Why Pluz Logistics
Why businesses choose us to forward their freight
Most freight problems happen at the joins — between modes, between countries, between the carrier and the broker. Forwarding exists to own those joins.
- Reliability. Getting shipments to their destinations safely and on time is the measure we hold ourselves to.
- Integrity. Honest, transparent and accountable — including telling you when a different mode would serve you better.
- A tailored answer. Solutions built around your cargo and deadline rather than a fixed product.
- Freight and customs together. Clearance is one of our core services, so the handover between the two never falls to you.
- Reach. An agent network spanning more than 100 countries, with our own offices in the UAE and India.
Transparent pricing
What a quotation covers
We separate the charges we control from the statutory ones we collect and pass on, so you can see where the money goes and compare quotes on the same basis.
The exact lines depend on the routing, the commodity and the destination. We confirm them in writing before anything is booked.
Freight charge
Our chargeThe main carriage, priced on the mode and routing booked.
Collection and origin handling
Our chargeRoad leg to the port or airport, plus handling at origin.
Documentation
Our chargeTransport documents and the accompanying paperwork.
Customs clearance
Our chargePreparing and filing the entry at each border the cargo crosses.
Destination handling and delivery
Our chargeHandling at destination and the final road leg to the door.
Duties, taxes and port or airport charges
StatutorySet by the authorities, collected and passed on at cost.
Other services
The rest of what we do
Most shipments use more than one of these. Tell us the whole journey and we will quote it as one.
Transportation
Domestic and cross-border road transport with tracking.
Rail Freight
A lower-cost overland option for heavy, non-urgent cargo.
Third Party Logistics
Warehousing, inventory and distribution handled end to end.
Warehousing
Storage and inventory control before onward distribution.
Customs Clearance
Documentation and clearance so cargo is not held at the border.
Logistic Consulting
Supply-chain analysis to cut cost and keep deliveries on time.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
The questions we are asked most often about this service.
A carrier moves cargo between two points. A freight forwarder arranges the whole journey around that: choosing the mode and routing, booking the space, preparing and checking the documentation, handling customs clearance, and organising the road legs at each end. The practical difference is that you hold one conversation about the shipment instead of five.
If you book a single lane repeatedly, have your own documentation and customs capability and the volume to negotiate directly, you may not. A forwarder earns its place where the routing is mixed, where the paperwork is unfamiliar, where customs is involved, or where something has to be coordinated across more than one mode or country.
Sea, air and road, in whatever combination the shipment needs. Many consignments use more than one — an ocean leg with road collection and delivery, or part of an order flown while the balance sails. We quote the combination as a single movement rather than as separate bookings.
At minimum: the origin and destination, what the cargo is, its weight and dimensions, and the date it needs to arrive. If you know the Incoterm, the commodity code or any licensing requirement, send those too — they affect both the routing and the customs treatment, and they are the usual cause of a quote having to be revised.
Let's talk
Describe the journey once.
Send the origin, destination, cargo details and the date it has to arrive. We will come back with the routing options and an itemised quotation.