About
Built around the handoff
Freight rarely fails in motion. It fails where it changes hands. Checkpoint Cargo was built to make every one of those moments visible.
Since 2009
We started as a three-desk forwarder in Houston, Texas, working a single Gulf Coast– Rotterdam lane for manufacturers who were tired of guessing where their containers were.
The answer was never a fancier portal. It was discipline: scan the cargo at every transfer, publish it immediately, and staff a control tower that never closes. That habit turned into the checkpoint model the company runs on today.
Houston is still home. From there we run company branches and vetted affiliate agents across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America — with our largest overseas presence in China, where dedicated desks in Shenzhen, Shanghai and Ningbo handle factory pickup, consolidation and export clearance in-house.
Sixteen years later we clear customs in 84 countries and scan over 1.4 million checkpoints a year — with the same rule holding: if we touched it, it's on the record.
No silent cargo
If a shipment sits, you hear it from us first. Exceptions are published to the tracking record, not buried in an inbox.
Operators, not scripts
Every account has named dispatchers. The person who answers at 2am can actually move the freight.
One record, end to end
Mode changes, transfers and customs stops all land on the same tracking number — no reference juggling.
Network
Hubs on the ground
Houston, TX
Global HQ & 24/7 control tower
Shenzhen, CN
South China consolidation
Shanghai, CN
East China ocean & air desk
Ningbo, CN
LCL buyer's consolidation
Hong Kong, HK
Transshipment & air charter
Los Angeles, CA
Transpacific gateway
Laredo, TX
Mexico cross-border
Rotterdam, NL
European ocean gateway
Hamburg, DE
EU road network
Dubai, AE
Middle East affiliate desk
Singapore, SG
Southeast Asia hub
São Paulo, BR
South America affiliate