Your Global Logistics Partner
SWF Global Forwarding, your trusted partner since 2014, simplifies global trade. We’re dedicated to ensuring that your goods reach their destinations on-time and in compliance with local regulations. As global leaders in forwarding, we combine expertise with extensive networks to offer unparalleled reliability, flexibility, and efficiency.
Whether it’s air, ocean, or rail, SWF provides timely and reliable transport services to ensure your goods reach any corner of the globe, tailored to your unique needs and priorities.
With offices globally and collaboration with select carriers, we assure you a blend of local expertise and global reach. Our dedicated teams across major routes ensure your cargo’s safety and punctual delivery.
Navigate the complexities of global trade effortlessly. Our customs experts, active in numerous countries, ensure fast, compliant clearance, reducing potential delays and penalties.
Committed to sustainability, SWF offers green logistics services, providing insights to optimize and reduce the carbon footprint of your supply chain, ensuring both cost-efficiency and environmental responsibility.
Forwarding services
SWF Air Freight
SWF Global Air Freight provides a comprehensive and flexible air freight service, ensuring quick and reliable transportation of goods worldwide. This service guarantees on-time delivery to every country, adhering to local regulations. SWF works with a network of carefully selected carriers, operating on major global routes, to help customers plan with certainty and fulfill their promises. The service includes expert support and dedicated staff at airports to ensure safe handling of air freight cargo. Additionally, it offers efficient customs clearance assistance through a network of customs experts, facilitating smooth global trade. The BeGreen Solutions aim to reduce emissions and increase logistics efficiency by optimizing routes, thereby improving speed to market while minimizing environmental impact.
SWF Ocean Freight
SWF Ocean Freight offers flexible, cost-efficient, and fully coordinated end-to-end ocean freight solutions. This service ensures that cargo reaches its destination economically, without compromising on quality or reliability. SWF provides tailored ocean cargo shipping solutions, leveraging extensive equipment and consolidation options to meet specific needs. With a global presence in over 180 countries, SWF simplifies international trade, offering expert logistics solutions across various sectors. The service emphasizes quality and visibility, providing full shipment visibility and a range of quality-controlled equipment types. SWF’s reliable network includes collaborations with major carriers and planned space protection from key ports, ensuring on-time delivery. Ocean Freight options include Full Container Load (FCL) for reliable, flexible door-to-door shipping, and Less than Container Load (LCL) for smaller shipments. SWF also offers Temperature Controlled Ocean Freight for sensitive cargo, and specialized solutions like Ocean Bulk for non-hazardous liquids or dry cargo, and Ocean Non-Containerised Loads for oversized goods. The BeGreen initiative ensures sustainable practices, including the use of sustainable fuels.
SWF Rail Freight
SWF Rail Freight offers cost-effective and environmentally conscious rail logistics solutions, providing reliable and efficient movement of goods. Tailored to meet specific needs, these solutions are faster than ocean freight and more cost-efficient than air freight. SWF offers flexibility in moving goods of any size, with pre-defined rail logistics schedules and multimodal solutions. They guarantee on-time delivery with stable lead times and fixed arrivals and departures, enhancing supply chain planning. The Track and Trace system ensures visibility and control, offering daily updates on cargo location. The BeGreen initiative focuses on reducing emissions and increasing supply chain efficiency through strategic network planning and routing. Additionally, SWF provides Less-than-Container-Load (LCL) and Full-Container-Load (FCL) rail multimodal services between major business centers in Europe and Asia, including options for temperature-controlled cargo, customs handling, and cargo insurance. The SWF Eurasia Train service offers exclusive, fast rail freight routings between China and Europe, tailored for speed and cost efficiency.
SWF Cargo Insurance
SWF Global Forwarding offers comprehensive Cargo Insurance to cover the full value of your freight against loss or damage from external causes during transportation. This insurance bridges the gap between standard liability and the actual value of goods, providing peace of mind in the event of damage, loss, or theft. SWF offers exceptional service and pricing for all customers, with options for single or multiple insurance coverage, including high-risk cargo and destinations other companies may not cover. Designed by risk management specialists, the insurance features competitive rates without deductibles or excess, and it’s conveniently included on a single invoice. SWF targets a 30-day maximum claims resolution and handles claims locally with personnel who speak the local language and can settle in local currency. Cargo Insurance Options include Ad-hoc Cargo Insurance for specific shipments and comprehensive Cargo Insurance for all SWF Global Forwarding shipments over a pre-defined period, such as one year, ensuring maximum protection with minimal administrative effort.
Be Green
SWF Global Forwarding offers BeGreen Solutions, a comprehensive range of green logistics services designed to decrease CO₂ emissions and increase the efficiency of international logistics operations. These services include sustainable alternatives for all transport modes and tools for carbon transparency, providing insights into optimizing logistics and improving carbon efficiency. SWF’s BeGreen Solutions portfolio offers various levels of carbon transparency tools, such as an online calculator for single shipments and detailed carbon reports for all transport providers. They also provide BeGreen Plus, an initiative to reduce main haul carbon emissions using sustainable marine and aviation fuels, and BeGreen Offsetting, compensating CO₂ emissions with high-quality carbon credits from recognized climate protection projects. Additionally, BeGreen Optimisation helps avoid CO₂ emissions through green supply chain design, offering guidance on carbon efficiency and reduction strategies like modal shifts and consolidation. This comprehensive approach ensures documented accountability, KPI focus, and understanding of carbon footprints, leading the industry towards cleaner and more sustainable ocean and air freight operations.