Gateway Shipping Services to Alaska and Hawaii

Gateway Crate and Freight has packed and shipped numerous items for commercial and residential customers to the Hawaiian islands and Alaska.

With ocean and air cartage companies servicing Alaska and Hawaii now requiring items to be professionally packaged prior to acceptance for shipment, our professional packing services have become more and more important. We have seen a big increase in items tendered to us for packaging prior to shipment to Alaska and Hawaii.

Artwork, Household goods and industrial machinery has been brought to us for proper packing and shipping. Our secure and economical options for packing which includes boxing, palletizing and crating works well for many of the items people need to move to Hawaii and Alaska.

Our shipping volume has helped us become an economical option for freight moving to and from Alaska and Hawaii. We have well established relationships and discounts with the major ocean and air carriers that service the Hawaii islands and Alaska.

If you are moving to Hawaii or Alaska you need to understand how rates work for these moves. The most important factor is space. How much CBM (Cubic meters) of space your shipment will take up this applies whether your materials are traveling ocean cargo or air freight. 

We can ship both LCL (Less than Container Load) which means your items will fit in an area less than a full 20' shipping container or less than a 40' shipping container. If you have a lot of items to ship you may want a FCL (Full container load), this is where your stuff and only your stuff will be put in the container.

Another factor to consider when pricing is that your items have to be trucked to the port. It is sometimes best to crate and or palletize your materials, ship them truck to the port where they are then consolidated into a container for shipping to Hawaii or Alaska.

Most Alaska Freight moves by ocean as well. The majority of our shipments have been trucked to the ports of Tacoma, WA or Seattle, WA and then containerized for shipment to the closest ocean port in Alaska where it is unloaded and trucked to the recipient.

So keep size and weight in mind when planning on shipping to Alaska and Hawaii.