Multi-client Warehousing
Puerto Rico
The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is a dynamic, expanding market for tourism and hospitality supplies, manufacturing components and chemicals, energy products, and infrastructure systems. Con-way delivers a key competitive advantage: the fastest, most direct shipping service for Puerto Rico freight from the continental U.S. and ten Canadian provinces to Puerto Rico. While shipments are in transit, our Puerto Rico specialists coordinate with the consignee and expedite document processing — no ocean bill of lading or advance booking required. We have our own service center in San Juan, ensuring prompt delivery.
Multiple Weekly Sailings
Frequent, flexible sailing schedules that meet your requirements and your customers’ needs. You can choose which port of exit you would like to use — Jacksonville, FL, or Elizabeth, NJ — to ensure your shipments arrive in Puerto Rico when you need them to be there.
Flexible Billing, One Invoice
You specify the billing (prepaid, collect, prepaid to port, collect beyond, etc.), and all land and sea shipping costs are consolidated in a single invoice.
In addition to all of the great Con-way advantages you already know — a commitment to excellence in service, an industry-leading on-time average, and a powerful Web site that gives you the tools you need to succeed — shipping to Puerto Rico with Con-way offers many additional benefits for shippers and customers:
- Your shipment will arrive more quickly than with other carriers because Con-way uses only fast, reliable ocean-vessel service from port to port, not conventional barge transport (which can take several days longer).
- As an exclusive agent, Con-way can deliver as quickly as possible, with maximum flexibility and visibility, while other carriers share agents and drivers.
- Significantly faster service on the U.S. leg of the trip
- Full container-load service available
- Northbound and southbound service available
- Warehousing and distribution
- Tax-payment service available through our partnership with WR Tax Clearance service
- With same-day pickup, and no prior booking required, Con-way’s less-than-truckload (LTL) network of more than 460 service centers moves shipments quickly and efficiently to exit ports.
- Automatic 52% discount off all shipments, unless a different pricing arrangement is reached
- Through-rate quotes that include ocean pricing
- A single Con-way invoice and single-company accountability save time and reduce paperwork.
- Flexible billing — prepaid, collect, prepaid to port, collect beyond, etc.
- Either a standard or electronic bill of lading (e-BOL, created on the Con-way Web site) can be used, with no ocean BOL required. Be sure to list the Puerto Rico consignee on the BOL consignee line.
- Shipments are trackable on the Web site simply by using the Con-way-assigned PRO number.
- Consignee is notified pre-arrival for faster tax clearance. (Consignees may be subject to Puerto Rico excise tax.)
Useful Links
- Product Value Over $2,500 Requires Export Declaration. Get forms.
- U.S. Customs Service
- Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce (in Spanish)
- World Factbook Information About Puerto Rico