We move freight like it is ours
Haulmark started in 2009 with two trucks, a borrowed office in Joliet and one promise to a furniture importer: we will tell you the truth about your shipment, early. It is still the job.
From two trucks to 34 facilities
Our founders ran dispatch for a large carrier and kept watching the same thing happen. Customers learned about delays from their own customers, because nobody whose job it was had told them. They left to build a forwarder where the person who quotes a shipment stays with it until it is signed for.
That model scaled better than anyone expected. We opened a cross-dock, then a bonded warehouse, then an ocean desk in Rotterdam. Today Haulmark moves freight for 1,200 shippers through six offices, eighteen warehouses and ten gateways, and every account still has one named team.
2009
Two trucks in Joliet
Dedicated road freight for a single furniture importer.
2012
First warehouse
A 60,000 sq ft cross-dock beside the Joliet intermodal yard.
2015
Licensed customs broker
In-house brokerage for every US port of entry.
2017
Rotterdam opens
An ocean desk and a European distribution centre in Venlo.
2020
Asia Pacific
Offices in Singapore and Shanghai, origin consolidation in Shenzhen.
2024
Electric shuttles
Zero-emission trucks on our busiest port drayage routes.
2026
1,200 shippers
Thirty-four facilities in seventeen countries, one system.
How we operate
Four rules that every desk, warehouse and driver works to.
One team per account
The people who quote your freight plan it, book it and answer the phone when it moves. No hand-offs to a call centre.
Bad news first
If a vessel rolls or a flight is cut, you hear it from us, with a recovery plan, before you hear it from anyone else.
Measured in public
We publish our on-time rate every month, by mode, including the months we would rather not.
Assets where they matter
We own the warehouses and the drayage fleet, and buy linehaul, ocean and air capacity from carriers we audit.
Wherever your freight is going
Thirty-four places on six continents, and the lanes we run between them every week.
- Chicago, United States: Headquarters and North America control tower
- Rotterdam, Netherlands: Europe headquarters and ocean desk
- Singapore, Singapore: Asia Pacific headquarters
- Shanghai, China: Origin office for East China
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Middle East and India desk
- São Paulo, Brazil: Latin America office
The people who run the network
Our leadership came up through dispatch desks, warehouse floors and customs offices.
Leadership
Certified and audited
Independent audits of our quality, security and environmental standards, renewed every year.
- ISO 9001Quality management
- ISO 14001Environmental management
- C-TPATCustoms-Trade Partnership
- AEO-FAuthorised Economic Operator
- TAPA FSR AFacility security
- GDPGood Distribution Practice
- IATA CEIVPharma air handling
- SmartWayEPA freight partner
Lower emissions per tonne, every year
Freight produces emissions, and pretending otherwise helps nobody. We measure ours with the GLEC Framework, report them to every customer by shipment, and cut them where the physics allows.
- Shipment-level emissions on every invoice, calculated to GLEC v3
- Mode-shift advice on quotes where rail or ocean is a real option
- Solar on the roofs of eleven warehouses, and more each year
- Sustainable aviation fuel available on request for air freight
- CO₂e per tonne-km since 2019
- −31%
- Electric trucks on drayage routes
- 84
- Renewable power at owned sites
- 100%
- Net-zero target, validated by SBTi
- 2040
Tell us what you are moving.
A specialist will come back with a firm price and a plan, usually within two hours.