TBS

Whether you’re navigating the unknown or dealing with familiar territory, when it comes to Latin America, TBS has the experience, expertise and manpower to move your cargo to, from and within the region.

Latin America is home to some of the strongest emerging markets in the world, and TBS is already there!

TBS combines international reach with domestic strength. We’ve got our TBS commercial offices throughout the Americas, LASA— our in-house port agency network, our warehouses, our TBS Port Captains, our liner/parcel services making regular sailings to, from and within the region, and our joint venture company Log.Star servicing the cabotage trade by transporting bulk, breakbulk and project cargoes along the Brazilian Coast, the Amazon River Basin, and throughout the Mercosul market. With all that, plus our Peruvian and Ecuadorian arrangements for domestic shipping, there’s no denying that Latin America is who we are!!

Our Latin American Presence

• TBS commercial offices in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile
• TBS Port Captains on staff stationed throughout Latin America
• 5 TBS owned warehouses in Quito, Guayaquil, Callao, Matarani, and along the Peruvian banks of the Amazon River in Pucallpa
• LASA, our in-house port agency network with regional offices in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico
• 4 TBS liner/parcel services connecting Latin America to the global marketplace

From Kobe, Japan to Huasco, Chile, TBS has been on the move to provide its valued, long term client, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with an efficient, timely service for their power plant construction needs.

Mitsubishi technology and TBS are rewriting the future of power generation in the Americas with heavy-lift, high-tech megaproject cargoes of turbines, boilers and equipment transported thousands of miles over sea to developing regions in Latin America.

The challenges of coordinating the planning, movement and scheduling of project and general ocean cargo can often be complex. When it comes to "Giant Cargo" like these three pieces—weighing 190mt, 240mt and 295mt—it takes TBS port captains, TBS planning, TBS teamwork and TBS expertise to lift, stow, deliver and discharge these "Mega-Loads" in remote ports a world away.

What makes TBS unique is our fleet of specialized ships and our team of professionals in key locations worldwide. They move heavy-lift project cargo in a virtually seamless operation.

A major strength of TBS has been its ability to develop business around key trade routes between North America, Latin America, China, Japan and South Korea, as well as in select routes in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East.

TBS is more than just an ocean transportation company!