Strait makes international shipping as simple as ordering a ride. Tell us what you’re moving, where it’s going, and we handle everything — customs, documents, carriers, clearance, delivery — in your language, powered by AI. Whether you’re an SME shipping your first container or a manufacturer moving thousands of tons a year, the experience is the same: simple, visible, and fully managed.
Strait operates natively in 13 languages across every major corridor. Not translated — native. Every document, communication, and platform interface in your language.
Legacy forwarders built their networks around the Atlantic and transpacific. Strait is built for the corridors they ignore — the fastest-growing trade lanes connecting China, the GCC, Africa, South Asia, and emerging economies to the rest of the world. Each corridor below is staffed, monitored, and optimised as its own operation.
You should not need a customs broker, a carrier contract, or a logistics degree to move cargo across borders. Strait manages every step — origin pickup, export customs, ocean or air booking, import clearance, last-mile delivery — as a single managed service. One point of contact, one platform, full visibility. Here is exactly what that covers.
Real-time visibility into every shipment, corridor, and customs status. One command center for your entire global supply chain.
Every city below is a node in our corridor network — not a pin on a map. Each has specific port infrastructure, customs authority relationships, carrier connections, and operational protocols. Filter by region to see our coverage density where it matters most.
Intra-Africa trade is projected to grow 52% by 2030. China-GCC trade exceeded $300B in 2023. South Asia-Middle East corridor traffic grows double digits annually. The freight industry’s response has been to bolt on regional offices to networks designed for US-EU trade in 1974. Strait is building purpose-built infrastructure for these corridors from day one.
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Tell us what you’re moving and where. We handle every step from there — in your language, on your timeline. No freight expertise required. No commitment to start.
Strait is building the platform that makes international shipping accessible to any business, anywhere — from a first-time importer in Kigali to a manufacturer in Guangzhou moving thousands of containers a year.
International shipping is built for people who already understand international shipping. If you are a multinational with a logistics department, a customs broker on retainer, and carrier contracts, the system works for you. If you are a small business trying to import your first container from China, or an African exporter trying to reach the Gulf market, the system is a wall of acronyms, paperwork, middlemen, and opacity. You pay more, wait longer, and have no visibility into where your cargo is or why it is stuck.
This is not a technology problem. It is a design problem. The freight industry was designed by and for large Western corporations shipping between the US, Europe, and East Asia. The fastest-growing trade corridors in the world — China to Africa, GCC to East Africa, South Asia to the Middle East — were never part of that design. They were bolted on as afterthoughts.
Strait is a freight forwarding platform built from scratch for these corridors. We use AI to handle the complexity that makes international shipping inaccessible — customs classification across 45+ jurisdictions, document generation in 13 languages, regulatory compliance monitoring, carrier selection, and end-to-end tracking. The result is an experience where you tell us what you are shipping and where, and we handle everything else.
We are not building a better version of what exists. We are building something that does not exist yet: a single platform where any business, regardless of size or expertise, can move cargo across borders with the same simplicity and visibility they expect when they order something online.
Strait was founded by Hassan, a Somali-Canadian-American entrepreneur based in Minneapolis. Born in Canada, raised between North America and East Africa, with time spent in Europe and China, Hassan has lived on every side of the trade corridors Strait serves. He speaks the languages, understands the cultures, knows the regulatory landscapes, and has seen firsthand how broken the shipping experience is for the businesses and communities these corridors connect.
Hassan built Strait from the conviction that global trade is the most powerful engine for economic development in the world — but only if the people who need it most can actually access it. The SME in Nairobi, the factory in Guangzhou, the trader in Jeddah, the diaspora entrepreneur in Toronto — these are the people Strait is built for. The technology, the corridor expertise, and the cultural fluency all exist to serve one goal: make shipping as simple as it should be.
Strait Trading Company LLC is incorporated and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
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Our corridor specialists respond within 4 hours with a full rate breakdown and transit options, in your language.