Honolulu Freight Services

Honolulu Freight Service has spent 76 years building a tradition of superior service and cost effective solutions for every customer, big or small, who trusts us with their cargo. Since 1936, HFS – a family-owned-and-operated company – has provided the highest quality of seamless transportation service between the North American continent and the Hawaiian Islands of any other forwarder in the field. HFS owns and operates our own Oahu trucking and warehousing service, ensuring the best possible intra and inter-island service available.

Honolulu Freight is a multi-modal freight forwarder. We provide ocean transport and offer pickup and delivery of dry freight from anywhere in the United States to and from the Hawaiian Islands. We provide partial and full container load services, and offer short-term warehousing. In addition, we offer refrigerated pickup and delivery from the U.S. West Coast port areas to Hawaii.

HFS is committed to providing you, our valued customers, with excellent, efficient and comprehensive transportation solutions to and from the Hawaiian Islands.

LCL or Less than Container Load is a service that we have embodied since 1936. Our asset based facilities are fully staffed with on-site HFS ocean experts in cargo consolidation awarding our customers the edge they expect to maintain their inventory levels and remain leaders in their markets. HFS’s 79 year heritage of handling Less than Container Load shipments, allows our transportation specialists the advantage of competitive logistical pricing your business deserves and professional grade handling your shipment requires from our 4 West coast terminals to all of our Hawaiian island terminals. Our network of trucking carriers, single HFS bill of lading and web-based tracking affords you the ease of one freight bill with less handling and weekly reliable service from any point on the continental U.S. to Hawaii while improving your supply chain efficiency door to door.
Our exceptional HFS Less than Container Load program benefits include:
Competitive & fast rate quoting
Dry and refrigerated cargo asset based consolidations
Asset based locations fully staffed with HFS employees
4 full service West coast consolidation freight stations for easy drop off
Onsite company owned trucking divisions available for quick local pickups and deliveries
Los Angeles, CA
Oakland, CA
Portland, OR
Tacoma, WA
5 full service Hawaii terminals
Onsite trucking divisions available for on-time store door delivery and pickups
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Kona
Maui
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Multiple weekly sailings
Nationwide pickup coverage
Intermodal solution experts
Short-term and Long-term Warehousing and Storage availability
Freight Tracker – web-based tool for easy tracking & tracing
Simple, single door to door HFS bill of lading

The HFS team of ocean freight experts, nearly 80 years in the Hawaiian trade lane, offers competitive container solutions, optimal routing alternatives and reliable transport of goods from any point on the continental U.S. to Hawaii and Guam. Our asset based facilities are fully staffed with on-site HFS ocean experts in cargo consolidation awarding our customers the edge they expect to maintain their inventory levels and remain leaders in their markets. Since 1936, our established partnerships with the major steamship lines & barge companies, network of nationwide trucking and intermodal carriers are utilized in every quote and every shipment offering cost effective container pricing while providing logistical expertise.
The HFS advantage is a competitive, complete door to door container management that your business deserves. HFS will coordinate nationwide pickup service, set up all intermodal routings and ocean container & barge bookings to ensure on time store door delivery to all major Hawaiian Islands. Our simple, single HFS bill of lading affords you the ease of one freight bill with less handling, weekly reliable door to door service, keeping you informed and up to date using Freight Tracker, our web-based tracking tool.

HFS can handle chill shipments/35 degrees, Frozen/0 to -10 degrees, and even chocolate/confections at 65 degrees. With our enclosed reefer dock facilities, you can be assured the cold chain is maintained from origin to destination.
For 80 years, Honolulu Freight Service has exclusively serviced the Hawaiian Islands from the mainland with our refrigerated service.
We specialize in both less-than-container and full container load shipments as well as full container load consolidations.
We get your shipments to any island destination from any origin point via one of our four convenient terminal locations.
We offer frozen and chilled storage in Honolulu.
Honolulu Freight Service’s refrigerated program promises:
Competitive freight rates.
Timely delivery schedules.
Utilization of pre-chilled containers.
24/7 shipment tracking.
We guarantee the quality of your frozen or chilled product and ensure your perishable goods will arrive in top condition to their Hawaii destination.