Puerto Rico
San Juan, Ponce, and other Puerto Rico lanes. Puerto Rico is inside the U.S. customs territory, but ocean movement and lane rules require careful planning.
Service territories
NGI may evaluate and arrange freight needs throughout the United States and select offshore, island, and international lanes where the shipment can be handled within NGI's authorized brokerage scope and with properly authorized transportation providers.
Important planning note
Some lanes can involve ocean freight, port coordination, EEI/AES filing, customs territory rules, import/export documents, duties, carrier restrictions, or handoff to authorized ocean, air, customs, or forwarding providers.
Domestic and offshore
San Juan, Ponce, and other Puerto Rico lanes. Puerto Rico is inside the U.S. customs territory, but ocean movement and lane rules require careful planning.
St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. John, and Water Island. USVI is outside the U.S. customs territory and may involve export-style treatment and local duty considerations.
Pacific logistics hub lanes may involve ocean or air movement, inland pickup, port delivery, and documentation review.
Tutuila and the Manu'a Islands require offshore planning and documentation review before acceptance.
Saipan, Tinian, and Rota may require ocean or air routing and properly authorized providers.
International islands
Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada, and Jost Van Dyke.
Nassau, Freeport, and other island destinations.
Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman.
Providenciales, Grand Turk, and related islands.
North Atlantic island lanes often grouped with Caribbean logistics planning.
Hispaniola lanes may require full international shipment documentation.
Hybrid zone
The Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Republic of Palau are independent nations in compact relationships with the United States, so freight may require full international documentation and properly authorized providers.
RMI lane inquiries should include port, consignee, commodity, value, and documentation status.
FSM lanes may involve island-specific routing, port availability, and import requirements.
Palau inquiries should be reviewed for international documentation and carrier capability.
Restricted and prohibited lanes
NGI will not knowingly broker, coordinate, quote, or process any shipment, payment, counterparty, vessel, aircraft, carrier, consignee, or location prohibited by U.S. law, sanctions, export controls, import controls, or denied-party restrictions.
U.S. states, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, and qualifying U.S.-connected lanes may be reviewed when the movement fits NGI's freight-broker authority and uses properly authorized providers.
British Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos, Bermuda, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Canada, Mexico, and other international lanes require documentation, sanctions, customs, export-control, and provider-authority review.
NGI must decline or pause any request involving sanctioned countries or regions, blocked persons, denied parties, restricted end users, embargoed goods, unlawful cargo, or any lane flagged by OFAC, BIS, CBP, TSA, DOT, FMC, or other applicable authority.
Current screening standard: Restricted destinations and parties change frequently. Before any international or offshore load is accepted, NGI should screen the shipper, consignee, carrier, broker partner, vessel, aircraft, goods, ports, origin, destination, and payment instructions against official U.S. government sources, including OFAC sanctions programs and the Trade.gov Consolidated Screening List. Public website examples are not a complete legal list.
Compliance checkpoints
Electronic Export Information is commonly required when the value of a commodity under an individual Schedule B number exceeds $2,500 or another mandatory filing requirement applies.
The U.S. customs territory includes the states, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico; U.S. Virgin Islands ports operate outside that customs territory under separate customs treatment.
Water movements between U.S. points can implicate coastwise vessel rules. Puerto Rico lanes are commonly evaluated differently than certain USVI options.
When ocean, customs, forwarding, or international requirements apply, NGI may coordinate with or refer to appropriately authorized providers rather than acting outside its license scope.