Logistics consulting · South Florida
Mares Agency is an independent consulting firm. We learn how your business actually runs, find where logistics is costing you, and streamline the process. And because we serve as the commercial desk for motor carriers and ocean forwarders at Port Everglades and PortMiami, we can connect you with suppliers along the way. We are not here to add another layer to your supply chain. We are here to make the ones you already have work better together.
Mares works from the operations side of the fence, not the sales side of a freight desk.
Most logistics consultants have spent their careers on the commercial side — quoting freight, managing accounts, reading rate sheets. The experience behind Mares comes from marine terminal operations: planning vessel and yard moves, redesigning how trucks flow through the gate, and measuring what those changes were actually worth.
That shows up in the advice. Knowing why an appointment is unavailable rather than simply that it is. What a dual transaction really saves once you account for the chassis. How the last free day and the per-diem clock overlap, and where importers get billed twice without ever noticing. Which delays belong to the terminal and which are your own.
Lean Six Sigma method, applied to container flow rather than a factory floor. The result is advice you can test against your own invoices rather than a framework you have to take on trust.
Most supply chains do not fail because a provider is bad. They fail in the gaps — between the terminal and the trucker, the forwarder and the broker, the appointment and the warehouse door. We find those gaps and tell you what they cost.
Where demurrage, per-diem, chassis days and exam fees are actually going, and which of them were avoidable. Most importers are paying for free time they never used and detention they never disputed.
An objective read on what you pay versus what the market pays, and whether your current mix of providers fits the volume you actually move.
Appointment strategy, dual transactions, pre-pull decisions, delivery windows and the handoffs between them. Lean Six Sigma method applied to a container yard rather than a factory floor.
A structured look at coordination, visibility and accountability across your providers, with a written set of findings you can act on with or without us.
Four steps, and you hear from us at each one.
Enter the move above and see what the carriers we represent are charging on your lane.
Confirmed the same day in most cases, with the assumptions written down so nothing shifts later.
Appointment set, driver dispatched, tracking shared. You hear from us, not from a queue.
The carrier that moved it bills you, with accessorials raised before they land.
You do not need to change everything to improve something. Tell us the one thing in your logistics that is not working, and we will show you how to streamline it.
One point of contact from the terminal appointment to the delivery signature. No handoffs between three departments who each know a third of your load.
Container pickup and empty return at Port Everglades and PortMiami. We watch the appointment windows, the last free day and the per-diem clock, and tell you when one of them is about to cost you money.
Dry van, reefer and flatbed across Florida and the Southeast, on equipment that belongs to the carriers we represent — their authority, their insurance, their drivers.
Ocean container stripped into domestic trailers, palletized or floor-loaded, with storage while your DC catches up. Useful when the container has to go back before the freight has somewhere to go.
Delivery orders, bills of lading, customs release status and terminal appointments tracked in one place, with a status you can forward to your customer without editing it first.
Permits, escorts and specialized equipment for loads that do not fit a standard trailer. Quoted case by case.
Mares is a commercial agent for truckers and freight forwarders, and that is still the whole business. We keep your equipment loaded and handle the paperwork around it.
Our business model allows us to white glove each customer, offering boutique services that focus on you.
That is a deliberate choice, not a limitation. The person who quotes your load is the person who stays with it, so a customs hold, a chassis split or a driver waiting ninety minutes at a warehouse gets handled rather than queued behind volume.
The business is built on time spent around marine terminals, not only in front of a load board. That shows up in the practical parts: knowing why an appointment is unavailable, what a dual transaction saves you, and when a container genuinely cannot come out today.
The goal is straightforward. Fewer surprises, and a rate that still means the same thing at invoice.
We are not here to add another layer to your supply chain.
We are here to make the ones you already have work better together.
Tell us what is moving and where, and you will see the rates we hold with each carrier, built up line by line. Send it through and we take it from there.
Pick the one that fits your load and send it over. You get a written confirmation before anything moves.
For anything the rate check does not cover — project cargo, recurring lane pricing, warehousing or carrier representation — reach out and you will get the person who handles it.