From import clerks to branch managers, we find permanent forwarding people in Felixstowe who know the paperwork and the customers.
We look for people who have worked your modes and lanes: air, sea, road, imports, exports or cross-trade.
Felixstowe is the UK's largest container port, handling around a third of the country's containerised trade — the natural home of forwarding, customs and port-logistics talent. Across Suffolk & the Haven ports, forwarders serve importers and exporters shipping through the A14, A12 and the Felixstowe-to-Nuneaton rail freight route, plus the Port of Felixstowe.
A forwarding offer competes with every broker and carrier within reach. We help set salary and commission so it lands first time.
Forwarding demand across Suffolk & the Haven ports follows port and container logistics, customs and forwarding businesses, FMCG and agri-food supply chains and national 3PLs.
From junior operators to branch and business development managers.
Air, sea or road, import or export: we match forwarders to the work they have actually handled.
For a new branch or trade desk we can recruit the manager and the team together.
We keep in touch through notice periods and the first months, while a new forwarder learns your customers.
Indicative permanent salaries in Felixstowe run from around £26k for clerks up to £55k+ for branch managers.
Salary is only part of the offer. Candidates compare commission, bonus, hybrid working and the accounts they will run. Figures are indicative, not a guarantee.
Modes, lanes, systems, customers and the gap the new hire needs to fill.
We approach forwarders and customs specialists directly, including the ones who are not looking.
We stay in touch through the first months as the new forwarder takes over accounts.
A forwarder who knows a customer's history avoids the mistakes that lose accounts.
Forwarders who leave early often cite workload, weak systems or no route to account management. We raise all three first.
A strong forwarding brief covers:
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Yes. We recruit permanent air, sea and road forwarders, customs specialists and branch managers for businesses across Suffolk & the Haven ports.
Yes. We recruit customs compliance specialists and declarations agents for importers, exporters and brokers.
Yes. We recruit forwarding BDMs and ask about the business they have won, not just the targets they were set.
Yes. We cover businesses across the East of England. Tell us where the office is and we will search the commute around it.
Upload your CV and tell us your modes, lanes and systems. We contact you when a permanent role fits.
Freight forwarding recruitment elsewhere in the East of England:
Other specialisms in Felixstowe:
See our national Freight Forwarding Recruitment page, or all logistics recruitment in Felixstowe.
A short brief is enough to start: the modes, the systems and the start date.