Your business buys by the container and sells three ways at once: Amazon, wholesale accounts, and whatever the market offers next. ProShip3PL devans your load minutes from PortMiami, breaks mixed cartons down to true SKU counts, preps the Amazon share for FBA, case-packs B2B orders for your wholesale customers, and racks the rest — one dock doing the work of an import warehouse you don't have to lease.
The importer's structural problem is a mismatch of units. Purchasing happens in 40-foot increments because that's where the margin is. But Amazon wants prepped, labeled eaches in shipments that match a plan; a wholesale account wants twelve cases on a pallet with their PO number on the label; and the rest wants to sit somewhere cheap until it's sold.
Most importers bridge that mismatch with a leased warehouse — sized for the biggest month, paid for in every month — plus their own labor for devanning and prep. Distributors bolt Amazon onto that setup awkwardly, trucking goods out to a separate prep vendor and giving back margin with every touch.
The intake itself is where accuracy is won or lost. Factory packing lists lie in small ways: mixed cartons, short counts, mislabeled boxes. Our devanning process — detailed on the container receiving page — opens, sorts and counts to SKU level, photographing damage as it surfaces, so allocation decisions rest on real numbers.
From that reconciled count, the split runs on your instruction and stays changeable: nothing commits to a channel until it's picked. Racked reserve is billed by space used — the model on our inventory storage page — so the footprint breathes with your container calendar.
| Load stage | What our floor does with it |
|---|---|
| Arrival | 20–53ft containers, LCL and air freight devanned at the Medley dock |
| Reconciliation | Mixed cartons opened and sorted; SKU-level counts against the packing list |
| FBA share | FNSKU-labeled, bagged where required, case-packed, forwarded to Amazon |
| Wholesale share | Case-packed carton and pallet orders shipped to your B2B customers |
| Reserve | Balance racked, billed by space used, ready for either channel |
| Customs boundary | Your forwarder clears; we receive after — we're not the importer of record |
Floor-loaded or palletized, 20 through 53 feet, unloaded and checked in the day it arrives — full process on our container receiving page.
Multi-SKU cartons opened and sorted into true per-SKU counts, reconciled against the packing list with every gap documented.
FNSKU over the factory barcode, scan-verified; bagging, bubble and expiration labels where the category calls for them; compliant case packs out the door.
Your customers' POs picked, case-packed to their quantities, labeled to their receiving rules, palletized and handed to your carrier.
Bin and pallet reserve billed monthly by space actually occupied — the footprint grows on container week and shrinks as channels drain it.
Factory barcode conflicts, wrong-language packaging, market-specific stickering — corrected at the bench, as covered on our relabeling page.
PO and packing list on file, delivery scheduled — your forwarder clears customs, we take it from the chassis.
Cartons off, mixed boxes sorted, SKU counts confirmed against paper — damage photographed for the claim file.
You set the FBA/wholesale/reserve split from the reconciled count — and adjust it later, because nothing commits until picked.
FBA shipments go out on the 24–48h clock, wholesale POs ship as they land, reserve waits without a lease attached.
Every mile after the port is margin leaking. Our dock is roughly 25 minutes from PortMiami and 12 from Amazon MIA1 — the drayage gets shorter and the prep happens where the box lands.
Factory markings are a rumor. We open, sort and count to SKU level, and hand you a reconciled inventory with photos of every discrepancy — the number you can actually sell against.
Because allocation happened at origin. Held as one pool, the load feeds whichever channel is paying best this month — the split is a pick-time decision made on current orders.
Fixed rent for seasonal freight is upside-down math. Space-used billing means the storage line on your invoice follows your container calendar instead of your lease terms.
Yes — that split is the center of our importer work. The container devans at our Medley dock, everything is counted to SKU level, and the load divides by your allocation: one share prepped and labeled for Amazon FBA, one share case-packed for your wholesale accounts, the balance racked as reserve. One intake, three destinations, and the allocation is your call — changeable after you've seen the counts.
Carton by carton against your packing list. Mixed loads — several SKUs per carton, or cartons whose markings don't match contents — get opened, sorted and counted so the result is a true SKU-level inventory, not a guess based on what the factory claimed. Discrepancies and damage are photographed as they surface, and you get the reconciled count before any allocation decision has to be made.
Yes. Wholesale orders pick from the same racks that feed your FBA channel: we case-pack to the quantities on your order, label cartons the way your customer requires, palletize where the order size calls for it, and hand off to your carrier or freight broker. Your importing and your distributing stop needing separate buildings — the split happens at the pick, not at the address.
No — and an importer should be clear-eyed about that boundary. We are not the importer of record and don't provide customs brokerage; your freight forwarder or broker clears the goods, and we recommend negotiating DDP terms with suppliers so duties are settled before delivery. Our job starts when the cleared container reaches our dock, about 25 minutes from PortMiami.
Like any FBA-bound inventory, but at container scale: FNSKU labels applied over factory barcodes with scan verification, poly bagging or bubble where the category requires it, expiration-date labeling on dated goods, then case packing with box-content data. Since Amazon stopped offering its own prep and labeling in the US in January 2026, the units must arrive compliant — they leave here that way, typically within 24–48 hours of the allocation call.
The devanning count is your evidence engine. Crushed cartons, wet goods and quantity gaps get photographed and logged against the packing list the day they're found, producing a documented claim file for your supplier or freight insurer. For a distributor, that discipline also protects downstream promises — you learn the real fillable quantity before committing units to wholesale customers or Amazon.
Yes — that flexibility is the reason to split after counting rather than at origin. Stock sits as one pool until it's picked, so if a wholesale customer doubles their order or an Amazon listing takes off, the next outbound simply draws differently. Nothing is locked to a channel until it physically leaves the rack, which is exactly how an importer's opportunistic side works best.
Yes — 20ft through 53ft full containers, LCL consolidations arriving on shared trucks, and air freight clearing at MIA about 10 minutes away. Many importers run a mix: sea for the volume base, air for the restock that can't wait. Each arrival checks in against its own PO, and everything lands in the same SKU-level inventory regardless of how it traveled.
By space actually used, billed monthly — bins for smaller SKUs, pallet positions for bulk — with no commitment to a fixed footprint. When a container lands your footprint expands; as FBA absorbs stock and wholesale orders ship, it shrinks, and so does the bill. For a seasonal importer, that beats leasing a warehouse sized to the biggest month of the year.
Send the form with your container frequency, typical SKU count per load, how mixed the cartons come, and the rough FBA-versus-wholesale ratio. You'll get per-unit and per-service pricing — devanning, SKU breakdown, FBA prep, B2B carton shipping, storage — within one business day. No setup fees, no minimums, so the quiet months between containers cost you nothing.
Tell us the container size and frequency, roughly how many SKUs ride in each load, how mixed the cartons arrive, and where the units go — Amazon, wholesale accounts, or both. Rates for every service in the chain come back within one business day.
