American retailing giant Walmart is getting more into container shipping, offering its Marketplace sellers the chance to use the company’s cross-border ocean shipping solution to transport China-made goods to its US fulfillment center network.
Walmart’s Cross Border service is a port-to-door, full container load freight service from China to the US, according to the Walmart Marketplace website. The Chinese ports involved are Yantian, Shanghai and Ningbo.
In 2022, Walmart created a subsidiary registered with the Federal Maritime Commission as a non-vessel operating common carrier and freight forwarder.
Walmart was among a host of big retailers to take shipping matters into its own hands during the upheavals of the covid pandemic, chartering a number of ships and using Walmart-branded 53 ft containers.