Pacific Sea Star Shipping Agency

What Pacific Sea Star Shipping Agency does

Pacific Sea Star Shipping Agency is a Tehran-headquartered, privately held shipping agency and freight forwarder founded in 2010 that provides end-to-end logistics services for international trade to and from Iran. The company operates as an asset-light intermediary, reselling capacity through contracts with major shipping lines and bundling it with customs clearance, inland trucking, air cargo, rail transport, car transport, LCL consolidation, and cross-stuffing services. Its core products — Sea Shipping, Air Transportation, Inland Transportation, Customs Clearance, LCL Services, Rail Transportation, Car Transport, and Cross Stuffing — are coordinated manually across a network of six physical offices (Tehran headquarters, London regional HQ, and four branch offices in Bandar Abbas, Bandarlengeh, Khorramshahr, and Bushehr) covering Iran's principal southern ports.

The company's business model is transaction-fee based: revenue is generated through shipping agency commissions, freight forwarding fees, and service charges for customs handling, with quote-based pricing customized to cargo type, route, and volume. It serves a horizontal B2B customer base of import/export businesses and third-party freight forwarders via direct sales relationships, with no proprietary software platform, no digital booking system, and no disclosed technology stack beyond a corporate website and social media channels (Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram). The company claims coverage of 3,400+ ports globally, 260,000+ customers, and 320,000+ TEUs transported, though these figures are not time-bound and may represent cumulative rather than annual throughput.

The firm reports 101-250 employees, no disclosed funding, no parent company, no acquisitions, and no management team information in public sources. It has no patents, certifications, or stated AI capabilities. Its competitive positioning relies on established shipping-line relationships, port-side office density in Iran, and the London office for international coordination. Operations are subject to the regulatory and sanctions complexity inherent to Iran-domiciled shipping businesses, which materially constrains its addressable customer base and banking relationships.

Name

Pacific Sea Star Shipping Agency

Legal name

Pacific Sea Star Shipping Agency

Website

https://pss-ir.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Pacific Sea Star Shipping Agency is a Tehran-based, privately held shipping agency and freight forwarder founded in 2010 that provides sea, air, rail, and land logistics, customs clearance, LCL, and cross-stuffing services to import/export businesses trading with Iran, operating from offices in Tehran, London, and four Iranian port cities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Shipping Agency & Freight Forwarding

NAICS

Deep Sea, Coastal, and Great Lakes Water Transportation (48311), Water Transportation (483), Support Activities for Water Transportation (4883)

SIC

Arrangement Of Transportation Of Freight & Cargo (4731), Deep Sea Foreign Transportation Of Freight (4412)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYTLADAMAF

Ocean Freight Brokerage (FCL/LCL)

Transportation & Logistics/Freight Transportation (Air, Maritime, Rail, Trucking)/Freight Brokerage Services

SECONDARYTLACABAF

Ocean Export Forwarding (Booking/VGM/SI/BL)

Transportation & Logistics/Freight Forwarding & Customs Brokerage/Ocean Freight Forwarding (FCL/LCL)

SECONDARYTLACABAE

Ocean Import Forwarding (Destination Handling/DO/ISF)

Transportation & Logistics/Freight Forwarding & Customs Brokerage/Ocean Freight Forwarding (FCL/LCL)

SECONDARYTLACABAG

Customs Brokerage for Ocean Shipments (Import/Export Clearance)

Transportation & Logistics/Freight Forwarding & Customs Brokerage/Ocean Freight Forwarding (FCL/LCL)

Keywords

• Shipping agency services
• Freight forwarding
• Customs clearance
• Cargo consolidation
• Multimodal logistics

Headquarters

HQ city

Tehran

HQ country

Iran

HQ region

Middle East

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Shipping Agency Services: Revenue generated through shipping agency fees, freight forwarding commissions, and service charges for cargo handling across sea, air, rail, and road transportation modes. Services include customs clearance, LCL consolidation, and cross-stuffing operations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Pacific Sea Star Shipping Agency is a private-sector shipping agency that arranges international freight movement to and from Iran across sea, air, rail, and road transportation modes. The company leverages contracts with major shipping lines to deliver sea freight, air cargo, inland trucking, rail transportation, car transport, LCL consolidation, cross stuffing, and customs clearance services. It operates from offices in Iran and the UK to coordinate global trade flows for import/export businesses.

Product overview

Pacific Sea Star Shipping Agency operates as a logistics and shipping services company offering a comprehensive suite of transportation and customs services. The core portfolio includes Sea Shipping, Air Transportation, InLand Transportation (trucking), Customs Clearance, Rail Transportation, Car Transport, LCL Services, and Cross Stuffing. Additional offerings include road construction equipment parts import. The company functions as a traditional shipping agency without a unified software platform, providing human-operated logistics services for cargo movement between Iran and global destinations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Sea Shipping

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• All Shipping Lines (Unnamed)coreOthersPacific Sea Star maintains good relationships and contracts with all major shipping lines, enabling the company to provide competitive pricing and comprehensive shipping services to customers. These partnerships form the core operational foundation of the agency's service delivery.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Broad incumbents

• Flexport: Global digital freight forwarder offering ocean, air, and customs services; comparable as a multi-modal forwarder but typically serves large enterprise shippers rather than Iran-domiciled trade.
• Agility Logistics: Middle East-headquartered global forwarder with strong MENA presence and multi-modal services including customs; comparable multi-modal forwarder with regional depth.
• Kuehne+Nagel: One of the world's largest freight forwarders with ocean, air, road, and customs capabilities; similar end-to-end service portfolio but operating at global scale across unsanctioned corridors.
• DSV: Large global freight forwarder with road, air, sea, and project capabilities; comparable multi-modal forwarder with customs offerings across many geographies.
• Hellmann Worldwide Logistics: Family-owned global forwarder with air, sea, road, rail, and customs services; comparable end-to-end mid-sized forwarder profile.
• Expeditors International: Global logistics provider with strong ocean freight forwarding and customs brokerage focus; a direct functional analog for PSS's bundled service model in non-sanctioned markets.
• CEVA Logistics (CMA CGM): Global 3PL owned by CMA CGM providing ocean freight forwarding, inland transport, and customs services; directly comparable integrated ocean-forwarding model.

Regional players

• Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL): State-owned Iranian ocean carrier and logistics group; while a carrier rather than a pure forwarder, IRISL operates complementary agency/forwarding services inside Iran and is the most relevant domestic peer for PSS.
• Hammar International Co. Iranian freight forwarder and shipping agency offering sea, air, and land transport to/from Iran; directly comparable regional peer operating in the same Iran-centric corridor.

Others

• DHL Global Forwarding: Division of Deutsche Post DHL offering ocean, air freight, customs clearance, and supply chain services; closest large-scale analog to PSS's bundled sea + air + clearance stack.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/pacificseastar?igsh=cW0wY2lrcDVuZDV3
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/pss-ir

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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