Liberty Shipping

What Liberty Shipping does

Liberty Shipping (also referenced in legal and website text as "IbertyShipping") is a privately held freight forwarding and logistics company headquartered in Kolkata, India. Founded in 1972, the firm operates with a workforce of 101–250 employees and provides international and domestic shipping services to businesses of all sizes. The company presents itself as serving a horizontal global business segment — any company requiring cross-border or domestic cargo movement, supply chain management, or warehousing — rather than targeting a defined vertical.

The company's offering comprises four integrated core services. Ocean Freight covers full container load (FCL) and less than container load (LCL) sea cargo; Air Freight provides time-sensitive international air shipping; Road Transport links ports and warehouses via trucking and inland haulage; and Warehousing provides storage with inventory management. The website makes a generic claim of a "trusted global network" but discloses no underlying carrier partnerships, agent network, owned asset base, technology platform, proprietary routing or tracking systems, or any third-party logistics platform integrations. No patents, trademarks, certifications, or compliance accreditations are disclosed.

The business model is transaction-fee based, with revenue generated per cargo movement and per storage contract. Pricing is not publicly disclosed; customers are quoted on request via email ([email protected]) or phone. Go-to-market is sales-led and direct: the website contains no marketing automation, content, or partner channels — only a contact prompt. No funding rounds, institutional investors, parent company, management team, or financial disclosures appear in the available material, leaving ownership, capitalization, and revenue entirely undocumented.

Name

Liberty Shipping

Legal name

IbertyShipping

Website

https://libertyshipping.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1972

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Liberty Shipping is a private Indian logistics company headquartered in Kolkata that provides ocean freight (FCL/LCL), air freight, road transport, and warehousing services to businesses of all sizes through a direct, sales-led B2B model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Logistics Services

NAICS

Support Activities for Water Transportation (4883), Deep Sea Freight Transportation (483111), Air Transportation (481)

SIC

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

akta.pro primary industry

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

akta.pro secondary industries

Ocean Import Forwarding (Destination Handling/DO/ISF) (TLACABAE), LCL (Less-than-Container Load) Consolidation/Deconsolidation (TLACABAB), General Cargo Air Freight Forwarding (Airport-to-Airport / Door-to-Door) (TLACAAAA)

Keywords

• Ocean freight forwarding
• Air freight services
• Road transport logistics
• Warehousing and storage
• Multimodal freight

Headquarters

HQ city

Kolkata

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Logistics and Freight Services: Revenue generated through freight and logistics services including ocean freight (FCL/LCL), air freight, road transport, and warehousing. Service-based model with transaction fees for cargo movement and storage services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Liberty Shipping is a freight forwarding and logistics company that arranges and manages the movement of cargo across multiple transport modes. Its core offerings include ocean freight (full container load and less than container load), air freight, road transport, and warehousing services for business clients requiring end-to-end supply chain movement.

Product overview

Liberty Shipping operates as a logistics solutions provider offering four integrated core services: Ocean Freight (FCL and LCL sea cargo), Air Freight (international air shipping), Road Transport (trucking and inland transport), and Warehousing (storage with inventory management). Together, these services enable the company to deliver end-to-end shipping and supply chain management for businesses of all sizes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Ocean Freight (FCL/LCL) Container-based ocean shipping service offered in full container load (FCL) and less than container load (LCL) formats, provided for business clients moving cargo internationally.
• Air Freight Time-sensitive air cargo transportation service for business clients requiring expedited international or domestic shipment of goods.
• Road Transport Trucking and road haulage service for moving cargo overland, supporting first-mile and last-mile delivery needs of business shippers.
• Warehousing Storage and inventory holding service for business clients requiring temporary or longer-term warehousing of goods as part of their supply chain.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Direct peers

• DSV: Danish-headquartered global forwarder with strong ocean, air, road, and contract logistics services. Comparable to Liberty Shipping across the full forwarding service spectrum and NVOCC-style operations.
• Expeditors International: Asset-light global freight forwarder focused on ocean and air forwarding with customs brokerage. Closely matches Liberty Shipping's transaction-fee, multimodal forwarding model without vessel or airline ownership.
• Hellmann Worldwide Logistics: Germany-based global freight forwarder offering ocean, air, road, and contract logistics with customs capabilities. Direct peer on multimodal forwarding and customs services to mid-sized and enterprise shippers.
• DB Schenker: Global logistics provider offering ocean, air, road forwarding and contract logistics, owned by Deutsche Bahn. Comparable multimodal forwarding, customs, and warehousing portfolio overlapping with Liberty Shipping's service mix.
• CEVA Logistics: Global logistics provider offering ocean, air, road, warehousing, and contract logistics under CMA CGM ownership. Comparable to Liberty Shipping in asset-light/multimodal forwarding offerings and global shipper focus.
• Allcargo Logistics: Indian-headquartered multimodal logistics and freight forwarding group operating ocean, air, and inland transport with NVOCC and warehousing capabilities. Most geographically and operationally comparable peer to Liberty Shipping, with similar service breadth and Indian operations base.
• DHL Global Forwarding: Global freight forwarder within Deutsche Post DHL Group operating ocean and air freight forwarding plus customs and supply chain services. Comparable to Liberty Shipping as a multimodal, customs-capable forwarder serving international shippers.
• Kuehne+Nagel: One of the world's largest freight forwarders with deep ocean, air, road, and contract logistics offerings and a strong NVOCC presence. Directly comparable to Liberty Shipping in offering multimodal international freight forwarding to global shippers.

Broad incumbents

• Maersk Logistics & Services: Logistics arm of Maersk, the world's largest ocean carrier, offering end-to-end ocean, inland, and supply chain management. Comparable service taxonomy but with substantially greater scale and a parent ocean carrier.
• CMA CGM Logistics: Logistics arm of CMA CGM combining ocean shipping with freight forwarding, inland, and contract logistics services. Comparable multimodal offering anchored by a parent ocean carrier, giving it broader scope than Liberty Shipping.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/liberty-shipping-worldwide

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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