Customized Brokers in Miami is the customs brokerage and consulting division of Crowley Maritime Corp., which is headquartered in Jacksonville, FL.

Charlie Dominguez, a senior sales consultant for Crowley’s liner and logistics team, said the company is exhibiting at the annual Produce Marketing Association Foodservice Conference & Expo in Monterey, CA, July 26-28, at booth number 3749.

“Several representatives from Crowley will be attending the conference,” said Dominguez. “Steven Collar, senior vice president and general manager of Latin American Services, Nelly Yunta, vice president of sales, marketing and customer care, and Peter Noyer, vice president of national accounts. Other members of our staff who will be in attendance are Janet Ramos, director of national accounts, cold chain logistics, Eduardo Campos, director of logistics for Crowley Fresh, Christy Blanco Frias, senior account executive, refrigerated sales, and Thomas Grant, director of national accounts.”

Dominguez joined Crowley in 1983 as director of marketing and sales in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Over the past 30 years, he has been promoted to positions of increasing responsibility within the company’s sales organizations.

He explained that at the PMA Foodservice Expo, Crowley would be promoting its cold-chain logistics solutions, including domestic trucking, specialized U.S. customs brokerage services, CrowleyFresh cold facility services, consolidation and distribution services, as well as ocean liner services to and from Central America, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.

“We will be showcasing our newly opened 40,000-square-foot cold storage and handling facility, CrowleyFresh, in Miami, which opened earlier this year,” said Dominguez.”

He added that Crowley provides complete transportation and logistics services to the foodservice industry, which represents roughly 40 percent of the company’s overall revenue.

“We serve the largest food retailers in America, delivering fresh fruit and vegetable imports, providing a secure cold chain, traceability and a one-source farm-to-store logistical solution,” said Dominguez. “We ship food items, both refrigerated and dry, across the country and to and from countries in Central America, Panama, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Leeward and Windward islands of the Caribbean. And we provide U.S. customs clearance and storage as well as distribution for products imported from origins around the world.”

He noted that despite the poor economy of the past few years neither Crowley Maritime nor Customized Brokers have experienced a decline in business, adding, “Our volumes have remained constant with a slight growth of imports.”