National Shipping Of America, LLC

National Shipping Of America, LLC, a minority-owned for-profit limited liability company based in San Francisco, California, operates as a prime contractor providing ocean transportation, intermodal cargo distribution, and consolidated logistics services to the Department of Defense on full-and-open delivery orders with no set-aside designations. The vendor holds two major indefinite delivery vehicles with Air Mobility Command and United States Transportation Command, through which it coordinates decentralized shipping across global military installations and contingency operations.

National Shipping Of America's customer base concentrates heavily within defense logistics. The Department of the Army Materiel Command Surface Deployment and Distribution Command accounts for 65 awards ($205.7 million combined potential value) representing 98 percent of activity by count, while the Department of the Air Force anchors dollar value through two vehicles: the Universal Services Contract-10 (USC-10), a $4 billion multiple-award IDIQ effective through August 31, 2026, and the Voluntary Intermodal Sealift Agreement (VISA) Contingency Services contract, a zero-ceiling indefinite delivery vehicle awarded October 1, 2024, running through September 30, 2034 with one five-year option and a six-month extension available. The Department of the Air Force Air Mobility Command has issued 13 awards ($10.9 million combined potential value) under these vehicles. Recent representative delivery orders include a $1.3 million consolidated transportation shipment for Haiti performance (May 2025, Air Force), an $853 thousand order for decentralized shipments (February 2026, Air Force), and an $830 thousand order to Carolina, Puerto Rico (December 2022, Army Surface Deployment and Distribution Command). The Office of the Secretary of Defense and the U.S. Agency for International Development Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance each hold smaller positions.

The vendor places task orders against five parent vehicles. The Ocean and Intermodal Cargo Transport 2019 IDIQ carries 37 task orders ($3.4 million combined potential value); the USTRANSCOM Universal Service Contract-8 carries 32 task orders ($7.1 million combined potential value); the USC-10 carries 8 task orders ($4.8 million combined potential value); USTRANSCOM Sealift Cargo Transportation 2011-2014 carries 10 orders ($642 thousand combined potential value); and a legacy 2010-2014 CONUS Intermodal Ocean Liner Services contract carries one order. Work is performed at distribution hubs in Mobile, Alabama and Carolina, Puerto Rico, as well as international locations globally, with fixed-price contracts featuring economic price adjustment provisions. The 97-award portfolio is classified entirely under NAICS 488110 (Deep Sea Freight Transportation) with 95 awards tagged to PSC J Code for vessel freight transportation. Activity remains steady across recent years (six awards in 2023, nine in 2024, six in 2025), with combined potential value across all awards totaling $4.22 billion, though actual obligated dollars remain modest at $16.5 million.