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About

Built around responsibility.

CFL Worldwide is a boutique international logistics company focused on moving high-value technology and regulated equipment across international borders.

The company combines specialist freight forwarding with customs, trade compliance, export-control diligence and IOR/EOR where required. The principle behind the operation is straightforward: get the border requirements right before the freight moves.

A freight hall seen from a mezzanine: crates and pallets across the floor, a row of forklifts, and a netted pallet on a dolly behind a tractor.
Freight hall · Mar 2025Crates, forklifts and a netted pallet on its dolly, seen from the mezzanine.

Our Organisation

CFL Worldwide is a boutique international logistics company specialising in the cross-border movement of high-value technology and regulated equipment. The company supports customers moving GPU infrastructure, servers, networking equipment, medical technology and specialist industrial hardware between international markets.

Established in 2020, CFL Worldwide was founded by logistics professionals who brought experience from different parts of the industry. Today, that experience is applied through a focused operating model built around technology logistics, trade compliance and cross-border execution.

Two people in hi-vis vests unloading bubble-wrapped equipment from a box truck's tail lift onto a hand trolley.
Unloading · Apr 2024Bubble-wrapped equipment coming off the tail lift and onto a trolley.

Our Approach

01LOGISTICS FIRST

CFL Worldwide is, at its core, a logistics company.

The company physically moves equipment through international freight forwarding and supports the operational work surrounding that movement. For technology infrastructure, this can extend from de-installation, de-racking and internal handling through staging, packing, international transport, customs clearance and delivery.

Customs and compliance are not separate from that movement. They determine whether the freight can cross the border as planned.

That is why CFL addresses the shipment structure before transport begins.

02COMPLIANCE BUILT INTO THE MOVEMENT

A shipment can be physically ready while the border requirements are not.

The importer may still be unclear. Product information may be incomplete. Export-control questions may remain unresolved. Customs classification, valuation or documentation may still require review.

CFL brings these requirements into the logistics process before the cargo is released.

Where customers already have suitable importing and exporting entities, CFL works with those structures. Where they do not, IOR/EOR can be incorporated where required and where the transaction permits it.

The objective is not to add another layer of process.

It is to prevent the border from becoming the place where unresolved questions are first discovered.

Direct Access. Clear Ownership.

CFL Worldwide operates through a boutique service model.

Customers work directly with experienced logistics and compliance specialists rather than through multiple layers of account management and operational handovers.

Short communication lines mean the people responsible for the movement remain close to the shipment, the documentation and the customer.

For high-value and time-critical equipment, this operating model provides something simple but important:

clear ownership of the shipment from planning through execution.

Built for High-Value Technology

The infrastructure behind AI, cloud, telecommunications, healthcare and modern industry is physical.

GPU systems, servers, storage and networking equipment still have to move between manufacturers, warehouses, customers and facilities across different jurisdictions.

The same applies to medical systems, maritime equipment, industrial technology and telecom hardware.

As the equipment becomes more valuable and international deployment becomes more complex, logistics increasingly depends on getting the commercial, customs and compliance information aligned before departure.

CFL Worldwide operates at that point between physical movement and border execution.

The company does not design the technology, operate the infrastructure or replace specialist legal advisers.

Its responsibility is the international movement of the hardware and the cross-border requirements surrounding that movement.

Rack servers stacked two wide on a black plastic pallet, a cardboard sheet between each layer, with a person in a hi-vis shirt standing beside them.
Servers, palletisedRack servers stacked two wide on a plastic pallet, a cardboard sheet between each layer.

The CFL Principle

Get the border requirements right before the freight moves.

For CFL Worldwide, international logistics starts before collection.

It starts with understanding what is moving, who is involved, what the border requires and whether the shipment is ready to move under the proposed structure.

Once that is clear, the freight can follow.

Vision and mission

Alexandra Sakhipova, COO of CFL Worldwide.

01Vision

By reducing the complexity of cross-border AI infrastructure deployment, we enable organizations to deploy critical technology globally with confidence.

Alexandra SakhipovaCOO
Mihai Marinescu, CEO of CFL Worldwide.

02Mission

We reduce the regulatory, commercial and operational risks of global AI infrastructure deployment through trade compliance, IOR/EOR and international freight forwarding.

Mihai MarinescuCEO

What we do

IOR/EOR, trade compliance, customs coordination and specialist freight forwarding are coordinated under one partner, reducing the number of interfaces the customer needs to manage.

Where CFL fits

CFL's responsibility is deliberately specific.

Our responsibility

Our responsibility is the cross-border layer surrounding the physical equipment:

  • Can it move?
  • Who imports it?
  • Who exports it?
  • What customs and trade-compliance requirements apply?
  • What documentation supports the transaction?
  • What duties and import VAT should be expected?
  • How should the freight be executed?
  • How does the equipment reach the agreed destination?

Outside it

  • We do not design data centres.
  • We do not advise on power, cooling or network architecture.
  • We do not negotiate property leases.
  • We do not provide cybersecurity or privacy advice.
  • We do not manage clinical trials or medical treatment.
  • We do not replace legal counsel where a transaction requires a formal legal opinion.

CFL coordinates the cross-border movement through to the nominated receiving point while installation and commissioning remain with the customer, OEM or system integrator.

That narrow focus is deliberate. Authority comes from knowing where your responsibility starts – and where it stops.

Two people in hi-vis vests pushing a trolley stacked with servers down a white data-centre corridor.
Delivery · Apr 2026Servers on a trolley, wheeled down a data-centre corridor to the receiving point.

Photographed on the job

Taken by the team while the work was under way, then cropped and graded to the page; none of them is stock.

Rows of stretch-wrapped cartons on pallets filling a warehouse in front of a closed roller door.
Staged · Mar 2024Cartons stretch-wrapped on their pallets, filling the floor inside a roller door.
A box truck reversed against a warehouse loading bay, pallets stacked inside the building.
Loading bay · Mar 2024A box truck reversed onto the loading bay, empty pallets stacked inside.
A row of pallets wrapped in black stretch film on a warehouse floor.
Wrapped · Jun 2023Pallets wrapped in black film, lined up down the aisle.

Credentials

Credentials matter. But credentials should support capability rather than replace it.

IATA Accredited Cargo AgentCFL operates within the international air-cargo industry as an accredited cargo agent, reflecting freight forwarding as a core capability rather than an outsourced addition to the IOR service.
Dangerous Goods ExpertiseCFL supports regulated cargo movements where Dangerous Goods knowledge is relevant to the transport operation.
Partner of the Dutch Data Center AssociationOur connection to the Dutch data-centre ecosystem supports our focus on the cross-border movement of cloud, AI and mission-critical infrastructure.
evofenedexMember
NDLMember
KLM CargoCarrier partner

Where we have worked

A selection of the places CFL has worked.

  • Amsterdam
  • Frankfurt
  • London
  • Marseille
  • Iceland
  • South Korea
  • Abu Dhabi
  • Australia
  • Japan
  • Hong Kong
Case study · Delivered 12 November 2025

Urgent Data Centre Hardware Relocation (Japan to Hong Kong) →

Head office

The office building at Capronilaan in Schiphol Rijk: a glass stair tower between a dark loading wing, with a truck at its dock, and a white four-storey block.
Capronilaan 20 · Schiphol RijkThe building from the street, a truck at the dock under its left wing.
The ground-floor hall: a wall of wooden slats, pendant lamps, and the tenant board listing CF Logistics on the third floor.
Entrance hallThe ground floor, with CF Logistics on the tenant board, third floor.
AddressAmsterdam Schiphol Airport, Capronilaan 20, 1119NR Schiphol Rijk, The Netherlands
OfficesEurope and the USA
Emailsales@cflworldwide.com
Webcflworldwide.com

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