When it comes to talk of “shipping” and “logistics” these days, what is likely to come to mind are the massive containerized vessels traveling the arteries of global trade and the mechanized seaports where they come ashore. But what of the smaller freighters, the lower density routes, and the shallow water ports that intersect with these more visible networks of international commerce? In this talk, I explore the history of Haitian-owned freighters that have been trading between Haiti's provincial ports and the Miami River since the 1970s, how this shipping economy became racialized in ways that marked it and the river with a “threatening” Haitian blackness, and how local government agencies, real estate developers, and law enforcement officials worked to remake the aesthetics of the river as something other than Haitian and Black. This history raises a host of questions about the dynamics of policing, racialization, and logistics at work in the maritime borderlands of the present.