Mississippi Freight Broker Bond$75,000 BMC-84 — No Separate State Bond

Poultry-Reefer or Canton JIT — Mississippi Brokers Build One of Two Different Books

Poultry has ranked as Mississippi's top agricultural commodity for 31 straight years, posting an estimated $3.73 billion in 2025 production value with broilers accounting for about $3.38 billion of that — the state produced an estimated 752 million broilers in 2025 and ranked 6th nationally in broiler production. Most of that volume moves as temperature-controlled freight, which puts spoilage and temp-excursion claims risk on a reefer-heavy broker's book that a dry-van broker never sees. North of Jackson, Nissan's Canton Assembly Plant runs an entirely different freight economy: a 1.5-million-square-foot supplier logistics center that opened in 2014 feeds hundreds of daily just-in-time truckloads to the plant, where a missed delivery window can stop an assembly line rather than just delay a shipment. Same bond, same federal statute — two very different sets of carrier-vetting priorities.

Port of Gulfport Adds Drayage to a Broker's Book — Not a Second Bond

Mississippi's largest commercial seaport handles containerized consumer goods, frozen poultry exports, forest products, and project cargo across a 300-acre deep-water port and a 116-acre inland facility, according to the Mississippi Port Authority. Gulfport sits roughly 10 minutes from I-10 with direct access to Highway 49, and the Port markets that positioning as reaching 75% of the U.S. population within a 24-hour truck run — a genuinely different value proposition than Jackson's interstate crossroads, since it's built around container dwell time rather than dry-van lane density. A broker moving cargo off the Gulfport docks needs the same $75,000 BMC-84 as any other Mississippi broker — there's no port-specific bond or license — but the carrier network looks different: chassis availability, container appointment windows, and drayage scheduling matter in a way they don't for a broker who never touches a terminal.

Source: Mississippi Port Authority (shipmspa.com); frozen poultry export handling confirmed by Port Authority cargo profile.

Mississippi BMC-84 Cost: Credit Sets the Rate, Not the Freight Type

Whether your book is poultry-reefer, Canton JIT, or Gulfport drayage, the $75,000 BMC-84 is priced identically off personal credit. You never pay the full $75,000 — only the annual premium. See our freight broker bond cost by state guide and surety bond cost overview for broader context.

Filing With the FMCSA — and the One Filing That Isn't the PSC Certificate

Because Mississippi has no separate broker license track, the entire authority process runs through the FMCSA. The single Mississippi-administered filing that does apply to brokers is the Unified Carrier Registration (UCR), required under 49 U.S.C. § 14504a. Mississippi is one of 41 participating UCR states, so a Mississippi-based broker registers with Mississippi as their base state.

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