Global Freight Forwarder Company Part 2

     

13. Agility has expanded its business dramatically from its warehousing base in Kuwait. It is a Middle Eastern leader in integrated supply chain solutions and is organized into three major business groups. Global Integrated Logistics (GIL) is the largest generating approximately 65% of Agility’s revenues and having more than 14,000 employees. The majority of GIL’s revenues (just under 90%) are generated outside of the U.S. It has core competencies in freight forwarding, contract logistics/warehousing, project logistics, fairs & events, and supply chain management 3PL services. The Defense & Government Services (DGS) business group generated approximately 32% of Agility’s revenues and had a workforce of over 10,000 before 2010. It provides 3PL services tailored to governments, relief agencies and international institutions worldwide. These services include extensive warehousing and trucking operations in Kuwait to support U.S. Department of Defense distribution needs in the region. Another business unit is Investments which draws on local insights from Agility’s global network to identify real estate and private equity opportunities in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Investments accounts for approximately 3% of Agility’s revenues. Hans Hickler, previous employed at APL and DHL, is now CEO of Asia and is expanding operations particularly in Southeast Asia and Vietnam.

     

 14. Hellmann Worldwide Logistics is a privately held German company which continues to be competitive against the big guys. It has good freight forwarding and contract logistics operations. Airfreight and Seafreight are over half of the business. Coverage in Asia and China is extensive. Its regional breakdown is Europe 53% (Germany 43%), Asia, 19%, the Americas 18% (U.S. 12%), and Oceania, Middle East, Africa 10  %.

    

   

15.  Pantos Logistics has a full set of tools including air and ocean freight forwarding, rail and road transportation in Korea, warehousing, customs, and express transportation. (DCC assets in South Korea only.) Customers include Korean based companies like LG and internationals like Philips. Pantos is a good international supply chain manager with a large freight forwarding base (1.6 million TEUs and 216,653 airfreight metric tons).

     

16. UTi's net revenues increased nearly 10% last year. UTi’s contract logistics and distribution operations are 54% of net revenues. UTi has strong forwarding operations in Asia with an emphasis on airfreight and a major drug distribution operation in South Africa. It is expanding its contract logistics operations in Asia particularly in India, which it has designated for major market expansion. UTi’s roots are in South Africa and it does very well in British Commonwealth countries.

     

17.      Toll’s revenues are 66% Australia based where Toll has one of everything in logistics. Toll’s mission is to be the most successful provider of integrated solutions to the Asian region providing customers with global reach. Its largest vertical industry is Retail/FMCG, which accounts for 33% of its revenues. Sixty percent of SembCorp was acquired in 2006 by Toll which owns Australia’s largest trucking and distribution operations. SembCorp is one of the largest logistics providers in Asia. SembCorp has extensive Asian operations (16 countries) and a sizeable joint venture (St. Anda) in China. Its revenues are split as follows: Northern Asia 53%, Southeast Asia 41% and Other 6%. In March 2008, Toll took over BALtrans, a large intra-Asian freight forwarder with operations to the United States and Europe. Toll has rebranded BALtrans as Toll Global Forwarding. In February 2010, Toll acquired Summit Logistics International to integrate it into Toll Global Forwarding and expand its capabilities in the Greater China to U.S. trade lane.

     

18. Damco is a third-party logistics provider specializing in customized freight forwarding and supply chain solutions. The company has 10,800 employees in over 300 offices across 90 countries and agents in 30 more countries. In 2011, the company had a net turnover of $2.8 billion, managed more than 2.5 million TEUs in ocean freight and supply chain management volumes, and air freighted more than 110,000 metric tons. Damco is part of the A.P. Moller - Maersk Group.

       

19.  Yusen does not have the kind of strong domestic base in Japan that characterizes Nippon and others. It has aggressively grown international markets and expanded through organic growth and acquisitions. It started in 2001 by combining purchases and adding a transportation and warehouse network to expanding contract logistics and airfreight operations. Contract logistics and distribution are strong in Europe. In the Americas, seven companies have been combined to create a broad suite of logistics services offered in North, Central and South America. Automotive, industrial and retail/consumer goods verticals are emphasized. Its automotive logistics includes roll-on/roll-off, JIT and parts distribution. Nippon Cargo Air is now an NYK owned entity and Americas has its own airfreight forwarding capability. Sister company, Yusen Air & Sea, is a major airfreight operation, particularly within Asia and recently set up a strategic agreement with Panalpina. Japan accounts for 27% of the business, Europe 24%, the Americas 22%, South Asia and Oceania 14% and East Asia 13%. Revenues for Yusen are split between air and ocean freight forwarding, warehousing, and domestic U.S. transportation management.

     

   

 20.   Geodis is France's largest provider of transportation and logistics services and is one of the top European 3PLs. With third-party logistics revenues of $5.9 billion and 12,000 employees, Geodis Group covers more than 120 countries worldwide through its subsidiaries including Geodis Logistics, Geodis Wilson, and Geodis Supply Chain Optimisation (which grew out of its December 2008 acquisition of IBM’s internal global logistics operations). Most of the Group’s revenue is European based and accounts for 60% of total revenue, Asia-Pacific accounts for 20% and the Americas account for the rest. Geodis Group’s service portfolio has significant coverage in Europe where it has five core businesses: groupage (parcel delivery/LTL express), truckload, contract logistics, freight forwarding and supply chain optimization. Freight forwarding is its largest business segment generating 36% of revenue, groupage is next at 25%, then contract logistics 15%, supply chain optimization 13% and truckload 11%. In Europe, Geodis’ industry segment 3PL revenue breakdown is FMCG/Retail 42%, Automotive 17%, High-Tech 16%, Industrial 11%, Healthcare 4%, Textiles 3% and Other 7%. Geodis purchased TNT’s freight forwarder (Wilson) in late 2006. Wilson added significant new coverage for Germany, China, Australia, New Zealand, North America and South America. Geodis is expanding its penetration in the North American market through acquisitions including IBM and One Source Logistics. There are 18 offices including two for its chemicals specialist operation, Rohde & Liesenfeld. It relies on a strategic alliance with International Paper’s xpedx.

     

     

21.  C.H. Robinson continues to be the most profitable tier-one 3PL regularly achieving net income margins greater than 20%. C.H. Robinson dominates domestic transportation management in North America. While 76% of Robinson’s net revenues are truck transportation related, it has solid domestic intermodal, international air and ocean, food sourcing, fuel card services and fuel management, and supply chain management. It has also been expanding its TMC operations which focus on large transportation network management. The TMC is now serving the Americas, Europe and Asia. Employees are highly incented to take care of customers. C.H. Robinson’s Canadian operations developed quickly and it has become a strong player with eight offices for freight brokerage, six for forwarding and three for produce. European operations have also been successful and profitable. They are a natural fit for Europe’s atomized owner-operator based companies. Asian operations continue to grow. Recently, Robinson acquired offices in India and continues to make careful purchases of companies with specializations and has access to the free cash flow to make more. C.H. Robinson's IT and business processes are tightly coordinated. Reporting capabilities provide good operating and profitability control. Ongoing modifications include much stronger and friendlier carrier/capacity management.

     

   

 22. Hyundai GLOVIS is part of the Hyundai Kia Automotive Group under its parent company Hyundai Motor Co., Ltd. It specializes in the automotive, industrial and chemicals vertical industries. About 12% of its logistics revenue is Korea-based. The rest is generated by its 14 branch offices. In 2011, it opened a branch office in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

   

   

23. Kerry Logistics' business portfolio encompasses contract logistics, international freight forwarding, warehousing, transportation, distribution, trading, merchandising and a wide variety of value-added services and is now managing over 26 million square feet of warehouse space, logistics centers and port facilities globally. Its Integrated Logistics division, mainly value-added warehousing and distribution, generates 43% of revenue and its International Freight Forwarding division generates 57%. Kerry Logistics handles 620,000 TEUs and 173,000 metric tons of airfreight annually. Kerry EAS Logistics, the brand name of Kerry Logistics in Mainland China, continues to provide high-quality logistics and solutions to customers in three major areas: freight forwarding, express parcel delivery and contract logistics.

     

     

24.  Sankyu is an asset based, Japanese 3PL with a strong presence in the Asian market as well as operations in Europe, USA and Brazil. Although Sankyu still does a significant amount of project logistics, the main revenue from its logistics division is from the automotive, chemicals, consumer goods and retailing verticals. Its Logistics business unit generates 54% of Sankyu's total company revenue.

       

25. DACHSER handled 49 million shipments in 2011 - 470,000 airfreight shipments and 321,000 less-than-containerload and containerload ocean shipments. Its largest business segment, DACHSER European Logistics, accounted for 61% of revenue in 2011. Its other business segments include DACHSER Air & Sea Logistics which accounted for 26% of its 2011 revenue and DACHSER Food Logistics, a specialist in warehousing and distribution in the temperature-controlled, non-frozen food segment in Germany, accounted for the rest. Nearly 60% of DACHSER’s 21,000 employees are based in Germany. DACHSER tends to be more modern and aggressive than many of its competitors.