Amazon.com Inc. is in talks to rent space at Brooklyn’s Industry City for a new logistics facility, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
July 24, 2019Logistics 50 | Freight Brokerage | Dry Storage Warehousing | Refrigerated Warehousing | Dedicated | Ocean Freight | Airfreight
Top Airfreight Forwarders
Rank | Company | Headquarters | Airfreight (Metric Tons) |
---|---|---|---|
1 | DHL Supply Chain & Global Forwarding | Germany | 1,795,000 |
2 | Kuehne + Nagel | Switzerland | 1,418,000 |
3 | DSV A/S | Denmark | 1,272,405 |
4 | DB Schenker | Germany | 991,200 |
5 | UPS Supply Chain Solutions | United States | 965,700 |
6 | Expeditors International of Washington | United States | 840,700 |
7 | Apex Logistics International | Hong Kong | 750,000 |
8 | Nippon Express | Japan | 720,115 |
9 | Hellmann Worldwide Logistics | Germany | 586,670 |
10 | Bollore Logistics | France | 574,000 |
11 | Kintetsu World Express | Japan | 566,814 |
12 | Sinotrans Ltd. | China | 502,000 |
13 | Kerry Logistics | Hong Kong | 493,903 |
14 | Ceva Logistics | France | 440,000 |
15 | Agility Logistics | Kuwait | 415,000 |
16 | Crane Worldwide Logistics | United States | 337,300 |
17 | Yusen Logistics | Japan | 337,000 |
18 | Dachser SE | Germany | 330,000 |
19 | Geodis | France | 308,173 |
20 | FedEx Logistics | United States | 262,500 |
21 | NNR Global Logistics | Japan | 244,595 |
22 | Pilot Freight Services | United States | 240,000 |
23 | C.H. Robinson Worldwide | United States | 225,000 |
24 | Hitachi Transport System | Japan | 221,000 |
25 | AWOT Global Logistics Group | China | 219,768 |
26 | Dimerco Express Group | Taiwan | 199,630 |
27 | Logwin AG | Luxembourg | 180,000 |
28 | Cargo-Partner | Austria | 171,850 |
29 | Trinity Logistics USA | United States | 164,000 |
30 | Damco/Maersk Logistics | The Netherlands | 158,405 |
31 | EFL | Sri Lanka | 146,098 |
32 | Mainfreight Ltd. | New Zealand | 126,071 |
33 | Toll Group | Australia | 111,600 |
34 | APL Logistics | Singapore | 106,000 |
35 | AIT Worldwide Logistics | United States | 105,850 |
36 | Beijing Harmony Shipping & Forwarding Agent | China | 100,000 |
37 | Seko Logistics | United States | 90,000 |
38 | TransGroup Global Logistics | United States | 86,000 |
39 | Nissin Corp. | Japan | 85,000 |
40 | BDP International | United States | 76,000 |
41 | OIA Global | United States | 75,000 |
42 | XPO Logistics | United States | 70,200 |
43 | Scan Global Logistics A/S | Denmark | 70,000 |
44 | Worldwide Logistics Group | China | 64,768 |
45 | Nexus Logistics | Chile | 58,678 |
46 | Noatum Logistics | Spain | 56,000 |
47 | Imperial Logistics | South Africa | 53,660 |
48 | Gebruder Weiss | Austria | 53,000 |
49 | Savino Del Bene | Italy | 50,000 |
49 | TVS Supply Chain Solutions | India | 50,000 |
Top 50 Logistics Companies provide logistics services, including freight brokerage, freight forwarding, warehousing and dedicated contract carriage in North America and are ranked on the basis of annual gross revenue. Some sector rankings may have been updated since their print publication. To be included in the Top 50 list, please send contact information to tteditor@ttnews.com. We will contact you via phone or e-mail to get information about your company prior to publication of the next Top 50 list.
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