The port of Baltimore handled a record-breaking 10.3 million tons of general cargo and nearly 908,000 20-foot- equivalent units of containers in the 2017 fiscal year ending June 30, the Maryland Port Administration announced Sept. 28.
September 29, 2017Logistics 50 | Freight Brokerage | Dry Storage Warehousing | Refrigerated Warehousing | Dedicated | Ocean Freight | Airfreight
Top Ocean Freight Forwarders
Rank | Company | Headquarters | Ocean Containers |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Kuehne + Nagel | Switzerland | 4,355,000 |
2 | DHL Supply Chain & Global Forwarding | Germany | 3,259,000 |
3 | Sinotrans Ltd. | China | 2,950,800 |
4 | DB Schenker | Germany | 2,126,800 |
5 | Panalpina Inc. | Switzerland | 1,520,500 |
6 | DSV A/S | Denmark | 1,389,611 |
7 | Expeditors International of Washington | United States | 1,070,424 |
8 | Kerry Logistics | Hong Kong | 1,053,485 |
9 | Hellmann Worldwide Logistics | Germany | 897,379 |
10 | Bollore Logistics | France | 856,000 |
11 | LF Logistics | Hong Kong | 778,796 |
12 | Yusen Logistics | Japan | 774,822 |
13 | Agility Logistics | Kuwait | 740,000 |
14 | Ceva Logistics | France | 729,000 |
15 | C.H. Robinson Worldwide | United States | 698,000 |
16 | Geodis | France | 690,000 |
17 | Damco/Maersk Logistics | The Netherlands | 659,000 |
18 | UPS Supply Chain Solutions | United States | 600,000 |
19 | Orient Overseas Container Line Ltd. | Hong Kong | 600,000 |
20 | Logwin AG | Luxembourg | 600,000 |
21 | Kintetsu World Express | Japan | 556,640 |
22 | Nippon Express | Japan | 550,000 |
23 | Worldwide Logistics Ltd. | China | 508,732 |
24 | Mallory Alexander International Logistics | United States | 500,000 |
25 | Hitachi Transport System | Japan | 500,000 |
26 | Dachser SE | Germany | 481,400 |
27 | Toll Global Forwarding | Australia | 434,000 |
28 | Honour Lane Shipping | Hong Kong | 326,490 |
29 | CJ Logistics | South Korea | 310,850 |
30 | Mainfreight Ltd. | New Zealand | 280,539 |
31 | BDP International | United States | 275,782 |
32 | Dimerco Express Group | Taiwan | 227,600 |
33 | CWT Pte. Ltd. | Singapore | 170,000 |
34 | EFL | Sri Lanka | 164,495 |
35 | Topocean Group Inc. | United States | 156,000 |
36 | De Well Group | China | 150,000 |
37 | NNR Global Logistics | Japan | 144,483 |
38 | XPO Logistics | United States | 131,500 |
39 | TransGroup Global Logistics | United States | 130,200 |
40 | MIQ Logistics | United States | 125,000 |
41 | Asia Shipping Transportes Internacionais | Brazil | 114,376 |
42 | APL Logistics | Singapore | 112,848 |
43 | Crane Worldwide Logistics | United States | 100,634 |
44 | Scanwell Logistics | United States | 100,000 |
45 | American Global Logistics | United States | 94,000 |
46 | Qingdao Jet Marine Logistics | China | 80,000 |
47 | City Ocean Logistics | China | 80,000 |
48 | Odyssey Logistics & Technology | United States | 73,000 |
49 | Sankyu Inc. | Japan | 71,894 |
50 | AWOT Global Logistics Group | China | 70,000 |
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Extras
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