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2018 Essential Financial and Operating Information for the 50 Largest Logistics Companies in North America

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Rankings
Rank Company Total Refrigerated Storage (Millions of Cu. Ft.) No. of Warehouses
1 Americold Logistics 945.0 160
2 Lineage Logistics 600.0 114
3 Preferred Freezer Services 300.0 37
4 United States Cold Storage 270.0 38
5 XPO Logistics 141.8 401
6 VersaCold Logistics Services 118.0 31
7 Interstate Warehousing 100.0 7
8 Cloverleaf Cold Storage 91.0 17
9 Henningsen Cold Storage 60.0 11
10 Conestoga Cold Storage 37.0 5
11 Hanson Logistics 37.0 9
12 Allied Frozen Storage 35.0 7
13 Trenton Cold Storage 28.0 8
14 FST Logistics 22.5 6
15 NFI 15.9 130
16 Agro Merchants Group 7.5
17 Penske Logistics 1.9 87
18 Peoples Services Inc. 1.2 37
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Port Logistics Group ($210 million), City of Industry, Calif., provides dedicated contract carriage, freight brokerage, intermodal and drayage, order fulfillment, returned goods management, transportation management and warehousing and distribution.
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Logistics News
Business, Equipment, Logistics

GE to Cut 575 Jobs at Century-Old Locomotive Plant

General Electric Co. plans to end most locomotive manufacturing at a century-old Pennsylvania factory as the company looks to cut costs amid a sharp downturn in the domestic rail market.

Rick Clough | Bloomberg News
July 31, 2017
Business, Equipment, Fuel, Logistics

Growing Economy Boosts Fuel Demand to Decade High

A growing U.S. economy sparked a jump in fuel demand from companies and travelers in June, which may help to ease a persistent supply glut.

Jessica Summers | Bloomberg News
July 31, 2017
Business, Technology, Equipment, Logistics

Warehouse Forklifts Finally Give Hydrogen Power a Reason to Be

His tiny company, Plug Power Inc., makes hydrogen fuel cells, and for years he struggled to find customers. No longer. In April, Amazon.com Inc. agreed to try out the technology in forklift fleets at 10 of its warehouses.

Joe Ryan and Chris Martin | Bloomberg News
July 31, 2017
Business, Technology, Logistics

Amazon’s Warehouses Remind Market That Dominating E-Commerce Has a Price

Amazon.com Inc. reminded investors that luring shoppers away from stores and dominating the cloud-computing industry isn’t cheap.

Spencer Soper | Bloomberg News
July 28, 2017
Business, Logistics

Echo Suffers Losses for Third Straight Quarter

Echo Global Logistics set a new record on July 27 after failing to make a profit for the third consecutive quarter, which hasn’t happened once since the company went public in mid-2009.

Ari Ashe | Staff Reporter
July 27, 2017
Business, Technology, Logistics

Amazon Enlists Researchers to Build Box-Packing Warehouse Robots

Sixteen teams of robotics researchers are traveling to Japan this week to help Amazon.com Inc. solve its warehouse problem.

Joshua Brustein | Bloomberg News
July 27, 2017
Business, Logistics

UPS Reaps the Reward of Price Increases

UPS Inc. is finally figuring out how to make money from the surge in online shopping.

Michael Sasso | Bloomberg News
July 27, 2017
Business, Logistics

XPO Hires Christopher Synek as President of North American Transportation Division

XPO Logistics has hired Christopher Synek as president of transportation in North America, running the brokerage, expedited trucking, intermodal marketing, drayage and global forwarding businesses.

July 26, 2017
Government, Business, Logistics, TCA

Cargo Activity at Illinois Airport Jumps 39% as UPS, Amazon Flights Increase

More jobs and cash have landed at Chicago Rockford International Airport, where cargo volume is up nearly 40% for the first six months of the year compared with the first half of 2016.

Isaac Guerrero | Rockford (Ill.) Register Star
July 26, 2017
Government, Logistics

This Obscure NAFTA Chapter Could be Canada’s Deal-Breaker Again

The U.S. confirmed last week that among its top objectives in upcoming negotiations on the North American Free Trade Agreement — which superseded the FTA in 1994 — is the elimination of the Chapter 19 dispute-resolution mechanism that previous Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney went to such lengths to preserve.

Chris Fournier | Bloomberg News
July 25, 2017
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