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2021 Essential Financial and Operating Information for the 50 Largest Logistics Companies in North America
Up Front
The pandemic-driven spike in online shopping has forced firms to adjust operations.
For the 2021 list, we've decided to use a different metric to rank companies.
Find out where the Top 50 are located by U.S. region.
Rankings
Rank Company Total Refrigerated Storage (Millions of Cu. Ft.) No. of Warehouses
1 Lineage Logistics 2,100.0 340
2 Americold Logistics 1,410.0 186
3 United States Cold Storage 376.0 42
4 XPO Logistics 175.0 336
5 VersaCold Logistics Services 120.0 27
6 Penske Logistics 77.3 94
7 Burris Logistics 75.6 14
8 Conestoga Cold Storage 64.0 5
9 Midwest Refrigerated Services 45.9 7
10 Hanson Logistics 43.0 7
11 Trenton Cold Storage 34.0 8
12 Confederation Freezers 29.0 8
13 FW Logistics 24.0 16
14 RLS Logistics 20.0 5
15 NFI 16.0 132
16 Covenant Logistics Group 10.5 12
17 Geodis (North America) 1.4 171
18 Rinchem Co. 1.2 21
19 Peoples Services 1.0 45
Extras
Evan Armstrong breaks down how COVID-19 challenged companies in 2020.
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On the Bubble

Seko Logistics ($800 million), Itasca, Ill., provides air and ocean freight forwarding, custom brokerage, freight brokerage, inventory management and packaging, order fulfillment, supply chain consulting, transportation management and warehousing and distribution.
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Logistics News
Business, Logistics

Trucking Executives Frustrated Shippers Trying to Lock In Low Rates

While many in the industry believe this year will be better than 2016, trucking executives are concerned about shippers trying to lock in low rates to get ahead of the curve on the contract market.

Ari Ashe | Staff Reporter
January 6, 2017
Business, Logistics

Best Logistics Group Acquires Carpet Distribution Firm

Best Logistics Group has purchased C&S Carpet Distribution, a carrier based in Dalton, Georgia, that provides consolidation and delivery services for manufacturers of carpet and floor coverings located in Northwest Georgia.

January 6, 2017
Business, Logistics

Union Pacific Acquires Fruit, Vegetable Shipping Firm Railex

Union Pacific, the nation’s largest railroad, has acquired the refrigerated and cold-storage facilities of Railex in Rotterdam, N.Y., Wallula, Washington, and Delano, California.

John Cropley | The Daily Gazette (Schenectady, N.Y.)
January 6, 2017
Business, Logistics

Intermodal Traffic Drops in 2016, First Annual Drop Since 2009

After four consecutive years of record-breaking intermodal growth in the railroad industry, container and trailer traffic dropped 1.6% in 2016, according to data from the Association of American Railroads.

Ari Ashe | Staff Reporter
January 4, 2017
Business, Logistics

Construction Begins on New Jersey Intermodal Terminal

Construction has begun on an intermodal terminal at the Global Container Terminals in Bayonne, New Jersey, to connect on-site to CSX and Norfolk Southern railroads and to offer an alternative that could result in fewer containers being placed on trucks.

January 4, 2017
Business, Logistics

Maersk, Alibaba Partner to Offer Online Ship Booking

Maersk, the world's largest container shipping line, has teamed up with Alibaba to allow customers to reserve space on its vessels through the Chinese company, illustrating growing cooperation between e-commerce and logistics firms.

Brenda Goh | Reuters
January 4, 2017
Business, Logistics

Overcoming Teamsters Opposition, XPO Shareholders OK Higher Exec Compensation

XPO shareholders overwhelmingly approved a plan Dec. 20 to increase the maximum number of shares the company can issue to executives as compensation, to 2.5 million shares from 500,000, easily overcoming opposition from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

January 3, 2017
Government, Business, Safety, Logistics, Fuel

Martin Klepper Named First Chief of Build America Bureau

With less than three weeks left in the Obama administration, Martin Klepper was named the first executive director of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Build America Bureau on Dec. 30.

David Elfin | Staff Reporter
January 3, 2017
Letters to the Editor, Business, Fuel, Government, Logistics, Technology, Autonomous

Letters: Skepticism Over Hydrogen Claims, Shipper Tactics

The Nikola One isn’t actually a zero-emissions vehicle when you see the entire process.

January 2, 2017
Business, Logistics, Equipment

November Trailer Orders Down 8%; Still Strongest Month of 2016

U.S. trailer orders in November were more than 36,000 and, while the strongest month of the year, they fell just short of the year-earlier volume, analysts said.

Roger Gilroy | Senior Reporter
January 2, 2017
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