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A SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT TO Special Report: Top 50 Global 3PLs A&A’s Top 50 Global 3PLs .............................Page 50 A&A’s Top 30 Domestic 3PLs ........................Page 52 The three dimensions of distribution excellence .............................Page 54 TOP 50 GLOBAL 3PLs: Modest gains ahead By Patrick Burnson, Executive Editor Having hit bottom in 2009, the 3PL sector is headed for a rebound. Analysts say that some providers will continue to expand globally even if their corporate identities remain fixed to sovereign states. However, research also indicates that near-shoring is a growing trend, giving “domestic” players more of an advantage. In lock step with the global economic nosedive, domestic revenues for the third-party logistics (3PL) market sank last year. “It wasn’t pretty,” says Evan Armstrong, president of Stoughton, Wisc.-based Armstrong & Associates. He says that the only thing the top players—both global and domestic—had in common was that “none of them made much money.” According to Armstrong’s 2010 U.S. and Global Third-Party Logistics Analysis, the international transportation management (ITM) segment of the 3PL services market took the biggest hit. Its gross revenue (turnover) fell 23.7 percent as total U.S. import and export ocean twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) dropped 12.3 percent. Airfreight metric tons dropped similarly with reductions at JFK and the Chicago airports exceeding 20 percent. As prices dove in the face of soft demand, net revenues (gross margins) for airfreight shrank by 18.9 percent. Expeditors International, the largest U.S. freight forwarder, saw gross revenues decrease 27 percent and net revenue decrease 14 percent. The good news is that first quarter 2010 results have included double digit improvements in 46S June 2010 • Logistics Management
››› WHAT ‹‹‹ I NEED FROM MY 3PL IS FLE IBILITY OHL customers know they can count on us to turn on a dime. Or a euro, a yuan or even on a rupee. With OHL, responsiveness is the name of the game. For everything from warehousing to transportation management, air and ocean forwarding to e-commerce fulfillment, you won’t find a better or more flexible logistics partner than OHL. www.ohl.com/letsgo or 800-401-6400 warehousing | e-commerce fulfillment | air and ocean forwarding | transportation management © 2010 OHL, the OHL logo and Let’s Go are the trademarks of Ozburn-Hessey Logistics, LLC.
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