Food Logistics Names 2017 Top 3PL & Cold Storage Providers
BY FOOD LOGISTICS EDITORS ON AUG 15, 2017
Diverse in their capabilities and the customers they service, each company continues to improve their expertise and keep up with the latest temperature monitoring technologies, transportation management systems and warehouse management systems. Transportation and logistics in the food supply chain, especially perishables, requires a commitment on the part of 3PLs and cold storage providers to continually invest in their own operations to meet the needs of their customers’ operations.
To help logistics professionals know who they can turn to for help in temperature-controlled transport issues, Food Logistics offers its annual Top 3PL & Cold Storage Providers as an up-to-date list of providers with a summary of their capabilities. This list provides a handy resource to transportation decision makers, giving them a snapshot of the capabilities of these companies and the geographic regions they serve.
Congratulations to all of the companies earning a spot on our 2017 Top 3PL & Cold Storage Providers list. The following are expanded profiles of some of the companies on the list.
Year Founded: 1903
Number of Employees: 11,000
Area served: International
Asset/Non Asset: Both
Worth Noting: Americold customers asked for a national consolidation program, and the logistics provider has worked hard to deliver a network of regional consolidation centers to cover every food retailer and service provider with scheduled deliveries. Customers have national access from any of Americold’s strategically-located regional consolidation centers.
Year Founded: 1925
Number of Employees: 1,863
Area served: U.S. Region
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: Burris Logistics is a high-quality provider of customized perishable, multi-temperature supply chain solutions, including freight management, warehousing, distribution and technology solutions. They pride themselves on their ability to learn from their customers and the industries they serve to collaborate on the best solutions for their supply chain needs.
Year Founded: 1960
Number of Employees: 3,600
Area served: North America
Asset/Non Asset: Both
Worth Noting: DSC Logistics is a leader in transforming logistics and supply chain management into a critical business strategy based on collaborative partnerships, innovative thinking and high-performance operations. Additionally, DSC is a certified woman-owned business.
Year Founded: 1973
Number of Employees: 55
Area served: International
Asset/Non-Asset: Asset
Worth Noting: DSW Distribution Centers Inc. is a 44-year-old, family-owned, third-party logistics provider, offering a wide array of value-added services, with specialized licensing and multiple temperatures for the food, pharma/bio tech, beverage and consumer packaged goods industries.
Year Founded: 2014
Number of Employees: 22
Area served: National
Asset/Non-Asset: Non-asset
Worth Noting: Ease Logistics has experienced steady growth through the food and beverage industry since its founding in 2014. In three years, their revenue has grown from $3 million in 2014, $12 million in 2015 and $18 million in 2016. Ease moves more than 9,000 temperature-controlled and 5,000 dry shipments a year.
Year Founded: 1991
Number of Employees: 300
Area served: North America
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: FST Logistics is an employee-owned, 100 percent food-focused logistics company, offering customers a single source solution for all temperature-controlled warehousing and transportation needs. In addition, they offer a fulfillment solution for small e-commerce packages— for both B-B and B-C.
Year Founded: 1982
Number of Employees: 555
Area served: National
Asset/Non-Asset: Non-asset
Worth Noting: H&M Bay is the country’s premier logistics provider for less-than-truckload (LTL) refrigerated and frozen commodities. Consolidation centers strategically located nationwide, along with a host of web-based systems for ordering and tracking, help H&M Bay’s customers manage all their shipping needs.
Year Founded: 1923
Number of Employees: 341
Area served: National
Asset/Non-Asset: Non-asset
Worth Noting: Henningsen Cold Storage Co. is a fifth-generation, family-owned corporation, with roots dating to 1923. Henningsen also is the 11th largest cold storage company in North America, and currently is finishing construction on its 11th temperature-controlled warehouse, which will be located in Salem, Oregon.
Year Founded: 1971
Number of Employees: 89
Area served: International
Asset/Non-Asset: Non-asset
Worth Noting: JTS is a transportation member of Blue Book Services, with a $1.5 million credit score and the highest 4X rating. They are TIA Performance Certified and an Internet Truckstop Diamond Broker. JTS is unique in offering business improvement ideas, TMS services, and above and beyond shipment monitoring and confirmation services for their customers.
Year Founded: 1930
Number of Employees: 1,300
Area served: National
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: In an outsourced services environment, culture matters. Companies can’t afford to partner with a group of clock-watchers who see themselves as one step removed from their customers. Companies need team players that think and act as extensions of their company, sweating the details, pinching pennies, losing sleep. That’s the kind of culture that’s been cultivated at Kane Is Able since 1930. Those are the kinds of people they employ. Results don’t lie.
Year Founded: 1978
Number of Employees: 346
Area served: National
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: Keller Logistics Group is family owned and accountable to their stakeholders—not stockholders—standing proud of their small company culture with large corporate capabilities. Keller’s suite of services provides efficient closed loop logistics solutions, minimizing the costs associated with multiple logistics resource outsourcing. Their affiliate companies specialize in serving the food and beverage, consumer packaged goods, building supplies, medical and scrap metal industries.
Year Founded: 1950
Number of Employees: 5,000
Area served: North America
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: Kenco’s integrated logistics platform focuses on commitment to service and cultural alignment, while providing vertically integrated and engineered solutions with its partners. Kenco also is a U.S.- and Canada-focused company, with the capabilities of fulfilling supplier diversity requirements. Additionally, they are proud to be the largest woman-owned third-party logistics company in the United States.
Year Founded: 2006
Number of Employees: 6,500
Area served: North America
Asset/Non Asset: Asset
Worth Noting: Lineage Logistics recently opened a new facility in Long Beach, California, expanding its national cold storage footprint to more than 610 million cubic feet at 114 facilities in 22 states. The company also added high pressure processing capacity at two locations and initiated energy savings programs throughout the network. Additionally, the company acquired Consolidated Distribution Corporation (CDC), a third-party logistics and redistribution company, which makes Lineage the largest customized redistribution network in the United States.
Year Founded: 1970
Number of Employees: 175
Area served: U.S. Region
Asset/Non-Asset: Asset
Worth Noting: Metro Park Warehouses differentiates itself competitively as a licensed alcohol, drugs and medical device distributor. Metro Park recently established a regional truckload company for customer outbound shipments, and constructed a new 350,000-square-foot building to accommodate growth by two major customers. The expansion allowed another major customer to consolidate inventories and other customers to streamline inbound rail shipments.
Year Founded: 1969
Number of Employees: 14,180
Area served: International
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: Penske Logistics is one of the industry’s largest providers of 3PL, dedicated contract carrier and warehousing services.
Year Founded: 1999
Number of Employees: 100+
Area served: North America
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: As a full service 3PL, Polar & Great Lakes Cold Storage offers a variety of services to customers across North America. Transportation services include temperature-controlled LTL and truckload capabilities, multi-vendor consolidation, local shuttles and redelivery, and dedicated services. Warehousing services include long- and short-term commitments across 8.8 million cubic feet of space, blast freezing, labeling, full EDI, and seasonal opportunities.
Year Founded: 1954
Number of Employees: 195
Area served: National
Asset/Non Asset: Both
Worth Noting: Port Jersey Logistics operates two divisions: Continental Logistics Inc., focused on transportation management, and Tyler Distribution Centers Inc., focused on warehousing solutions. Both divisions focus on servicing the packaged food and food ingredients industries by combining advanced systems, compliance knowledge and industry experience.
Year Founded: 1954
Number of Employees: 124
Area served: North America
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: RBW likes to think of themselves as creative logisticians. They work with food-grade manufacturing customers to add value and create a smarter supply chain. Most recently, they were able to help a customer improve their operations and remove a couple links of their supply chain by allowing them to blend their tea in one of the RBW facilities.
Year Founded: 2001
Number of Employees: 357
Area served: North America
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: Redwood’s proprietary B2B integration platform, RedwoodConnectSM, enables the logistics provider to integrate their customers’ disparate supply chain systems seamlessly, meaning a faster speed to automation, improved visibility and control. Redwood’s employees act as a trusted extension of their customer’s team, creating continued value. They have grown organically because Redwood never stops investing in their people and a culture that fosters long-lasting relationships with their customers.
Year Founded: 1988
Number of Employees: 250
Area served: North America
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: RLS Logistics continues to provide exceptional service, with heavy emphasis on service and food safety. Expansion plans are under way for construction of their fifth cold storage location. RLS also is looking to expand operations in the west and Salt Lake City, Utah. They offer temperature-controlled LTL consolidation, warehousing, packaging, re-packing, and B2B and B2C fulfillment.
Year Founded: 1933
Number of Employees: 34,500
Area served: International
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: Ryder provides warehousing and transportation services, with public and dedicated warehouse facilities; cross-dock and trans-load capability; and food packaging capabilities, with a 343,000 square foot multi-temperature facility located on 27 acres in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. Ryder recently launched a new, innovative technology solution, RyderShare, which works on smart devices and desktops alike, providing load location visibility, tracking and customized communications across all modes of transportation through a single source.
Year Founded: 2011
Number of Employees: 45
Area served: North America
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: Service First’s competitive differentiator is their dedication to improve the supply chain through innovative technology. Their TMS platform provides customers with complete transparency, offering live shipment tracking, temperature readings, integrated messaging and paperless document storage. Service First customers have the ability to view, update and make notes to a shipment from their smartphone, tablet or computer.
Year Founded: 1985
Number of Employees: 12
Area served: National
Asset/Non-Asset: Non-asset
Worth Noting: Snowland is a 3PL with the infrastructure, technology and resources to help customers simplify their supply chain, create efficiency and develop solutions that drive value without compromising on quality. They manage almost every type of shipment to all points in the contiguous 48 states, and are committed to long-term relationships with both shippers and carriers.
Year Founded: 1892
Number of Employees: 325
Area served: U.S. Region
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: Star Distribution’s core focus is providing LTL freight consolidation services with guaranteed next day delivery to any location in the state of Florida. They have more than 150 food and beverage customers who take advantage of their program—from soup to nuts.
Year Founded: 2000
Number of Employees: 1,740
Area served: North America
Asset/Non Asset: Non-asset
Worth Noting: Transplace is a premier provider of managed transportation, consulting and TMS solutions, as well as intermodal, truck brokerage and cross-border trade services. With operations centers located throughout North America, Transplace delivers integrated solutions tailored to meet in-county and cross-border supply chain needs. The company is recognized among the elite 3PLs for its proven ability to deliver both rapid return on investment and consistent value to a customer base ranging from mid-market shippers to Fortune 500 companies.
Year Founded: 1999
Number of Employees: 440
Area served: International
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: Transportation Insight is a global enterprise logistics provider with top-tier solutions in all transportation modes. The U.S. EPA 2016 SmartWay Excellence Awardee’s offerings encompass robust technology, big data solutions, supply chain analytics, streamlined operational processes and proprietary continuous improvement methodologies for the end-to-end supply chain.
Year Founded: 1946
Number of Employees: 2,600
Area served: North America
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: VersaCold is Canada’s largest supply chain solutions company, focused exclusively on the handling of temperature sensitive products. VersaCold delivers a suite of fully integrated logistics services through its national network of industry leading facilities, transportation fleet and advanced technologies, which set the benchmark for accessibility, information visualization, real-time tracking and inventory management.
Year Founded: 1977
Number of Employees: 120
Area served: National
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: Worley is strategically located for regional storage of temperature-controlled and ambient storage. Worley’s focus on food defense/food safety and regulatory compliance is an attribute their clients depend on as a service provider and technical resource. Their operational strategy and tactical approach are designed to be in sync with their clients’ strategic objectives. Worley’s WMS, WAREPAK/400, is capable of interfacing with major ERP solutions.
Year Founded: 1966
Number of Employees: 1,000
Area served: National
Asset/Non Asset: Both
Worth Noting: From canned tomatoes to non-fat dry milk to cranberries, WSI is your dry foods expert. Adhering to rigorous condition, count and time standards and safety regulations, WSI ensures products leave warehouses in top condition for journeys across town or overseas. Commitment to absolute reliability—guaranteeing products arrive in the best shape, the right quantity and at the correct time—is key to their clients’ supply chain processes.
Year Founded: 1955
Number of Employees: 2,700
Area served: International
Asset/Non Asset: Non-asset
Worth Noting: Yusen Logistics (Americas) has more than four decades of experience working with food growers, manufacturers, suppliers and retailers to help them solve their unique supply chain requirements. Yusen handles nearly a million dollars in food- and beverage-related business each year. Their services include: reefer, over the road, less-than-truckload, flow-through warehousing and retail POS display management.
To help logistics professionals know who they can turn to for help in temperature-controlled transport issues, Food Logistics offers its annual Top 3PL & Cold Storage Providers as an up-to-date list of providers with a summary of their capabilities. This list provides a handy resource to transportation decision makers, giving them a snapshot of the capabilities of these companies and the geographic regions they serve.
Congratulations to all of the companies earning a spot on our 2017 Top 3PL & Cold Storage Providers list. The following are expanded profiles of some of the companies on the list.
Americold
Location: Atlanta, GeorgiaYear Founded: 1903
Number of Employees: 11,000
Area served: International
Asset/Non Asset: Both
Worth Noting: Americold customers asked for a national consolidation program, and the logistics provider has worked hard to deliver a network of regional consolidation centers to cover every food retailer and service provider with scheduled deliveries. Customers have national access from any of Americold’s strategically-located regional consolidation centers.
Burris Logistics
Location: Milford, DelawareYear Founded: 1925
Number of Employees: 1,863
Area served: U.S. Region
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: Burris Logistics is a high-quality provider of customized perishable, multi-temperature supply chain solutions, including freight management, warehousing, distribution and technology solutions. They pride themselves on their ability to learn from their customers and the industries they serve to collaborate on the best solutions for their supply chain needs.
DSC Logistics
Location: Des Plaines, IllinoisYear Founded: 1960
Number of Employees: 3,600
Area served: North America
Asset/Non Asset: Both
Worth Noting: DSC Logistics is a leader in transforming logistics and supply chain management into a critical business strategy based on collaborative partnerships, innovative thinking and high-performance operations. Additionally, DSC is a certified woman-owned business.
DSW Distribution Centers Inc.
Location: Rancho Cucamonga, CaliforniaYear Founded: 1973
Number of Employees: 55
Area served: International
Asset/Non-Asset: Asset
Worth Noting: DSW Distribution Centers Inc. is a 44-year-old, family-owned, third-party logistics provider, offering a wide array of value-added services, with specialized licensing and multiple temperatures for the food, pharma/bio tech, beverage and consumer packaged goods industries.
Ease Logistics Services LLC
Location: Dublin, OhioYear Founded: 2014
Number of Employees: 22
Area served: National
Asset/Non-Asset: Non-asset
Worth Noting: Ease Logistics has experienced steady growth through the food and beverage industry since its founding in 2014. In three years, their revenue has grown from $3 million in 2014, $12 million in 2015 and $18 million in 2016. Ease moves more than 9,000 temperature-controlled and 5,000 dry shipments a year.
FST Logistics
Location: Columbus, OhioYear Founded: 1991
Number of Employees: 300
Area served: North America
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: FST Logistics is an employee-owned, 100 percent food-focused logistics company, offering customers a single source solution for all temperature-controlled warehousing and transportation needs. In addition, they offer a fulfillment solution for small e-commerce packages— for both B-B and B-C.
H&M Bay Inc.
Location: Federalsburg, MarylandYear Founded: 1982
Number of Employees: 555
Area served: National
Asset/Non-Asset: Non-asset
Worth Noting: H&M Bay is the country’s premier logistics provider for less-than-truckload (LTL) refrigerated and frozen commodities. Consolidation centers strategically located nationwide, along with a host of web-based systems for ordering and tracking, help H&M Bay’s customers manage all their shipping needs.
Henningsen Cold Storage Co.
Location: Hillsboro, OregonYear Founded: 1923
Number of Employees: 341
Area served: National
Asset/Non-Asset: Non-asset
Worth Noting: Henningsen Cold Storage Co. is a fifth-generation, family-owned corporation, with roots dating to 1923. Henningsen also is the 11th largest cold storage company in North America, and currently is finishing construction on its 11th temperature-controlled warehouse, which will be located in Salem, Oregon.
Johanson Transportation Service
Location: Fresno, CaliforniaYear Founded: 1971
Number of Employees: 89
Area served: International
Asset/Non-Asset: Non-asset
Worth Noting: JTS is a transportation member of Blue Book Services, with a $1.5 million credit score and the highest 4X rating. They are TIA Performance Certified and an Internet Truckstop Diamond Broker. JTS is unique in offering business improvement ideas, TMS services, and above and beyond shipment monitoring and confirmation services for their customers.
Kane Is Able
Location: Scranton, PennsylvaniaYear Founded: 1930
Number of Employees: 1,300
Area served: National
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: In an outsourced services environment, culture matters. Companies can’t afford to partner with a group of clock-watchers who see themselves as one step removed from their customers. Companies need team players that think and act as extensions of their company, sweating the details, pinching pennies, losing sleep. That’s the kind of culture that’s been cultivated at Kane Is Able since 1930. Those are the kinds of people they employ. Results don’t lie.
Keller Logistics Group
Location: Defiance, OhioYear Founded: 1978
Number of Employees: 346
Area served: National
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: Keller Logistics Group is family owned and accountable to their stakeholders—not stockholders—standing proud of their small company culture with large corporate capabilities. Keller’s suite of services provides efficient closed loop logistics solutions, minimizing the costs associated with multiple logistics resource outsourcing. Their affiliate companies specialize in serving the food and beverage, consumer packaged goods, building supplies, medical and scrap metal industries.
Kenco
Location: Chattanooga, TennesseeYear Founded: 1950
Number of Employees: 5,000
Area served: North America
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: Kenco’s integrated logistics platform focuses on commitment to service and cultural alignment, while providing vertically integrated and engineered solutions with its partners. Kenco also is a U.S.- and Canada-focused company, with the capabilities of fulfilling supplier diversity requirements. Additionally, they are proud to be the largest woman-owned third-party logistics company in the United States.
Lineage Logistics
Location: Irvine, CaliforniaYear Founded: 2006
Number of Employees: 6,500
Area served: North America
Asset/Non Asset: Asset
Worth Noting: Lineage Logistics recently opened a new facility in Long Beach, California, expanding its national cold storage footprint to more than 610 million cubic feet at 114 facilities in 22 states. The company also added high pressure processing capacity at two locations and initiated energy savings programs throughout the network. Additionally, the company acquired Consolidated Distribution Corporation (CDC), a third-party logistics and redistribution company, which makes Lineage the largest customized redistribution network in the United States.
Metro Park Warehouses
Location: Kansas City, MissouriYear Founded: 1970
Number of Employees: 175
Area served: U.S. Region
Asset/Non-Asset: Asset
Worth Noting: Metro Park Warehouses differentiates itself competitively as a licensed alcohol, drugs and medical device distributor. Metro Park recently established a regional truckload company for customer outbound shipments, and constructed a new 350,000-square-foot building to accommodate growth by two major customers. The expansion allowed another major customer to consolidate inventories and other customers to streamline inbound rail shipments.
Penske Logistics
Location: Reading, PennsylvaniaYear Founded: 1969
Number of Employees: 14,180
Area served: International
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: Penske Logistics is one of the industry’s largest providers of 3PL, dedicated contract carrier and warehousing services.
Polar & Great Lakes Cold Storage
Location: Solon, OhioYear Founded: 1999
Number of Employees: 100+
Area served: North America
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: As a full service 3PL, Polar & Great Lakes Cold Storage offers a variety of services to customers across North America. Transportation services include temperature-controlled LTL and truckload capabilities, multi-vendor consolidation, local shuttles and redelivery, and dedicated services. Warehousing services include long- and short-term commitments across 8.8 million cubic feet of space, blast freezing, labeling, full EDI, and seasonal opportunities.
Port Jersey Logistics
Location: Cranbury, New JerseyYear Founded: 1954
Number of Employees: 195
Area served: National
Asset/Non Asset: Both
Worth Noting: Port Jersey Logistics operates two divisions: Continental Logistics Inc., focused on transportation management, and Tyler Distribution Centers Inc., focused on warehousing solutions. Both divisions focus on servicing the packaged food and food ingredients industries by combining advanced systems, compliance knowledge and industry experience.
RBW Logistics
Location: Augusta, GeorgiaYear Founded: 1954
Number of Employees: 124
Area served: North America
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: RBW likes to think of themselves as creative logisticians. They work with food-grade manufacturing customers to add value and create a smarter supply chain. Most recently, they were able to help a customer improve their operations and remove a couple links of their supply chain by allowing them to blend their tea in one of the RBW facilities.
Redwood Logistics
Location: Chicago, IllinoisYear Founded: 2001
Number of Employees: 357
Area served: North America
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: Redwood’s proprietary B2B integration platform, RedwoodConnectSM, enables the logistics provider to integrate their customers’ disparate supply chain systems seamlessly, meaning a faster speed to automation, improved visibility and control. Redwood’s employees act as a trusted extension of their customer’s team, creating continued value. They have grown organically because Redwood never stops investing in their people and a culture that fosters long-lasting relationships with their customers.
RLS Logistics
Location: Newfield, New JerseyYear Founded: 1988
Number of Employees: 250
Area served: North America
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: RLS Logistics continues to provide exceptional service, with heavy emphasis on service and food safety. Expansion plans are under way for construction of their fifth cold storage location. RLS also is looking to expand operations in the west and Salt Lake City, Utah. They offer temperature-controlled LTL consolidation, warehousing, packaging, re-packing, and B2B and B2C fulfillment.
Ryder System Inc.
Location: Miami, FloridaYear Founded: 1933
Number of Employees: 34,500
Area served: International
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: Ryder provides warehousing and transportation services, with public and dedicated warehouse facilities; cross-dock and trans-load capability; and food packaging capabilities, with a 343,000 square foot multi-temperature facility located on 27 acres in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. Ryder recently launched a new, innovative technology solution, RyderShare, which works on smart devices and desktops alike, providing load location visibility, tracking and customized communications across all modes of transportation through a single source.
Service First Logistics Inc.
Location: Auburn Hills, MichiganYear Founded: 2011
Number of Employees: 45
Area served: North America
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: Service First’s competitive differentiator is their dedication to improve the supply chain through innovative technology. Their TMS platform provides customers with complete transparency, offering live shipment tracking, temperature readings, integrated messaging and paperless document storage. Service First customers have the ability to view, update and make notes to a shipment from their smartphone, tablet or computer.
Snowland Freight Services
Location: Mendota Heights, MinnesotaYear Founded: 1985
Number of Employees: 12
Area served: National
Asset/Non-Asset: Non-asset
Worth Noting: Snowland is a 3PL with the infrastructure, technology and resources to help customers simplify their supply chain, create efficiency and develop solutions that drive value without compromising on quality. They manage almost every type of shipment to all points in the contiguous 48 states, and are committed to long-term relationships with both shippers and carriers.
Star Distribution Systems Inc.
Location: Plant City, FloridaYear Founded: 1892
Number of Employees: 325
Area served: U.S. Region
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: Star Distribution’s core focus is providing LTL freight consolidation services with guaranteed next day delivery to any location in the state of Florida. They have more than 150 food and beverage customers who take advantage of their program—from soup to nuts.
Transplace
Location: Frisco, TexasYear Founded: 2000
Number of Employees: 1,740
Area served: North America
Asset/Non Asset: Non-asset
Worth Noting: Transplace is a premier provider of managed transportation, consulting and TMS solutions, as well as intermodal, truck brokerage and cross-border trade services. With operations centers located throughout North America, Transplace delivers integrated solutions tailored to meet in-county and cross-border supply chain needs. The company is recognized among the elite 3PLs for its proven ability to deliver both rapid return on investment and consistent value to a customer base ranging from mid-market shippers to Fortune 500 companies.
Transportation Insight
Location: Hickory, North CarolinaYear Founded: 1999
Number of Employees: 440
Area served: International
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: Transportation Insight is a global enterprise logistics provider with top-tier solutions in all transportation modes. The U.S. EPA 2016 SmartWay Excellence Awardee’s offerings encompass robust technology, big data solutions, supply chain analytics, streamlined operational processes and proprietary continuous improvement methodologies for the end-to-end supply chain.
VersaCold Logistics Services
Location: Richmond, British ColumbiaYear Founded: 1946
Number of Employees: 2,600
Area served: North America
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: VersaCold is Canada’s largest supply chain solutions company, focused exclusively on the handling of temperature sensitive products. VersaCold delivers a suite of fully integrated logistics services through its national network of industry leading facilities, transportation fleet and advanced technologies, which set the benchmark for accessibility, information visualization, real-time tracking and inventory management.
Worley Companies
Location: Cedar Rapids, IowaYear Founded: 1977
Number of Employees: 120
Area served: National
Asset/Non-Asset: Both
Worth Noting: Worley is strategically located for regional storage of temperature-controlled and ambient storage. Worley’s focus on food defense/food safety and regulatory compliance is an attribute their clients depend on as a service provider and technical resource. Their operational strategy and tactical approach are designed to be in sync with their clients’ strategic objectives. Worley’s WMS, WAREPAK/400, is capable of interfacing with major ERP solutions.
WSI
Location: Appleton, WisconsinYear Founded: 1966
Number of Employees: 1,000
Area served: National
Asset/Non Asset: Both
Worth Noting: From canned tomatoes to non-fat dry milk to cranberries, WSI is your dry foods expert. Adhering to rigorous condition, count and time standards and safety regulations, WSI ensures products leave warehouses in top condition for journeys across town or overseas. Commitment to absolute reliability—guaranteeing products arrive in the best shape, the right quantity and at the correct time—is key to their clients’ supply chain processes.
Yusen Logistics (Americas) Inc.
Location: Secaucus, New JerseyYear Founded: 1955
Number of Employees: 2,700
Area served: International
Asset/Non Asset: Non-asset
Worth Noting: Yusen Logistics (Americas) has more than four decades of experience working with food growers, manufacturers, suppliers and retailers to help them solve their unique supply chain requirements. Yusen handles nearly a million dollars in food- and beverage-related business each year. Their services include: reefer, over the road, less-than-truckload, flow-through warehousing and retail POS display management.
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