Top 50 Global Transportation Providers

Shorter fulfillment cycles are pushing UPS to expand its fastest package and freight services to new countries.

Among the services that MIT Safetrans provides are the commissioning of MRI machines and ATMs.

Largest US logistics provider to scrutinize vessel-sharing agreements, urges more "resilient" supply chain strategies.

E-commerce and the need for density in trade lanes is pushing expansion of the global network of C.H. Robinson Worldwide, the largest US logistics operator.

Growth in trans-Pacific volumes has been fairly static this year for non-vessel-operating common carriers, but consolidation, new alliances, and Hanjin’s collapse present new opportunities.

TNT's European road network, and its ability to handle profitable palletized freight, will be important to FedEx as it integrates global express operations.

FedEx raised revenue, profit in its first quarter as owner of TNT Express, despite integration costs following acquisition.

Melbourne-based company gives C.H. Robinson Worldwide a direct presence in Australia and New Zealand.

Refinancing saves XPO Logistics money that can be reinvested in "optimizing" its global business.

Technology platform will enable dispatchers and drivers at small companies that contract with the logistics to book loads, assign them to trucks and track vehicles and shipments.

CEVA Logistics posted lower revenue and earnings in the first half.

DSV’s second-quarter profit rose as it “neutralized” the operating deficit of recently acquired UTi Worldwide.

With cost controls, disciplined pricing and a sharp eye on volume margins, XPO Logistics positions LTL for more profitable growth.

XPO's North American LTL operations, the former Con-way, led the company's drive to its first quarterly net profit.

Panalpina’s profit stalled and revenue slumped in the first half.

Kuehne + Nagel managed to grow in a largely stagnant global freight environment.

Shifting focus from acquisitions to profit-building, XPO works to convince investors it will succeed in the long-haul.

UPS partners with SAP to bring 3-D printing to more manufacturing supply chains.

DSV, the Danish trucking and logistics group, posted a slightly higher first-quarter operating profit despite losses incurred by UTi Worldwide.

As e-commerce demands push delivery limits, UPS is expanding its US and global early delivery guarantees for package shippers and customers.

Suggestions that Amazon.com’s forays into air freight and logistics might disrupt the business of traditional package carriers or compete with them are “fantastical,” FedEx founder and Chief Executive Officer Fred Smith said Wednesday. “Let me emphasize I choose this word carefully,” Smith said.

Stronger-than-expected online shipping demand pressured various points in FedEx's transportation network in December, raising volumes on air and ground in the quarter that ended Feb. 29.

XPO Logistics landed a major contract logistics agreement with Trinity Health to operate a distribution network for the Catholic hospital and health care system.

Downturn? Recession? They're not in XPO Logistics' sights this year. The $7.6 billion logistics and transportation company sees e-commerce fueling many of its asset-based and non-asset business segments in North American and Europe.

UPS surmounted peak-season challenges to deliver 692 million packages in its busiest season — a 7 percent increase from the previous year. Big Brown said it expects higher revenue, profits and volumes in 2016, as e-commerce keeps growing.

XPO plans to put the former Con-way Freight's outsourced linehaul work up for bid for the first time in years, part of a broader plan to seek greater savings in its logistics and transportation businesses, chairman and CEO Bradley S. Jacobs said.

Deutsche Bahn is said to be facing growing opposition from the German government to its plan to partially privatize its DB Schenker Logistics unit as part of a broad restructuring to finance growth and cut debt.

A steady influx of e-commerce shipments on the ground gave FedEx lift in the quarter that ended Nov. 30, despite weakness in global trade and faltering U.S. industrial production.

Mergers and acquisitions dominated transportation industry headlines throughout 2015, and the trend is likely to continue into 2016.

A look at how the Top 50 Global Transportation Providers break down by continent and regional revenue.

A 2 percent gain by the world's Top 50 largest transportation service providers in 2014 marked a turnaround after the group’s combined revenue slipped 0.1 percent in 2013.

UPS assumed the top spot on the JOC-SJ Consulting Group list of Top 50 Global Transportation Providers in terms of 2014 revenue, pushing Deutsche Post DHL to the No. 2 position. Of the Top 50, 13 companies are located in North America, 19 in Europe, 16 in the Asia-Pacific region, and one each in India and Australia.

YRC Worldwide drove further into the black in the third quarter, raising net profit at its national and regional less-than-truckload carriers.

Even though global trade growth has slowed, there’s still plenty of opportunity out there as the list of the fastest-growing global transportation providers shows.

Despite softer demand in the North American truckload and ocean shipping markets, C.H. Robinson Worldwide increased freight volume, net revenue and net profit in the third quarter.

Union pilots at UPS authorized a strike if their leaders fail to wrest concessions in contract talks, but any labor action would face major obstacles and delays.

UPS has announced rate increases effective Dec. 28, 2015 that will raise costs for shippers using the services of the world’s second-largest transportation provider.

The world's second-largest transport operator is adding more than 41,000 postal codes to its international guaranteed package service, expanding its delivery footprint in Asia and other regions.

XPO's experience with Norbert Dentressangle, a major logistics company and truck operator in Europe, informed its decision to buy Con-way and operate a "blended capacity mix" of owned, contracted and independent trucks and carriers, Chairman and CEO Bradley S. Jacobs said.

XPO Logistics plans to buy $5.8 billion Con-way, the parent of LTL giant Con-way Freight, Menlo Logistics and Con-way Truckload.