Largest Providers by 2012 Gross Revenues and Freight Forwarding Volumes*
| A&A Rank | Provider | Gross Revenue (US$ Million) | Ocean TEU’s | Airfreight metric tonnes | Exchange & Ticker Symbol |
| 1 | DHL Supply Chain & Global Forwarding | 31,639 | 2,840,000 | 2,327,000 | Through Deutsche Post AG (FRA:DPW) |
| 2 | Kuehne + Nagel | 22,141 | 3,473,000 | 1,093,000 | VTX:KNIN |
| 3 | DB Schenker | 19,789 | 1,905,000 | 1,095,000 | Private (Deutsche Bahn AG) |
| 4 | Sinotrans | 7,523 | 8,237,000** | 417,200 | HKG:0368 |
| 5 | Panalpina | 7,060 | 1,388,000 | 801,000 | SWX:PWTN |
| 6 | Nippon Express | 20,321 | 719,052 | 773,773 | TYO:9062 |
| 7 | CEVA Logistics | 9,290 | 783,378 | 550,000 | Private (Apollo) |
| 8 | Expeditors International | 5,981 | 868,487 | 729,527 | NASDAQ:EXPD |
| 9 | UPS Supply Chain Solutions | 9,147 | 500,000 | 862,000 | Through UPS (NYSE:UPS) |
| 10 | SDV | 7,038 | 770,000 | 510,000 | Through Bollore Group (EPA:BOL) |
| 11 | DSV | 7,759 | 725,806 | 259,057 | CPH:DSV |
| 12 | Kintetsu World Express | 3,155 | 572,000 | 1,072,000 | TYO:9375 |
| 13 | Agility | 4,623 | 550,000 | 490,000 | KSE:AGLTY |
| 14 | Pantos Logistics | 2,601 | 1,765,246 | 231,000 | Private |
| 15 | C. H. Robinson | 11,356 | 500,000 | 95,000 | NASDAQ:CHRW |
| 16 | Hellmann Worldwide Logistics | 3,460 | 672,569 | 383,194 | Private |
| 17 | Damco | 3,272 | 797,700 | 210,600 | Through Maersk (CPH:Maersk) |
| 18 | Kerry Logistics | 2,490 | 804,000 | 289,000 | HKG:0636 |
| 19 | UTi Worldwide | 4,608 | 495,000 | 361,000 | NASDAQ:UTIW |
| 20 | Yusen Logistics | 3,526 | 450,000 | 337,130 | TYO:9370 |
| 21 | Toll Holdings | 6,760 | 484,000 | 119,000 | ASX:TOL |
| 22 | Geodis | 5,868 | 420,000 | 210,000 | Private (SNCF) |
| 23 | Logwin | 1,703 | 500,000 | 155,000 | ETR:TGH |
| 24 | Sankyu | 2,697 | 750,000 | 18,529 | TYO:9065 |
| 25 | BDP International | 1,895 | 117,931 | 53,643 | Private |
*Revenues are company reported or Armstrong & Associates, Inc. estimates and have been converted to US$ using the average exchange rate in order to make non-currency related growth comparisons. Freight forwarders are ranked using a combined overall average based on their individual rankings for gross revenue, ocean freight TEUs and air freight metric tons.
**TEUs shown are a combination of freight forwarding, NVOCC, booking agent and custom broker activities.
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Source: http://www.3plogistics.com/Top_25_Global_FF.htm retrieved 24 May 2014
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