---Business Overview: UPS is the world's largest courier organization, the world's largest parcel delivery company, but also a major professional transportation and logistics service provider in the world. Every working day, the company delivers parcels to 1.8 million customers and the number of recipients is up to 6 million. The company's primary operations are within the United States and in more than 200 other countries and territories. The company has built a large and trusted global transportation infrastructure, developed a comprehensive, competitive and guaranteed portfolio of services, and continually leverages advanced technologies to support these services. The company offers logistics services, including integrated supply chain management.
---Business Distribution: UPS's business revenue shows different distribution characteristics according to regions and modes of transportation. From the regional point of view, the U.S. domestic business accounted for 89% of the total revenue, Europe and Asia business accounted for 11%. In terms of mode of transportation, domestic overland transportation accounted for 54%, domestic air transportation accounted for 19%, domestic delayed transportation accounted for 10%, foreign transportation accounted for 9%, and non-parcel business accounted for 4%.
---Dynamics: On January 10, 2001, UPS acquired California Logistics, a subsidiary of the Fritz Group of Companies, by issuing $433 million worth of new stock and integrating the company into UPS's expanding logistics business, making it a larger transportation group. on November 28, 2000, UPS increased its weekly round-the-world flights from On November 28, 2000, UPS increased its weekly round-the-world flights from three to five to handle the growing number of cross-country shipments, and the total amount of freight UPS moves on this route grew by 200,000 pounds per day.
---2. FedEX
-Business Overview:FedEX Corporation, formerly known as FDX Corporation, is a provider of worldwide transportation, logistics, e-commerce and supply chain management services. The company provides integrated business solutions to its customers through an independent network of subsidiaries. Its subsidiaries include FedEX Express, which operates courier services; FedEX Ground, which operates packaging and ground delivery services; FedEX Custom Critical, which operates high-speed transportation delivery services; FedEX Global, which operates integrated logistics, technology and transportation services; and Viking Freight, a a small transportation company in the western United States).
---Business Distribution: In terms of regions, the U.S. business accounts for 76% of total revenues, while the international business accounts for 24%. In terms of transportation modes, air operations accounted for 83% of total revenue, highway 11%, and other 6%.
---DYNAMIC: On January 11, 2001, FedEX will carry special express and courier mail between airports for the U.S. Postal Service system under a contract capable of generating $6.3 billion in revenue. Over the next 18 months, FedEX will pay the Postal Service between $126 million and $132 million to set up drop boxes at 10,000 post offices and retain the right to set up drop boxes at the remaining 38,000 post offices. These initiatives will result in approximately $900 million in new revenues for the company.On December 29, 2000, FedEX announced plans to acquire 16.38 million shares of American Freightways, Inc. at a price of $28.13 per share, in fulfillment of its initial commitment to acquire a 50.1% stake in the company.
3. Ryder
---Business Overview:Ryder Systems, Inc. provides a range of technologically advanced logistics, supply chain and transportation management services worldwide. The company's product offerings include full-service leasing, commercial leasing, motor vehicle maintenance and integration services. It also provides comprehensive supply chain solutions, cutting-edge logistics management services and e-commerce solutions to support its customers' entire supply chain, from the input of raw materials to the distribution of products.
---Business Distribution: In terms of regions, the U.S. business accounted for 82% of total revenues, while the international business accounted for 18%. In terms of business segments, transportation services accounted for 57%, logistics for 32% and other for 11%.
--Dynamics: On November 20, 2000, Ryder Systems, Inc. formed a joint venture with Toyota (Americas) Corporation and its Japanese parent company, the Toyota Group***, called TTR Logistics, Inc. The new entity, which is equally owned by Ryder and Toyota, will focus primarily on transportation and logistics business opportunities related to Toyota and other Japanese automotive companies in North America.On November 14, 2000, Ryder and From2 Global Solutions, one of the world's leading providers of international logistics technology and trade intelligence to major companies, announced a strategic alliance. announced a strategic alliance in which Ryder Systems will utilize From2's solutions to provide specific international trade services to its customers via the Internet.
--4. TNT Post Group
--Business Overview: TPG provides postal, courier and logistics services in more than 200 countries around the world and owns 50% of Postkantoren, the organization that operates the post offices in the Netherlands. TPG utilizes the TNT brand name to provide courier delivery and logistics services (TNT's logistics business is focused on automotive, high tech and logistics. business is focused on the automotive, high-tech and pan-European sectors), and its logistics area now consists of 137 warehouses on 1.55 million square meters of land***.
---Business segmentation and distribution: By type of business, TPG's three main businesses, mail, courier and logistics (net revenue) account for 42%, 41% and 17% respectively, while in terms of geographic performance (net revenue), Europe accounted for 85%, while Australia, North America, Asia and other regions accounted for 6%, 4%, 2% and 3% respectively. If we look at operating profit, Postal, Courier and Logistics accounted for 76%, 15% and 9% respectively.
---Development: In January 2001, TNT Loop secured an efulfilment contract from Yamaha Motor Europe to provide an online store for Japanese automotive dealers to provide "Back-End" services including handling, warehousing and dispatch. In December 2000, Ctil Logistix merged with TNT Logitics in North America to become the seventh largest logistics company in North America. in November 2000, TPG selected Vivaldi Software as its global CRM system to monitor and improve sales activities and manage customer service operations. in October 2000, TPG entered into an agreement with Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation*** to establish an efulfilment contract. In October 2000, TPG and Shanghai Automotive Industry*** established a third-party logistics joint venture. This $30 million joint venture opened the door for TPG to enter the Chinese automotive logistics market.
---5. Expeditors
---Business Overview: Incorporated in the United States, Expeditors is a global logistics services company that provides its customers with a seamless, international network to support the transportation and strategic placement of commodities. The company's services include air and ocean freight (consolidation services) and freight forwarding. Customs brokerage services are available at each U.S. office and many overseas offices, and additional services include distribution management, consolidation, cargo insurance, order management, and customer-focused logistics information services.
---Business Distribution: In terms of business type, it is mainly concentrated in air transportation, ocean transportation and freight forwarding, accounting for 63%, 25% and 12% respectively according to revenue. And in terms of regional distribution, it is mainly concentrated in the Far East, accounting for 56%, and in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, South America, and Australia, accounting for 25%, 15%, 2%, and 1% of revenue respectively.
---6. Panalpina
---Business Overview:Panalpina is one of the world's largest freight forwarding and logistics groups, with 312 branches in 65 country regions.
Panalpina's core business is integrated transportation, offering services that are integrated, customer-friendly solutions. Through integrated freight services, it positions itself between standardized transport solutions and traditional shippers. In addition to handling traditional freight forwarding, the group specializes in providing logistics services to multinational companies, particularly in the automotive, electronics, telecommunications, oil and energy, and chemicals sectors.
---Air Sea Broker is the Panalpina Group's global freight "wholesaler", which also coordinates the Panalpina Group's ocean freight system with regular connections around the world, and provides new services for combined transportation. Air Sea Broker is organized into three business units: Marine, West Africa, Chartering and Heavy Lifting.
---Swissglobalcargo, a joint venture between Panalpina and Sairlogistics established in July 1999, is the world's first air cargo company to offer fully integrated, door-to-door, time-bound guaranteed, weight-restriction-free air cargo.
---Business Segmentation and Distribution: In terms of total profit, Panalpina's four main businesses, i.e., Air Freight, Ocean Freight, Logistics and Others account for 44.9%, 31.3%, 20.3% and 3.5% respectively. Geographically, the distribution is 52.7% in Europe/Africa, 33.9% in the Americas and 13.4% in Asia Pacific.
---Dynamics: In December 2000, it launched a customer-centric "e-commerce" platform designed to connect all operational phases of its freight forwarding and logistics operations. This "electronic network" provides an "integrated system" that connects both Panalpina's internal facilities and external electronic platforms for its customers.
---7. Exel
---Business Overview: On July 26, 2000, Ocean Group merged with NFC and changed its name to Exel, which is organized into five business units: (Consumer Goods/Retail/Medical) Europe, (Consumer Goods/Retail/Medical) Americas, Development and Development, and (Consumer Goods/Retail/Medical) Americas. /Healthcare) Americas, Development and Automation, Technology and Global Management, and Asia Pacific. The company has 1,300 locations worldwide and more than 50,000 employees. The company's three main operating subsidiaries are Exel (formerly NFC), Msas Global Logistics and Cory Environmental. Msas is one of the world's largest freight forwarders, providing multimodal transportation, regional distribution, inventory control, value-added logistics, information technology and supply chain solutions on a global basis. Environmental is one of the largest scrap handling companies in the U.K. Exel has a strong market position in ground transportation supply chain services, offering services such as warehousing and distribution, transportation management services, customer-focused services, JIT services and global aftermarket logistics services.
---Business Distribution: In terms of business types, Exel is mainly concentrated in three areas, namely distribution, transportation management and environmental services, which account for 58%, 39% and 3% respectively according to net revenues, and 62%, 28% and 10% respectively if classified according to operating profit. Geographically, the business is concentrated in the United Kingdom and Ireland, with operations in the Americas, Continental Europe and Africa, and Asia-Pacific, accounting for 39%, 30%, 21% and 10%, respectively, of net revenues, and 54%, 27%, 10% and 9%, respectively, of operating profit.
--Dynamics: In January 2001, Exel was selected to manage Motorola's distribution of semiconductor products in the U.S., Europe and Asia. The contract is valued at approximately ￡134 million. A 10-year contract was also signed with Mercedes Benz Espana to provide supply chain services, and Exel's Automotive division won a seven-year contract to provide supply chain management services to Sandouvilielear in France. in December 2000, Exel acquired Total Logistics, a regional supply chain management company based in Australia and New Zealand, specializing in supply chain management services to the US. (a regional supply chain management company based in Australia and New Zealand that specializes in providing supply chain management services to more than 30 major pharmaceutical and healthcare companies). In October of the same year, Exel and UPS*** worked together to create a supply network for Ford and a major revamp of Ford's supply chain requirements in Europe.