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This Week in Logistics News (April 22 – 28)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. A steep, across-the-board decline in imported cargo , exports and empty containers during March dropped volumes at several major ports to levels not seen since before the COVID-19 pandemic. billion cumulative square feet of flat, sunny rooftop space — or about twice the area of Memphis, Tenn.,

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Third-party logistics companies ( 3PLs ) specialize in distribution, warehousing and fulfillment services. The core competency of these companies is logistics , and they do it well. Even Amazon used third-party logistics companies when the company first started, until reaching sufficient scale to have a logistics arm of its own.