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East and West Coast Ports to Battle for U.S. Region After Panama Canal Expansion

CH Robinson Transportfolio

In fact, the battleground on which ports compete for customers will likely expand and move several hundred miles west, toward Chicago and Memphis. Of course, cost isn’t the only factor—overall shipping time, flexibility, and reliability matter, too. Robinson, Wide Open: How the Panama Canal Expansion is Redrawing the Logistics Map.

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East and West Coast Ports to Battle for U.S. Region After Panama Canal Expansion

CH Robinson Transportfolio

In fact, the battleground on which ports compete for customers will likely expand and move several hundred miles west, toward Chicago and Memphis. Of course, cost isn’t the only factor—overall shipping time, flexibility, and reliability matter, too. Robinson, Wide Open: How the Panama Canal Expansion is Redrawing the Logistics Map.

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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.