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Carriers Miss the Mark | Diversions Won’t Wait | Rx for Air Freight | Shippers Riding High May26 2014 V.15 N.11 THE JOURNAL $15.00 OFDELIVERING GLOBAL TRADECOMMERCE AND LOGISTICS INTELLIGENCE | SINCE 1827 AMERICA CHUNG NAM • KOCH INDUSTRIES • INTERNATIONAL PAPER • DENISON INTERNATIONAL • DUPONT • POTENTIAL INDUSTRIES • WEYERHAEUSER • DELONG • NEWPORT CH INTL. • DOW CHEMICAL • CARGILL • SIMS METAL MANAGEMENT • SHINTECH • BASF NORTH AMERICA • JC HORIZON • MEADWESTVACO • LOUIS DREYFUS COMMODITIES ALLENBERG COTTON • ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND• TRANS COASTAL SUPPLY• INTERNATIONAL FOREST PRODUCTS • LANSING TRADE GROUP • CEDARWOOD-YOUNG (ALLAN CO.) • AL DAHRA ACX GLOBAL• JBS USA• GAVILON • EXXONMOBIL CHEMICAL• CELLMARK GROUP • CATERPILLAR • WM RECYCLE AMERICA • SCOULAR • EASTMAN CHEMICAL • ADVANCED STEEL RECOVERY • TYSON FOODS • ARMY & AIR FORCE EXCHANGE SERVICE • CYCLE LINK • PROCTER & GAMBLE • ANDERSON HAY & GRAIN • AJC INTL. • DOMTAR • GENESIS RESOURCE ENTERPRISES • RAYONIER WAL-MART STORES • TARGET • HOME DEPOT • LOWE’S • DOLE FOOD • SEARS HOLDING • CHIQUITA BRANDS INTERNATIONAL • HEINEKEN USA • SAMSUNG AMERICA • PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NORTH AMERICA • LG JOC ERS GROUP • IKEA INTERNATIONAL TOP IM •P ONIKERTER S• &J.C. 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By Marsha Salisbury, Chris Brooks and Bill Mongelluzzo JOC Top 100 Importers & Exporters Ranking THE STANDARD IN TRADE INTELLIGENCE TABLE OF CONTENTS About The Journal of Commerce . 1. About PIERS . 1 About the JOC Top 100 . .2 . JOC Top 100 Exporters . .3 . JOC Top 100 Importers . .8 . Shipper Outlook . 13 Carriers Miss the Mark . 15. Shippers Prepare for ‘What If’ . 17. JOC Survey Results . .21 . Learn More . .24 . +1.800.952.3839 | www.joc.com | www.piers.com © Copyright JOC Group Inc. 2014 JOC Top 100 Importers & Exporters Ranking THE STANDARD IN TRADE INTELLIGENCE About Us THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE The Journal of Commerce, founded in 1827, is the leading provider of business intelligence for international logistics professionals. Each bi-weekly issue of The Journal of Commerce delivers authoritative editorial content, unique insight and For more expertise to enable subscribers to make better business decisions. Through news, analysis, in-depth features and data, the team of veteran Journal of Commerce information visit transportation journalists provide readers with the actionable information they www.JOC.com need to develop successful strategies and effectively navigate day-to-day international logistics challenges. JOC subscribers are supply chain management and transportation logistics professionals, including shippers, carriers, logistics providers, freight brokers, forwarders and other logistics service providers. Subscribers receive the bi-weekly Journal of Commerce magazine including special reports on key topics including capacity, freight rates, compliance, container shipping, intermodal, technology and more – covering all modes of transportation including truck, rail, air and ocean. PIERS PIERS remains the only comprehensive database of U.S. waterborne import and export shipments. We process over 17 million U.S. bills of ladings each year (including 4 million export bills of lading) through our unique Six Step Process and make it available to thousands of subscribers globally. Thanks to our unique For more infrastructure, which includes onsite port staff who have the ability to manually information visit scan every export Bill of Lading, PIERS can proudly say we are the only source for www.PIERS.com complete U.S. export transactions. Complementing our U.S. trade intelligence, our international trade data reports on import and export transactions in emerging markets such as Mexico (including U.S. cross-border shipments), China, Brazil, India and most of South America. +1.800.952.3839 | www.joc.com | www.piers.com 1 © Copyright JOC Group Inc. 2014 JOC Top 100 Importers & Exporters Ranking THE STANDARD IN TRADE INTELLIGENCE About the JOC Top 100 The Journal of Commerce’s annual Top 100 Importers and Exporters ranking begins with data from PIERS that is then enhanced by information gathered from other industry sources. The figures are expressed in 20-foot equivalent units, or These rankings TEUs, the most common standard measurement of containerized ocean shipping. represent our best One standard 40-foot ocean container equals two TEUS. approximation of the total The lists are restricted to shippers — beneficial cargo owners of containerized international cargo that entered or exited U.S. ports by ocean vessel during 2013. The statistics oceanborne do not include shippers associations, carriers, non-vessel-operating common shipments by these companies and their carriers, forwarders or brokers, third-party logistics providers, banks or “to-order” subsidiaries. negotiable bills of lading, or data falling under privacy strictures. International imports and exports into and out of the U.S. via air, rail or truck are not included. These rankings represent our best approximation of the total international oceanborne shipments by these companies and their subsidiaries. On to the rankings. 2 +1.800.952.3839 | www.joc.com | www.piers.com 2 © Copyright JOC Group Inc. 2014 JOC TOP 100 EXPORTERS IN 2013 U.S. FOREIGN TRADE VIA OCEAN CONTAINER TRANSPORT HEADQUARTERS WEBSITE RANK JOC TOP 100 EXPORTERS TEUS IN 2013 SECTOR NOTES 1 AMERICA CHUNG NAM 374,200 City of Industry, Calif. Recovered paper exporter is the primary supplier and sister company to Nine Dragons Paper Industries, www.acni.net China’s largest containerboard manufacturer. Also exports plastic recyclables, animal feed/grain and, Paper & Plastics/Recyclables; Animal Feed/Grains most recently, U.S. wine to China. 2 KOCH INDUSTRIES 213,600 Wichita, Kan. Private U.S. company. Major units include Georgia-Pacific, GP Harmon Recycling and Invista. Acquired www.kochind.com Buckeye Technologies in 2013. Conglomerate Global paper and packaging company with operations in North America, Europe, Latin America, 3 INTERNATIONAL PAPER 172,600 Memphis www.ipaper.com Russia, Asia and North Africa. 2012 net sales of $28 billion. The merger to combine IP’s xpedx business- Paper/Packaging to-business distribution business with Unisource is scheduled to close in the third quarter. 4 DENISON INTERNATIONAL 112,700 Diamond Bar, Calif. Exports paper for recycling mainly to mainland China via California ports and the Port of New York- N/A New Jersey. Paper/Recyclables 5 DUPONT 105,100 Wilmington, Del. Operates in more than 90 countries. Acquired food ingredients company Danisco in 2011 and www.dupont.com remaining 28 percent of soy-based ingredients company Solae from Bunge in 2012. Sold Performance Diversified Coatings unit to Carlyle Group in February 2013. 6 POTENTIAL INDUSTRIES 103,200 Wilmington, Calif. www.potential industries.com Exports paper for recycling, primarily from California and New York-New Jersey to mainland China. Has Paper Recyclables rail access at recycling facility. 7 WEYERHAEUSER 98,400 Federal Way, Wash. Timberlands and wood products company converted to a real estate investment trust in 2010. Owns www.weyerhaeuser.com 6 million acres of timberlands in the U.S. The hardwood operations and Westwood Shipping Lines Forest/Wood Products were sold in the third quarter of 2011. 8 tie DELONG 93,400 Clinton, Wis. Family owned company with 15 locations in Wisconsin, Illinois and Ohio. Has grain, fertilizer, www.delongcompany.com agrichemicals, seed, feed and pet food operations. New 8.8-acre grain export facility at Logistics Park Animal Feed/Grain Kansas City. Transportation unit is DeLco Transport International. NEWPORT CH INTL. 93,400 Orange, Calif. A partnership with Canusa Hershman Recycling exports wastepaper, steel scrap and plastics to Asia, www.newportchintl.com; www.chrecycling.com Paper/Metals /Plastics Recyclables mostly to China. 75 percent of its annual volume is exported. 10 DOW CHEMICAL 88,100 Midland, Mich. Diversified portfolio of specialty chemical, advanced materials, agrosciences and plastics businesses. www.dow.com Owns Rohm & Haas. Received $2.16 billion from K-Dow arbitration. New Texas propylene plant to start Diversified up in 2015 and Texas ethylene plant to start up in 2017. 11 CARGILL 81,200 Wayzata, Minn. Private U.S. company. Divested stake in global phosphate, potash and nitrogen specialist Mosaic in www.cargill.com May 2011. Scheduled to open a new $100 million cocoa processing plant in Indonesia this year. Owns Conglomerate zero-calorie sweetener Truvia. 12 SIMS METAL MANAGEMENT 80,700 New York Divested Colorado, Arizona and Nashville operations in 2012. Invested in mixed metal recycler www.simsmm.com