Expeditors

Expeditors is a global logistics company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. As a Fortune 500 company, they employ over 13,000. As a Fortune 500 company, we employ over 14,600 trained professionals in a worldwide network of over 250 locations across six continents. Expeditors satisfy the increasingly sophisticated needs of international trade through customized solutions and seamless, integrated information systems. Our services include the consolidation and forwarding of air or ocean freight, customs brokerage, vendor consolidation, cargo insurance, time-definite transportation, order management, warehousing, distribution and customized logistics solutions. 

At Expeditors, we pride ourselves on being a solutions-based organization and take time to understand each customer's individual business needs. As a non-asset-based organization, we have considerable flexibility when managing customers' supply chains. Due to our relationships with local suppliers and global air and ocean partners, we can provide customers with the best routing and pricing options. Our comprehensive, flexible spectrum of services is supported by leading-edge information technology that provides a high level of visibility from end to end. To maintain consistent quality and customer service across the globe, Expeditors has regional headquarters located in London, Dubai, Shanghai and Singapore.

1984: Sandwiched in between these two diversifying moves was Expeditors' initial public offering, which was completed in September and yielded the company the financial resources to expand its operations on a worldwide basis. In the wake of the 1984 conversion to public ownership, Expeditors grew vigorously, adding sales offices in the Far East, where the company first had distinguished itself, and by branching out into other overseas markets.

1986: The company entered the expansive European market, with an office in London, and continued to flesh out its network of foreign offices as the decade progressed.

1987: Inc. magazine ranked Expeditors as one of the 100 fastest-growing companies in the United States and other testaments to the company's prolific growth were soon to follow.

1988: Sales had been increasing at a rate of more than 50 percent during the previous five years, fueled by the business garnered from clients such as Apple Computer, IBM, Nike, and Motorola who helped Expeditors generate nearly $150 million that year.

1991: The company opened an office in Kuwait and placed representatives in offices in Istanbul, Cairo, Athens, and Dubai.

1994: Expeditors moved resolutely forward with its expansion program, opening two new sales offices each in Sweden, Spain, and South Africa early in the year.

2009: This was also a big year for our Environmental Teams worldwide as they work on green initiatives across the Company; a sustainable, green office was built in Frankfurt for our German Regional Headquarters.

2015: The first quarter is the most profitable in the history of the company.

2017: A year of strong innovation, was kicked off with the appointment of a Chief Strategy Officer to establish and oversee a Strategy group of highly experienced individuals to explore new areas of opportunity.

To exceed customers' expectations through excellence in global logistics. And we're unwavering in our commitment to that mission.

We believe in doing more than what may be asked to lead with insight and vision that manage the evolving needs of our clients and our company.