# Expeditors

> Expeditors is a publicly traded global freight forwarder and customs broker that purchases carrier capacity and coordinates transportation, compliance, warehousing, and supply-chain operations for businesses. It combines local specialists with shared information systems rather than owning the ships, aircraft, or trucks used to move its customers’ goods.

- **Founded:** 1979
- **Headquarters:** Bellevue, United States
- **Founders:** Peter Rose (Co-founder; President and CEO from 1988 to 2013), James Wang (Co-founder), Kevin Walsh (Co-founder), Hank Wong (Co-founder), George Ho (Co-founder), Robert Chiarito (Co-founder), Glenn Alger (Co-founder)
- **Products:** Air freight, Ocean freight, Customs brokerage, Warehousing and distribution, Transcon
- **Notable:** Public since 1984; currently trades on NYSE as EXPD., Entered the Fortune 500 in 2006., Received Nissan’s Logistics Business Expansion Award in May 2017.

## Products & services

- **Air freight** — Purchases airline cargo capacity and consolidates shipments; arranges routing and delivery.
- **Ocean freight** — Full-container and less-than-container shipping, forwarding, consolidation, and order management.
- **Customs brokerage** — Prepares declarations, calculates duties and taxes, and coordinates inspections and clearance.
- **Warehousing and distribution** — Inventory management, fulfillment, pick and pack, kitting, returns, and vendor-managed inventory.
- **Transcon** — Domestic and intracontinental ground transportation, including cross-border and time-definite services.
- **Delivery Management** — Actively coordinates container delivery and return; developed from a customer project begun in 2012.
- **EXP.O NOW** — Customer platform for booking, shipment visibility, documents, reporting, and tariff insights.
- **Cargo Signal** — Sensor-based cargo monitoring for location and environmental conditions, supported by continuous monitoring.
- **Tradewin** — Wholly owned trade consulting business addressing import and export compliance.
- **Tradeflow** — Collaborative software applications for international trade management.
- **ECIB cargo insurance** — Cargo insurance and supply-chain risk management services.
- **Aircraft on Ground** — Urgent aviation logistics with continuous support, next-flight-out, trucking, hand-carry, and charter options; expanded in July 2026.

## Achievements

- Public since 1984; currently trades on NYSE as EXPD.
- Entered the Fortune 500 in 2006.
- Received Nissan’s Logistics Business Expansion Award in May 2017.
- Reported $11.069 billion in 2025 revenue.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Announced approximately 230 Washington technology job cuts, reported by GeekWire from a company WARN filing.
- **2026-07** — Expanded global Aircraft on Ground logistics support.
- **2026-08** — Reported Q2 revenue of $3.502 billion and diluted EPS of $2.03; booked a $25 million pretax technology restructuring charge with approximately $50 million in expected annual savings.

## Links

- Website: https://www.expeditors.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/expeditors
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/EXPD_Official
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfE8Aj5mScioVpE2nOBp6tg
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/EXPD_Official
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/expeditorsglobal

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Last updated: 2026-10-02