Business View Magazine | February 2019

Transportation Co. Ltd., a Japanese 3PL logistics firm specializing in brokerage, freight forwarding,ware- housing, and terminal operations worldwide.We added offices in Seattle in 1992,Detroit in 1996, and Chicago in 1998.To further expand our ser- vice in the U.S. and throughout Europe,we opened offices in Rotterdam in 1999, and Amsterdam and NewYork in 2000. “Our Miami branch office opened in 2001 to serve shippers and consignees to and from South and Central America. In 2009,we opened Houston,Dal- las, and Atlanta offices, adding more U.S. coverage. In 2014, ClearFreight acquired a Chinese firm and expanded our operations into Asia and Canada, with offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing,Qin- gdao, Shenzhen, Guangzhou,Dalian, and Xiamen, and Toronto,Ontario (our first Canadian location, operating under ClearFreight Canada Inc.). In 2018, we opened our first Latin America office in San- tiago, Chile.And we’re looking to open in Taiwan. So, while we’re not a multinational,we have the entire U.S. covered pretty well.Oddly enough, in 2015 we became,with all our subsidiaries, larger than the parent company. Since I started in 1988,we’ve grown from two offices and 45 employees to 28 offices and about 350 people.” BVM: What differentiates you from the competi- tion? Reynolds: “The biggest difference is our experi- ence and tenure. I just finished my 30th year and I’m the junior of our senior management.My boss has been here 38 years.The people who work for me have done so for 20 to 25 years.That’s unheard of in most companies.And it’s an important factor because it’s annoying for shippers or exporters or importers to keep educating new people at a com- pany. Each need is very specific; you just get these people trained and, if they’re with multinationals, 251