BDP International Inc

Industry:	Freight & Logistics Services
Revenues:	$104.2 Million
Employees:	1,100

Description

BDP International and its subsidiaries serve more than 4,000 customers worldwide.

Chemical companies provide 60 percent of BDP's business, with consumer goods, electronics and general cargo providing the rest.

Most of BDP's clients are leading multi-national corporations in the chemical industry who outsource their chemical logistics on long-term contracts. Huels cited some of BDP's long-term major clients as DuPont, Dow Chemical, Eastman, Ethyl, Witco, Sartomer and BP.

The company's competitive strength, according to Huels, lies in its staff's intimate knowledge of the international chemical supply chain, and its heavy investment in IT to help staff and customers manage product flows.

"After nine years of operations in China, we started to understand how logistics infrastructure works here. We see China as a very special place for us since lots of customers started to set up plants in this fast growing market," Huels said.

"One of our long term goals is to build a nation-wide network so that multinational companies from overseas can use us to distribute their goods to every province of China," he added.

China's logistics infrastructure is still very much a work in progress, according to Huels. But it is being developed so rapidly that spending on logistics in China, as a percentage of gross domestic product, is approximately twice that of the US.

"One of the challenges is to understand the different regulations in different regions within China since the Chinese market is changing all the time. We try to find skilled people who understand our business and also can speak good English," he said.

Huels said BDP's staff knows the conditions in the country that they operate in and have contacts in the government and private companies who are relevant to the process.

"We use our global expertise with local knowledge," he said. "We don't own the assets, but we know how to deploy the assets available to us and the contacts to manage the whole process."

BDP International is one of the leading privately held freight logistics/ transportation management firms in the US. It operates freight logistics centers in more than 20 cities throughout North America and has a network of subsidiaries, joint ventures and strategic partnerships in 113 countries.

By design, the company continuously refines the global network to help its clients reach new markets and achieve greater efficiency in their supply chains.

BDP provides a range of services, including ocean, air and ground transportation; fourth party logistics, lead logistics process analysis, design and management; export freight forwarding; import customs, brokerage and regulatory compliance; project logistics; warehousing / consolidation / distribution; and Internet shipping transaction/tracking management systems.

Products & Services

logistics, transportation services, freight forwarding, supply chain management solutions, shipping services

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