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THE JOURNAL May26
2014 V.15 N.11

OF COMMERCE $15.00

DELIVERING GLOBAL TRADE AND LOGISTICS INTELLIGENCE | SINCE 1827

JOC TOP IMPORTERS & EXPORTERS

WATERS•SOL GROUP MARKETING•BRIDGESTONE AMERICAS

www.joc.com

JOC TOP 100 EXPORTERS IN 2013 U.S. FOREIGN TRADE VIA OCEAN CONTAINER TRANSPORT

RANK JOC TOP 100 EXPORTERS TEUS IN 2013 HEADQUARTERS NOTES
WEBSITE
1 AMERICA CHUNG NAM SECTOR Recovered paper exporter is the primary supplier and sister company to Nine Dragons Paper Industries,
China’s largest containerboard manufacturer. Also exports plastic recyclables, animal feed/grain and,
374,200 City of Industry, Calif. most recently, U.S. wine to China.

www.acni.net

Paper & Plastics/Recyclables; Animal Feed/Grains

2 KOCH INDUSTRIES 213,600 Wichita, Kan. Private U.S. company. Major units include Georgia-Pacific, GP Harmon Recycling and Invista. Acquired
3 INTERNATIONAL PAPER 172,600 www.kochind.com Buckeye Technologies in 2013.

Conglomerate Global paper and packaging company with operations in North America, Europe, Latin America,
Russia, Asia and North Africa. 2012 net sales of $28 billion. The merger to combine IP’s xpedx business-
Memphis to-business distribution business with Unisource is scheduled to close in the third quarter.
www.ipaper.com
Paper/Packaging

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
6 POTENTIAL INDUSTRIES 103,200 www.dupont.com remaining 28 percent of soy-based ingredients company Solae from Bunge in 2012. Sold Performance
Coatings unit to Carlyle Group in February 2013.
Diversified

Wilmington, Calif. Exports paper for recycling, primarily from California and New York-New Jersey to mainland China. Has
www.potential industries.com rail access at recycling facility.

Paper Recyclables

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
were sold in the third quarter of 2011.
Forest/Wood Products

8 tie DELONG 93,400 Clinton, Wis. Family owned company with 15 locations in Wisconsin, Illinois and Ohio. Has grain, fertilizer,
NEWPORT CH INTL. www.delongcompany.com agrichemicals, seed, feed and pet food operations. New 8.8-acre grain export facility at Logistics Park
Kansas City. Transportation unit is DeLco Transport International.
Animal Feed/Grain

93,400 Orange, Calif. A partnership with Canusa Hershman Recycling exports wastepaper, steel scrap and plastics to Asia,
mostly to China. 75 percent of its annual volume is exported.
www.newportchintl.com; www.chrecycling.com

Paper/Metals /Plastics Recyclables

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
up in 2015 and Texas ethylene plant to start up in 2017.
Diversified

11 CARGILL 81,200 Wayzata, Minn. Private U.S. company. Divested stake in global phosphate, potash and nitrogen specialist Mosaic in
12 SIMS METAL MANAGEMENT www.cargill.com May 2011. Scheduled to open a new $100 million cocoa processing plant in Indonesia this year. Owns
13 SHINTECH zero-calorie sweetener Truvia.
Conglomerate

80,700 New York Divested Colorado, Arizona and Nashville operations in 2012. Invested in mixed metal recycler
Chiho-Tiande Group in mainland China. Acquired U.S. Gulf shredder and feeder yards. Rhode Island
www.simsmm.com greenfield facility completed in September 2013.

Metals & Electronics/Recyclables Largest U.S. producer of polyvinyl chloride. Parent is Shin-Etsu Chemical of Japan.

78,400 Houston
www.shintechinc.com

Chemicals

14 BASF NORTH AMERICA 75,400 Florham Park, N.J.
www.basf.us
North American affiliate of BASF SE, based in Ludwigshafen, Germany.
Chemicals-Diversified

15 JC HORIZON 75,200 Arcadia, Calif. Serves the Asia-Pacific recycled paper, metal and plastics markets, primarily China, where it has several
16 MEADWESTVACO offices.
www.jchorizonltd.com

Paper/Metals/Plastics Recyclables

66,100 Richmond, Va. MWV operates in 30 countries and serves customers in more than 100 countries through a network
www.mwv.com of 125 facilities in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. Spun off the consumer and office
products business in a merger with ACCO Brands in May 2012.
Diversified

17 LOUIS DREYFUS COMMODITIES; 65,700 Cordova, Tenn. Cotton merchandising division of Paris-based Louis Dreyfus Group acquired the global cotton operation
of Memphis-based Dunavant Enterprises in 2010.
ALLENBERG COTTON www.ldcom.com/our-business/our-platforms/cotton

Cotton

18 ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND 64,300 Decatur, Ill. This agricultural processor of food ingredients, animal nutrition, biofuel and industrial products has
www.admworld.com 270 processing plants and 470 crop procurement facilities. Owns or leases 2,500 barges, 27,400
railcars, 600 trucks, 1,300 trailers and 52 ships.
Agriculture

19 TRANS COASTAL SUPPLY 61,400 Decatur, Ill. Established in 2007. Markets grains and feed ingredients, primarily to Asia.
60,300 www.transcoastalsupply.com Provides transloading.
20 INTERNATIONAL FOREST
PRODUCTS Animal Feed/Grain

Foxboro, Mass. Part of the privately owned and family operated Kraft Group, which also includes the Rand-Whitney
paper and packaging business, Gillette Stadium, the New England Patriots and the New England
www.ifpcorp.com Revolution soccer team.
Paper/Recyclables

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JOC TOP 100 EXPORTERS IN 2013 U.S. FOREIGN TRADE VIA OCEAN CONTAINER TRANSPORT

RANK JOC TOP 100 EXPORTERS TEUS IN 2013 HEADQUARTERS NOTES
WEBSITE
21 LANSING TRADE GROUP SECTOR Controls nearly 16 million bushels of elevator space. Trades whole grains and oil seeds, feed ingredients
22 CEDARWOOD-YOUNG (ALLAN CO.) and energy products. Has a joint venture with Titan Transloading for transloading frac sand and crude
23 AL DAHRA ACX GLOBAL 54,100 Overland Park, Kan. oil in the Texas Permian Basin.
24 JBS USA www.lansingtradegroup.com
25 GAVILON
26 EXXONMOBIL CHEMICAL Chemicals
27 CELLMARK GROUP
28 tie CATERPILLAR 53,900 Baldwin Park, Calif. Processes more than 1.3 million tons a year of paper, glass, plastics, aluminum, electronics waste and
www.allancompany.com other recyclables in 12 California plants. Markets to 20 countries.
WM RECYCLE AMERICA
30 SCOULAR Paper/Recyclables
31 EASTMAN CHEMICAL
32 ADVANCED STEEL RECOVERY 53,200 Bakersfield Calif. Recently rebranded from ACX Pacific Northwest. Owns and operates hay processing plants in
33 TYSON FOODS www.acxpacific.com Ellensburg, Washington; Stockton and Wilmington, California; and Goldsboro, North Carolina. A
34 ARMY & AIR FORCE member of the Al Dahra Agricultural group of companies of the United Arab Emirates.
Animal Feed/Grain
EXCHANGE SERVICE Owned by Brazil’s JBS Group, an animal protein processing company for food, leather, pet products
35 CYCLE LINK 51,700 Greeley, Colo. and biodiesel products. Owns Swift & Co. and Smithfield Beef Group, and the JBS USA unit owns
36 PROCTER & GAMBLE 75 percent of Pilgrim’s Pride. Has 140 plants worldwide.
37 ANDERSON HAY & GRAIN www.jbssa.com; www.jbs.com.br
38 AJC INTERNATIONAL
39 DOMTAR Refrigerated Meats/Poultry
40 GENESIS RESOURCE ENTERPRISES
51,600 Omaha, Neb. Agriculture, fertilizer and energy commodity management. A former unit of Conagra, thereafter
www.gavilon.com privatized with acquisition by Marubeni in mid-2012. Union Elevator and Warehouse in Washington,
Animal Feed/Grain and AgriService of Brazil.

50,200 Houston ExxonMobil subsidiary. The largest U.S. integrated refining-chemical complex at Baytown, Texas,
will expand its premium polyethylene production with a new new multibillion-dollar steam
www.exxonmobilchemical.com cracker.

Chemicals The paper, packaging and recycling divisions are based in the U.S. Only the pulp business is based in
Sweden at parent Cellmark. Sources from 80 countries with sales in 125 countries. Opened a metals
50,000 Norwalk, Conn.; San Rafael, Calif. and a chemical division.
www.cellmark.com

Paper/Paper Products/Recyclables

47,200 Peoria, Ill. Manufactures construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas
www.caterpillar.com turbines and diesel electric locomotives.

Mfg-Machinery

47,200 Houston A national network of paper, plastics, glass, metals and electronics recycling. Subsidiary of Waste
www.recycleamerica.com Management offers collection, transfer, recycling, resource recovery, and disposal services. U.S.
developer, operator and owner of waste-to-energy and landfill gas-to-energy facilities.
Diversified/Recycler

44,500 Omaha, Neb. Privately held, employee-owned food, feed and renewable fuel agricultural products marketing
43,200 www.scoular.com company. NVOCC and forwarder TSC Container Freight is a separate division.
Agriculture/Foodstuffs

Kingsport, Tenn. Acquired Genovique Specialties plasticizer product lines in 2010. In 2011, divested the PET and
www.eastman.com performance polymers businesses and acquired Sterling, Scandiflex, Dynaloy and TetraVitae
Chemicals/Fibers/Plastics Biosciences. Acquired performance materials and specialty chemicals maker Solutia in mid-2012.

42,700 Fontana, Calif. Privately owned company automates the containerization of industrial scrap steel and nonferrous
www.advancedsteel.com metals through its patented FASTek machinery invention. Full-service pickup, processing and direct mill
delivery. Offers client online inventory, removal and payment tracking.
Metals/Recyclables

41,400 Springdale, Ark. Processes and markets beef, poultry and pork and produces prepared food products. In-country poultry
38,800 www.tysonfoods.com operations in Mexico, Brazil, India and China.
Refrigerated Meats/Poultry

Dallas The military retailer operates more than 3,100 facilities in the U.S. and worldwide. Funded solely
through its sales, it sells at low price via on-base locations as well as an online and mobile exchange at
www.shopmyexchange.com www.shopmyexchange.com to authorized customers.
Retail

37,400 Diamond Bar, Calif. Primarily handles recovered paper since 2007. Sourcing services for recovered fibers, plastics and
www.cyclelink.com metals. Has offices in Japan, the U.K., the Netherlands and mainland China.

Recyclables

36,800 Cincinnati 176-year-old company with sales in 180 countries. Sold snack business, including Pringles, to Kellogg
www.pg.com in May 2012.
Mfg-Consumer Products

36,200 Ellensburg, Wash Works with a network of family owned farms. Exports hay and straw products from Washington,
34,800 www.anderson-hay.com Oregon and its Wilmington, California, processing plant to Asia.

Animal Feed

Atlanta Private meat, poultry, fruit, vegetable and seafood distributor. Specialty is refrigerated foods under its
www.ajcfood.com own brands. Owns AJC Logistics, operates warehouses, offers breakbulk chartered refrigerated vessel
Food/Refrigerated services.

34,300 Fort Mill, S.C.; Montreal North American manufacturer and distributor based in Montreal. Approximately 80 percent of the
www.domtar.com business in paper/pulp. Acquired Attends Healthcare with manufacturing in Georgia and North
Carolina in 2011.
Paper /Forest Products

34,000 Springfield, N.J. Exports paper for recycling to Asia, primarily to mainland China via the Port of
N/A New York-New Jersey.

Paper/Recyclables

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