Mergers drive rapid expansion among the world's largest logistics service providers, but organic growth is what produces financial success.

The world's largest logistics service providers expand their offerings and continue to enlarge their businesses through acquisitions, geographic expansion, and organic growth, as well as good old-fashioned price increases.

An elite group of just 25 3PLs increasingly dominate logistics outsourcing around the world, and that is just how their customers like it. This closed club promises to become even more exclusive in the years ahead as acquisitions concentrate the power among fewer but larger 3PLs.