It is easy to forget the own-account operators who are primarily moving goods produced by their companies. Over the last decade or more third party logistics companies have been trying to persuade own-account operators to give up and instead move to 3PLs.
But a interesting report from logistics research company Analytiqua shows that not only are in-house logistics companies recording greater revenue per head than that of their 3PL counterparts, it also re improving on key performance indicators at a slightly greater rate than 3ls and increasing profits at a greater rate (although how you work out the profit of an own-account operation can be difficult because the distribution arms figures are included within the total company results.

As we (sort of) predicted just a few weeks ago - Christian Salvesen is being lined up for a takeover.