Name: Menlo Worldwide Forwarding 

Address: 1 Lagoon Drive, Suite 400  

City: Redwood City  State: California

Phone Number: 650-596-9600   

CEO:  John Williford

Products: Logistics  

Employees: 15,000  Year Founded: 2001 

        Menlo Worldwide Forwarding, formerly known as Emery Forwarding, has upgraded its logistics facility in Otay Mesa , Calif. that provides full transportation, logistics and warehousing capabilities to support the important U.S. – Mexico trade.

        Modernizing the facility’s functionality and upgrading security is a part of Menlo Worldwide Forwarding’s C-TPAT compliance plan. This plan included increasing the warehouse space and installing additional warehouse racks, which provided more cubic feet of storage space. The facility opened two years ago as part of the strategic expansion of the company’s operations to include services for Mexico and the NAFTA trade. Menlo Worldwide Forwarding is one of the Menlo Worldwide group of supply chain service providers. Menlo Worldwide is a $2.7 billion subsidiary of CNF Inc.

        “The Otay Mesa Logistics Complex, which is located just south of San Diego , provides Menlo Worldwide Forwarding with a significant competitive advantage as a logistics warehouse and gateway from Mexico to and from Asia , and as a southwest regional hub,” said Randy Stanley, vice president, Americas for Menlo Worldwide. “The Otay Mesa complex has advanced infrastructure and easy access to our San Diego facility, our Los Angeles regional hub and gateway, and to the ports of Long Beach and Ensenada . In addition, the facility is located within minutes of the Tijuana border crossing.”

        Services offered at the newly renovated Otay Mesa facility include U.S./Mexico customs brokerage services, ocean services, cross border transportation, intra-Mexico door-to-door pickup and delivery, inventory replenishment and fulfillment capabilities, expedited transportation into and out of Mexico , multiple carrier management and air freight services. Through Menlo Worldwide Trade Services, which has customs brokerage offices in more than 70 locations throughout North America and along the U.S./Canada and U.S./Mexico borders, it will also offer customized trade solutions. These solutions include origin-to-destination shipment visibility on the web for consignments routed via any forwarder or carrier, export/import compliance program management, tariff management, consulting and compliance training programs.

        With more than 30 years of operational experience in Mexico , Menlo Worldwide Forwarding has facilities and offices in Guadalajara , Mexico City, Monterrey , Chihuahua , Aguascalientes , Querétaro , Veracruz , Mérida and Leon . With the addition of a new expanded economy service in Mexico , the additional markets served are: Tijuana/Otay Mesa, Mexicali , Hermosillo , Nuevo Laredo , Reynosa/Matamoros, San Luis Potosí , Celaya/Guanajuato, Tlaxcala, Cuernavaca , Toluca and Puebla . Menlo Worldwide Forwarding offers its complete range of services along with those of other Menlo Worldwide supply chain service providers.

        Menlo also announced the opening of a new office serving the Port of Manzanillo — Mexico ’s busiest and largest Pacific port that strategically links Mexico to 74 countries throughout the world. The new office will offer Menlo Worldwide Forwarding’s complete range of global forwarding services, as well as logistics and supply chain management services. Menlo Forwarding has appointed Cesar Colin to manage the Manzanillo facility.

        The Port of Manzanillo is 300 kilometers west of Guadalajara and services 15 states in Mexico . It is located next to Jalisco, which has more than 130 maquiladora plants, as well as a host of major companies representing a wide swath of industries.

        “Menlo Worldwide’s unparalleled depth of experience and reservoir of operational knowledge is unsurpassed in Mexico ,” said Ron Young, Menlo Worldwide Forwarding’s vice president, Latin America . “The opening of our Port of Manzanillo office, the opening of our Veracruz facility last year, and the continued expansion of our economy service into key markets throughout Mexico amply demonstrates Menlo Worldwide Forwarding’s unswerving commitment to meet and exceed our customers’ growing global supply chain needs.”

        “The introduction of scheduled overnight air services from Menlo Worldwide Forwarding’s hub in Dayton, Ohio to key Mexican markets in the mid-90’s enabled us to provide time definite, critical overnight forwarding services to Mexico’s major industrial sectors, including the automotive, contract manufacturing, consumer electronics, apparel and retail textiles and pharmaceutical industries,” said Gilberto Rivera, division manager for Menlo Worldwide Forwarding in Mexico. “Menlo Worldwide Forwarding’s expanding Mexican network is an ideal conduit to all the major ocean lanes in Europe , Asia and the Americas .”

        Founded in December 2001 through the combination of Emery Worldwide, Menlo Logistics and Vector SCM, Menlo Worldwide possesses a broad range of services and expertise and a geographical scope that is unmatched in the supply chain management and transportation industries. As a leader in global logistics, transportation, freight forwarding, customs brokerage and supply chain management, Menlo Worldwide works on a global basis to provide customers a beneficial link between their bottom line results and how they engineer success through their operations. Its customers are primarily in the manufacturing, industrial, and retail industries.

        Menlo Worldwide Forwarding provides value-added supply chain services focusing on the movement of heavyweight freight for commercial, industrial and government customers worldwide. Building on a foundation of more than 55 years’ experience, Menlo Worldwide Forwarding’s services include:

        •Air freight forwarding in over 200 countries.

        •Global ocean freight services, including LCL, FCL, and charter.

        •Overnight air cargo services in North America .

        •Second-day and economy air and ground shipments in North America .

        •Emergency and expedited shipments, including charters.

        •Project management.

        •Logistics services.

        •Industry solutions.

        Menlo Worldwide, with 2002 revenues of $2.8 billion, is one of two principal operating companies owned by CNF Inc. CNF is a market leader in the supply chain management industry and a $4.8 billion global enterprise. Menlo Worldwide has approximately 15,000 staff in 600 locations, across 200 countries. CNF’s other principal component company is Con-Way Transportation Services. CNF has consistently been a service, sales and profit pacesetter and a benchmark stock on the Dow Jones Transportation Average for more than a quarter century.