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Expeditors International of Washington helps businesses move goods internationally and clear customs. It does not own aircraft or ships: it buys space from airlines and ocean carriers in bulk, combines customers’ shipments and sells them transportation. Customers pay for the shipment and related services; Expeditors earns the difference between what it charges and what it pays carriers. When customers contract directly with an ocean carrier, it instead earns fees for arranging and handling shipments.
Air and ocean freight together provide most revenue. Customs brokerage and other services form the largest individual revenue category. Expeditors prepares customs filings and arranges duties, inspections and delivery, charging for the scope and complexity of the work. It also earns fees for managing customers’ orders, inventory and distribution.
No single customer supplies a large share of revenue, but Expeditors depends on outside carriers for available space and reliable transport. Shipment demand and the gap between carrier purchase rates and customer charges shape its earnings. Airfreight, ocean-intermediary and customs-brokerage activities require applicable licenses or registrations, and its cross-border work must comply with trade controls and sanctions.
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Expeditors’ results hinge on international shipment volumes and the gap between what shippers pay it and what it pays carriers, with privately held Flexport another forwarding rival to watch outside this list.
C.H. Robinson’s Global Forwarding business competes directly with Expeditors for shippers paying to arrange ocean and air transport and clear customs worldwide. That segment, rather than its North American truck brokerage business, is the part to watch for competition on price and service.
Forward Air’s Omni Logistics business competes with Expeditors for customers paying for air and ocean shipping arrangements, contract logistics and tailored supply-chain services. Omni accounted for approximately half of Forward Air’s consolidated revenue in 2025, making it the business to watch rather than the company’s expedited ground freight alone.
Radiant Logistics, Inc. and Expeditors both arrange air and ocean shipments, customs clearance and distribution without relying on owned transport fleets, earning a margin between shipper charges and carrier payments. Radiant’s margin on arranging customer shipments is the useful comparison—not revenue alone—because it shows what remains after paying transport providers.
RXO, Inc. competes with Expeditors for shippers outsourcing transport management, freight arrangements and customs clearance, although its largest business is placing freight with independent truck carriers. Its managed transportation business, including ocean and air forwarding and customs brokerage, is the closer comparison for Expeditors than truck brokerage overall.
UPS competes with Expeditors for customers paying to arrange freight transport and clear customs, not through its much larger small-package delivery business.
Matson charges customers to carry containers on its expedited China-to-Long Beach services, exposing it to the China–U.S. volumes, shipping capacity and rates that also drive Expeditors’ ocean forwarding; Matson Logistics also competes for forwarding and supply-chain work. Watch news on those China services for changes in container demand and rates relevant to Expeditors’ ocean business.
C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. earningsCHRW
C.H. Robinson's report, especially its Global Forwarding business, will show what shippers are paying and how much freight they are moving through the air and ocean markets where Expeditors also competes.
Look at Global Forwarding's shipment activity alongside its profitability. Rising activity and improving profitability suggest firmer shipper demand and pricing in a market Expeditors also serves; weakening activity or profitability may point to softer demand, tougher price competition, or higher service costs. This is evidence about their shared market, not Expeditors' own results.
Expeditors International of Washington, Inc. earningsThis company
Expeditors' report will show what remains after carrier costs are deducted from air and ocean customer charges, and whether growth in customs brokerage is reaching profit.
Compare air and ocean charges to customers with the related costs paid to carriers. If charges grow faster, Expeditors keeps more from arranging each shipment; if costs rise faster, that spread is under pressure. Then compare customs and other-services revenue with operating income. If both parts of the business convert growth into profit, demand is producing stronger earnings; if revenue rises but profit lags, costs are absorbing the growth.
Matsons, Inc. earningsMATX
Matson's report will show changes in container demand and rates on its China-to-Long Beach services, offering a read on the ocean volumes and carrier costs relevant to Expeditors.
Read Matson's reported China-route container volumes alongside any rate or capacity changes. Stronger demand or tighter capacity could raise ocean carriers' prices and pressure Expeditors' transport costs; weaker demand or looser capacity could ease rate pressure but also signal fewer shipments in the market. Matson's report describes this route, not Expeditors' actual costs or volumes.
Retail Sales MoM (Oct)
Retail sales track how much consumers spend at stores; stronger demand can bring more freight shipments for Expeditors to forward and clear through customs, while weaker demand can mean less customer business and fewer fees.
Stronger retail sales suggest retailers may move more goods, supporting Expeditors’ forwarding and customs-clearance volumes and fees; weaker sales suggest fewer shipments and potentially less customer business. The filing notes that softer retail activity contributed to lower North Asia ocean freight volumes.
