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They're right about experience being the best teacher. We're
living proof. In our 100-plus years, DF Young has learned every lesson international
logistics has to offer. The most important one? To put our entire focus on
you, the customer.
That's why you won't hear us describing our work as business-to-business.
It's pure person-to-person. Looking at the world through fresh eyes means
seeing each customer individually, each challenge as unique. That sums up
our corporate culture for you. A culture reinforced by people trained to
scrutinize and study every angle, to create solutions that solve the problem
by being perfectly suited to it. Customers have been known to raise an
eyebrow. They soon raise their expectations. It's reassuring once you find
out there's no place we can't go, nothing we can't move, no
situation that can thwart us.
One of our long-tenured logistics managers passed on this comment by a
Fortune 100 manufacturer who uses our services on a regular basis. "The
way
you guys go overboard to get things done for me...it leaves me with the
feeling afterwards that you one-upped yourselves again."
Relationships like that mean everything to us. We have earned more than our
fair share of them. Which should mean a lot to you. Many DF Young customers
have been with us for decades. Several for more than half a century. They
have good reason.
Headed by President and CEO Wesley Wyatt IV,
DF Young is a customer-driven, full-service international freight
forwarder
and customs house broker with a global presence. The company's
services include, but are not limited to air services; ocean services;
ground transportation; customs brokerage; order management; security
management; documentation and e-Logistics.
DF Young has five dedicated business units that offer integrated
logistics services in the following areas:
Automotive
For over 85 years, DF Young has provided logistics services to the
top automotive manufacturers in North America, South America, Europe,
Japan and Australia. The company maintains close relationships with
the world's largest Ro/Ro carriers in support of its international
automotive clientele. DF Young regularly handles personalized, complex
logistics requests, as well as prototype and exhibition vehicle shipments,
completely knocked down and semi-knocked down shipments and built-up
vehicle shipments.
Commercial
Working with a host of multi-national corporations, DF Young has
earned a reputation for its skilled handling of commercial logistics
requirements, from specific needs to full supply chain management.
DF Young provides a full array of front and back end services specifically
designed to support multi-national manufacturing firms, international
distributors, retailers and wholesalers, as well as small and medium-sized
firms just entering the global arena.
Petrochemical
DF Young has provided a full array of logistics services to the petrochemical
industries for many years. The company routinely takes care of import
and export needs for multinational oil and gas companies as well
as works with petrochemical manufacturing companies, handling the
distribution of oil well supplies and project cargoes that are purchased
and shipped to customers worldwide. DF Young operates a full service
warehouse located in Houston, Texas, offering item level material
checking, consolidation, container loading, skidding and palletizing,
packing and crating, reel lagging and recouping.
Foreign Military
Sales
DF Young has been handling the logistics and shipping requirements
for foreign military sales since the inception of the U.S. Government
Security Assistance Program. Working with participating foreign countries,
DF Young offers full service support for all of their material handling
and shipping requirements. The company serves as liaison between
foreign governments and the U.S. military. Once an order is placed
and the U.S. Government issues a notice of availability, DF Young
secures all required licenses, prepares documentation and arranges
the necessary land, sea or air transport. DF Young services logistics
of Apache Helicopters, M-60, M1-A1 and M1-A2 Main Battle Tanks, Patriot
Air Defense Systems and more.
Humanitarian Cargo
DF Young was one of the world’s first companies providing
humanitarian cargo and food/relief aid on a global scale. Working
closely with
international relief groups and U.S. government agencies, DF Young
handles accurate computer record-keeping, complete documentation
and logistics problem solving. The company tenders and procures
food aid cargoes, freight number estimates and commodity pricing,
booking
and contracting with carriers (U.S. and Foreign Flag), customs
clearances, warehousing, and small commercial contracts and liner
parcel shipments.
As an innovator in value-added, customized logistics solutions, DF
Young gives its customers access to leading edge technologies for
complete awareness. With e-Logistics, visibility solutions provide
a real time view of customers’ entire global supply chains,
accessible from the Internet. DF Young’s unique visibility
solutions are fully integrated with their tracking technology to
provide a drill down effect when viewing the global supply chain.
With total real time technology solutions, supply chain events are
immediately visible in DF Young’s e-Logistics solutions.
DF Young’s commitment to customer solutions is also supported
by the company’s key performance indicator measurement and
reporting tools. These tools enable real time quality performance
snapshots, as well as detailed quality performance exception reports.
Another innovative
technology DF Young offers is the Document Management System, which
enables the rapid distribution of all documentation, ensuring the
timely flow of documentation throughout the supply chain. High quality
documentation can be referenced, distributed, printed or researched
on demand from anywhere in the world.
For over 100 years, DF Young has serviced global Fortune 500 companies
and small businesses alike. For more information, please visit www.dfyoung.com.
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