The awards, which were revealed August 1, are
given out by Logistics Management Magazine.
Winners are selected by the magazine’s readers, who are the buyers of logistics
and transportation services. The 2013 awards recognized 129 top performers,
including carriers, third-party logistic providers and ports.
The survey, which was by invite only, was
conducted by Peerless Research Group. During it, readers evaluated ports using
five criteria: ease of doing business, value, ocean carrier network, intermodal
network, and equipment and operations.
“In order to evaluate a provider, the voter
must have experience with that specific provider at some point over the past 12
months,” Peerless Research Group research director Judd Aschenbrand said. “So,
the Quest for Quality Survey goes beyond name recognition and popularity and is
based on the merits and performance of the service provider.”
Besides its high mark for ease of doing
business, Tacoma ranked second in the West Coast port category in total value,
after the Prince Rupert Port Authority.
Trailing Prince Rupert and Tacoma in the ease
of doing business and value categories were the ports of Seattle, Oakland, Los
Angeles and Long Beach.
In the same survey, Hapag-Lloyd was voted the
best ocean carrier for on-time performance and COSCO was tops in overall value.
The complete list of winners is featured in
the magazine’s August issue and online at http://www.logisticsmgmt.com/article/30th_annual_quest_for_quality_simply_the_best.
