News / KN gets toehold in US perishables market – is buying a local player the next move?

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A foray by Kuehne + Nagel into the perishables market in the US has ruffled few, if any, feathers.

The multinational forwarder announced at the end of January that it had struck an agency agreement with Los Angeles-based Commodity Forwarders Inc (CFI), one of the leading perishables specialists in the US.

The deal goes some way towards closing a strategic gap for KN. Its global perishables network has lacked a presence in the US that would extend to the US-Asia tradelane. In ...