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2/22/2024
J.B. Hunt Transport Providers Inc. introduced that its subsidiary, J.B. Hunt Transport Inc., has entered right into a multi-year intermodal service settlement with Walmart, in an association that features J.B. Hunt’s buy of Walmart’s intermodal belongings.
The strategic service settlement will increase the businesses’ respective present quantity and capability commitments and allows the event of complete intermodal options to drive long-term worth for each organizations. In reference to the service settlement and elevated commitments, J.B. Hunt will purchase Walmart’s operational intermodal container and chassis fleets.
For many years, J.B. Hunt has labored carefully with Walmart to supply environment friendly transportation options. “Mr. Hunt all the time mentioned ‘Good companions appeal to good companions,’” mentioned Spencer Frazier, govt vp of gross sales and advertising and marketing at J.B. Hunt. “Our prospects belief us to develop options that scale and drive efficiencies throughout their ever-changing provide chains. At present’s announcement is a testomony to the mutual belief and shared imaginative and prescient our corporations have developed over time, and modern preparations like this one exhibit J.B. Hunt’s disciplined strategy to strategically allocating capital to advance our mission of driving long-term worth for our individuals, prospects and shareholders.”
“Discovering new methods to serve our prospects and members and exceed their expectations is essential to us,” mentioned Fernando Cortes, senior vp of transportation at Walmart. “Walmart’s lengthy historical past of working with J.B. Hunt has many milestones of innovation and progress. This settlement will strengthen our dedication to delivering items at an every single day low price to our prospects and members.”
J.B. Hunt converts over-the-road shipments to intermodal, which reduces a cargo’s carbon footprint by a median of 60%. Working one of many largest company-owned intermodal fleets on this planet, J.B. Hunt Intermodal makes a speciality of home and worldwide freight motion that gives reliable, constant and versatile transport choices, together with ocean, transloading, temperature-controlled and expedited capabilities.
J.B. Hunt has long-standing relationships with the {industry}’s main rail suppliers, and in recent times, has labored alongside them to boost service high quality and consistency. In 2023, J.B. Hunt and its long-time joint service supplier BNSF Railway launched Quantum, a breakthrough intermodal service to transform service-sensitive freeway freight to intermodal. The 2 additionally created a brand new service choice to help cross-border freight motion to and from Mexico with coast-to-coast entry within the U.S.
About J.B. Hunt
J.B. Hunt’s imaginative and prescient is to create essentially the most environment friendly transportation community in North America. The corporate’s industry-leading options and mode-neutral strategy generate worth for purchasers by eliminating waste, decreasing prices and enhancing provide chain visibility. Powered by one of many largest company-owned fleets within the nation and third-party capability by means of its J.B. Hunt 360°® digital freight market, J.B. Hunt can meet the distinctive transport wants of any enterprise, from first mile to last supply, and each cargo in-between. By way of disciplined investments in its individuals, expertise and capability, J.B. Hunt is delivering distinctive worth and repair that allow long-term progress for the corporate and its stakeholders.
J.B. Hunt Transport Providers Inc. is a Fortune 500 firm, an S&P 500 firm and a part of the Dow Jones Transportation Common. Its inventory trades on NASDAQ underneath the ticker image JBHT. J.B. Hunt Transport Inc. is a completely owned subsidiary of JBHT. The corporate’s providers embody intermodal, devoted, refrigerated, truckload, less-than-truckload, flatbed, single supply, final mile, transload and extra. For extra data, go to www.jbhunt.com.