PHILADELPHIA — One of the larger customs brokers in the Delaware River region, OHL is a global supply chain management solutions leader with teams dedicated to air and ocean transportation, trade services and customs brokerage focused on specific industry verticals, including retail, apparel, footwear, chemicals, steel, forest products and especially perishables.

Ed Fitzgerald, assistant vice president of import operations, has been with OHL for 19 years and manages the perishable customs brokerage team, solving international shippers’ challenges before they become problems.

GLOUCESTER CITY, NJ — Importer AMC Direct Inc., with U.S. headquarters in New Jersey, has made much headway in North America in the past few years, despite the fact that the company has been flying under the radar.

With consumption of imported fruit, like AMC’s South African summer citrus, on the rise, the company is becoming more visible in the Americas.

PHILADELPHIA — The Tioga Marine Fruit Terminal is not the biggest on the Delaware River, but it offers advantages that other facilities cannot, said Robert Palaima, president of Delaware River Stevedores, which operates the facility.

KENNETT SQUARE, PA — Frank Manfredi has a hard time sitting still. Though over the years the former mushroom farmer has built a simple cold storage facility into a major league transportation and logistics hub an hour outside of Philadelphia, he is constantly tinkering with the formula and facilities that have made The Manfredi Cos. successful.

TAMPA, FL — Though Seatrade Group Reefer Chartering N.V. has been in business for more than 60 years, the Curacao-based company — with North American operations in Tampa and Philadelphia — is still taking a progressive approach to business, carving out a niche in the produce industry as a leading carrier of international fresh cargo.

WILMINGTON, DE — Being the first port along the Delaware River from the coast gives the state-owned port of Wilmington, here, a competitive advantage.

Just four hours upriver from the Atlantic, Wilmington is among the top-ranked North American ports for fresh fruit imports and juice concentrate and has one of the larger dockside cold storage facilities in the U.S. Each year, more than 1.5 million tons of bananas, pineapples, grapes, deciduous fruit out of Chile and Argentina, and citrus from Morocco are offloaded at the port.