Additions to the Odyssey Family… Welcome! Company-Wide New Hires and Promotions from

January 1, 2017 through January 31, 2017

I n s i d e t h i s

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New Hires 1

Inside Od-

yssey 2/3

Health and Safety

3

Selling

Power 4

Odyssey

Spotlight 5

Industry News and Events

6

O d y s s e y ’ s V a l u e S t a t e m e n t :

One Odyssey Newsletter

Organizations with

diverse and com-

plex transportation

needs rely on Od-

yssey’s innovative

technologies to

deliver thorough,

high value logistics

strategies.

Our clients benefit

from expert tailored

solutions across

multiple transporta-

tion modes, backed

by the power of our

over $2B freight

network.

[Edition 3, Volume 2] - February 2017

Quote of the Month Special Employee Recognition

Dale Prior

Terminal Manager, Kent WA

Dale Prior celebrated his 20 year work anniversary this month. Dale had the opportunity to work at multiple busi-ness units within the Odyssey family, between ADS and CMI. Thank you very much for your great work Dale, we appreciate all that you do to keep this business running.

If you have someone you would like to nominate for a special em-

ployee recognition please email:

marissamurphy@odysseylogistics.com.

New Personnel / Segment Location

Duncan, Jeremy / Trucking St. Gabriel, LA

Baker, Verdell B / Trucking Chesterton, IN

Bates, Nicholas / Trucking Bridgeton, MO

Cazares, Salvador / Trucking Compton CA

Greenfield, Robert A / Trucking Portage, IN

Ruhnow, Chad W / Trucking Chesterton, IN

Sanders, William / Trucking Portage, IN

Thomas, David L / Trucking Arlington, TX

Williams, Kendall / Trucking Arlington, TX

Johnson, Priscilla / Intermodal Chicago, IL

Montoya, Ramiro / Intermodal Chicago, IL

Sheeler, Randy / Bulk Remote- PA

"Put your heart, mind, intellect and

soul even to your smallest acts.

This is the secret of success.

Safety (SHE&S) ~ Integrity ~ Customer Focus

— Swami Sivananda

Employee Name Promotion Title Location

Broadway, Larry Assistant Terminal Manager Chicago, IL

Cook, Christopher Foreman Chicago, IL

Darnell, Nick Lead Account Manager Joliet, IL

White, Phil Business Analyst Manager Danbury, CT

Stone, Theresa Client Services Representative II Charlotte, NC

New Personnel / Segment Location

Dixon, Richard L / Trucking Linden, NJ

Bell, James / Trucking Linden, NJ

Blackwell, Toni A / Trucking Linden, NJ

Chevalier, Antonio / Trucking Linden, NJ

Ghobrial, Nabil / Trucking Linden, NJ

Lance, Allen G / Trucking Linden, NJ

Lewis, Edmond / Trucking Pasadena, TX

Ruiz, Ray / Trucking Linden, NJ

Simms, Kevin / Trucking Pasadena, TX

Sutton, Brian K / Trucking Linden, NJ

Lacy, Phyllis A/ ITM Danbury, CT

Marquis, Joanne M/ Shared Services Danbury, CT

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Inside Odyssey

“Growth continues for Odyssey; move within Matrix planned”

By Chris Bosak, NewsTimes Danbury, CT

“It was a year of growth in 2016 for Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corp. as it announced net revenue in-creased by 8 percent. In other words, 2016 was a typical year for the Danbury-based transportation company. Odyssey officials said the company has now experienced growth for 14 consecutive years. A major acquisition, maintaining a leader-ship position in key markets and expanding into new areas helped spur last year’s growth, Robert Shellman, president and CEO, said.

It is already shaping up to be an eventful year for Odyssey in 2017 as the company will move into a new loca-tion, is contemplating going public and is on pace for double-digit growth for the year. “Odyssey continues to offer its customers tailored supply chain solutions that yield savings and a competitive advantage,” Shellman said. “We continue to deliver strategic services that satisfy the increasing needs of our global client base, but we also identify market needs and innovate to solve customer and industry challenges.” He said solving complex transportation problems is a specialty for the company, which has clients such as BASF, Proctor & Gamble, Alcoa, Ford and GM. Odyssey offers “safe and on-time transportation solutions to large- and medium-sized companies,” Cosmo Alberico, Odyssey’s CFO and COO, said.

It operates mainly in the chemicals, metals and liquid food grade markets. It transports goods by land, air and ocean and has a freight network of more than $2 billion.”

For the full article: click here.

Odyssey has partnered with TicketsatWork

Odyssey has partnered with TicketsatWork to offer you exclusive travel and entertainment offers and special discounts not available to the general public. Discounts are available to all Odyssey associates, as well as their friends and family. You can visit Ticketsatwork.com and click the “Become a Member” to gain access to available discounts (use company code Od-ysseyLogistics).

This program is offered as part of our employee incentive plan for your personal use and has no connection to the Corporate Travel & Entertainment (T&E) program.

We do have the capability of tailoring the discount offerings so please feel free to provide your feedback to your site HR Rep-resentative at any time!

The following article was published in the Danbury NewsTimes and was picked up by a number of additional national publications:

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Inside Odyssey

Monthly Health and Safety Tip:

The upcoming month of March is National Nutrition Month® which is a nutrition education and information cam-paign created annually in March by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. The campaign focuses on the im-portance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits. Here are a few tips from the Acedemy website: www.eatrightpro.org

Remember to eat breakfast

Get to Know Food Labels

Watch Portion Sizes

Dine Out without Ditching Your Goals

Health and Safety

Odyssey in the News!

Members of Odyssey attended the SMC³’s “JumpStart” conference in Atlanta, GA. “JumpStart” is a three-day supply chain event produced annually by SMC³ to facilitate deeper knowledge and collaboration between logistics and transportation professionals from carrier, shipper, logistics service provider and technology verticals.

The Picture to the right was taken and published by the American Journal of Transportation, and features Cynthia Sciongay from Odyssey Danbury and Kelly Butler from Odyssey Kennesaw.

Odyssey acquires AsepTrans

We are very pleased to announce the acquisition of AsepTrans, an asset-based food-grade ISO tank transporta-tion, tank cleaning and ISO tank depot services company. AsepTrans is the only aseptic ISO tank operator in the world and has been developing and refining the technology for more than 10 years (aseptic means free of any living organism).

AsepTrans will be merged into our existing Odyssey FoodTrans business. The acquisition will double both our fleet of intermodal ISO tanks dedicated to food-grade liquids, as well as our ISO tank chassis fleet. Also included in the acquisition are full-service tank cleaning facilities and ISO tank depot services in Clewiston, FL and Altamira, Mexi-co.

Aseptic transportation helps ensure product quality, and can be cost-effective, eliminating the need for shippers to have additional aseptic or pasteurization processing/storage facilities. Adding this unique service to our portfolio is consistent with Odyssey's strategy of growth through building and acquiring market leaders with significant barriers to entry.

You can read the full press release here.

Drink More Water

Follow Food Safety Guidelines

Be active

Its okay to snack but snack healthy

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Selling Power

Cross-Selling Success Story

The combination of Odyssey’s large team of experts and vast logistics network enables us to deliver thorough,

high value logistics solutions to our clients across any mode of transportation regardless of how complex the

customer’s situation may be. No matter what the request, One Odyssey can handle it.

This month, Odyssey customer GCP came to us with a need to secure some temporary Warehouse space for

storing excess inventory in or around Mt. Pleasant TN. Doug Postek, Odyssey Director of Facility Logistics,

knowing that we had facilities in Columbia, TN, reached out to Matt Brinkley, Vice President of Operations at

our Warehouse and Flatbed division. Doug and Matt were able to work together and secure 35 truckloads

worth of new warehouse business and help provide a customer with a solution.

This is a great example of the service we can provide to our clients when we understand the broad array of

services and capabilities ONE Odyssey creates.

“The sales department isn’t the whole company, but the whole company better be the sales department.” - Philip Kotler

Everyone at Odyssey regardless of department or title impacts the customer either directly or indirectly. This month, Wendi Lasko, at our Bulk Tank Trucking division, exemplified this idea. A valued bulk truck customer went our of his way to email Wendi’s manager to say, “I send a ridiculous number of emails daily and, while sometimes it’s easier just to call people, I suffer through the emails just so I don’t have to call the person on the other end of the computer. Wendi is an exception to that and I wanted to take a minute to point out her profes-sionalism and, most importantly, her personality. It’s amazing how just a few seconds of joking can lighten the mood of the day.”

Even the small things impact a way our customers view Odyssey and its business units. Great job Wendi!

Matt Brinkley Doug Postek

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Odyssey Spotlight:

Metals Solutions

Each month Odyssey will be highlighting a different segment of the Odyssey family.

Segment: Metals Solutions

Overview of services:

Our metals logistics experts tailor solutions for all types of metals products

in any mode. Odyssey is truly a one-stop shop for all metals logistics

needs. We utilize both asset-based and independent contractor fleets as

well as our proven Load and Roll Pallet (LRP) intermodal process to pro-

vide efficient, damage-free transportation through gateways across North

America and abroad. We provide customized door-to-door metals transpor-

tation solutions tailored to the client’s needs.

Over-the-Road Metals Transport

As a North American asset-based carrier with over 500 piec-

es of equipment, we provide safe and reliable on-time metals

delivery by utilizing both asset-based and independent con-

tractor fleets.

Customized Intermodal Distribution

We are the leading intermodal distribution company, provid-

ing customized intermodal distribution solutions through our

strategic network of transload facilities. We established the

Load and Roll Pallet (LRP), which permits safe, damage-free

transportation of metals in a closed ocean container.

International Metals Transportation

Our capabilities extend globally, including Europe, Asia and

Latin America, providing both export and import transporta-

tion services door-to-door, door-to-port, port-to-door or port-to

-port. Odyssey’s one-stop-shop global services also include

freight forwarding, NVOCC and customs brokerage.

Warehouse and Transload Solutions

Our state- of-the-art warehouse and transload facilities are

strategically located around the globe to allow us to provide

the most customizable, high-quality warehousing, transload-

ing and local just-in-time product delivery.

How to Learn More:

If anyone ever has any questions about our metals solutions please visit our website for additional infor-

mation: http://www.odysseylogistics.com/industries/metals/

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Industry News and Events

Follow Odyssey On Social Media and SHARE, SHARE, SHARE!

Best way to stay up to date on all company and industry news/events is to follow Odyssey on all the major

social media platforms. Don’t be afraid to share or like the posts!

The below graphic gives a snapshot of the current VSA (Vessel Sharing Agreement) structure across the ocean carrier community as well

as what will become of the carrier alliances in April of this year. There may be some minor adjustments to the below but essentially these

will be the major VSA’s going forward as of April 1, 2017:

What to Expect?

David Arsenault, the former CEO of Hyundai Merchant Marine, has warned “We’ve seen alliances get reshuffled in the past, but never

have we seen all of those alliances kick off with a shotgun start at one time.” Shippers and consumers of ocean containership products

should be aware that a restructuring of this magnitude results is a number of new or vastly expanded relationships among carriers and

between carriers and terminals that could bring about a variety of challenges in the supply chain during this transition period. Potential

challenges include but are not limited to:

Delays in both landside and high seas operations

Terminal changes at ports around the world as the ocean carriers determine which ports and terminals the ships in the new

rotations will call at.

Congestion at key container ports around the world.

Negotiations with shore-side labor may evolve as new terminal leases and berthing contracts are negotiated and devel-

oped.

Chassis availability issues, mainly in North America.

Changes with rail cutoffs (upstream), again mainly in North America

How to prepare for the potential challenges?

Overall the keys to overcoming these challenges will be to:

Communicate openly with overseas trading partners about the upcoming change in carrier alliances

Build some excess lead time into your supply chain

Consider advancing production and shipping orders ahead of the new VSA launch date

Consider having safety stock in key regions or facilities

Maintain a diverse ocean carrier mix to support your business

Ocean Containership Vessel Sharing Agreements to be Realigned in Q2 2017What to Expect?