CEVA Logistics notified the state Friday it would lay off 93 employees in Jacksonville on April 16.
The affected employees are involved in a wholesale trade operation at 8040 Bayberry Road, according to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Notice.
CEVA Logistics issued a statement that the layoffs are the result of “a contract moving on” and it will not comment further.
The Bayberry Road address is the same as that of Southeast Toyota Distributors, which is part of JM Family Enterprises Inc. in Deerfield Beach.
The almost 400,000-square-foot warehouse is owned by JM Family Enterprises through the SET Land Trust and houses Southeast Toyota Parts and Distribution.
JM Family Enterprises spokeswoman Christie Caliendo said Monday that CEVA had been a logistics contractor there. She said contracts are rebid and Black Horse Carriers Inc. of Illinois was awarded the contract effective April 18.
Black Horse Carriers did not return a telephone call late Monday about how many employees it will need for the contract and whether the laid-off employees would be hired.
CEVA Holdings LLC, based in the Netherlands, is a supply-chain management company with more than 950 operations in 170 countries, employing 42,000 people.
In the U.S., it provides freight management and logistics services, employing more than 9,000 people at 126 locations.
Its predecessor name in Jacksonville was TNT Logistics, which in 2006 was sold to affiliates of New York-based venture capitalists Apollo Management LP, which renamed it CEVA Logistics.
Contract logistics account for almost 54 percent of its business and freight management accounts for 46 percent, according to CEVA’s website.
Its primary Jacksonville operations are at 10751 Deerwood Park Blvd.
CEVA Logistics opened its first Center of Logistics Excellence there in Jacksonville in February 2013. At the time, the Logistics Management, Modern Materials Handling and Supply Chain Review publication reported along with that center, CEVA had 250 employees at its Jacksonville facility.
The Center of Excellence was designed to showcase CEVA’s logistics capabilities, including solution design, logistics engineering, managed transportation services, supply chain solutions and its CEVA Matrix technology.
So far in 2016, companies filed four WARN notices for layoffs in Jacksonville, totaling 533 jobs. Along with CEVA, Forever 21 filed a notice for 63 layoffs, BAE Systems Southeast Shipyards for 300 and Professional Transportation Inc. for 77. The latter three layoffs are effective from mid to late March.
That compares with four announcements totaling 675 job layoffs in Jacksonville last year through Feb. 19.
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