Will Wilh. Wilhelmsen (WW) be at the helm of the ship carrying your next vehicle? Through several subsidiaries, WW offers marine transportation via a fleet comprising mainly car carriers and ro-ro (roll on, roll off) vessels. The company owns a minority stake in EUKOR, which operates 85 car carriers that primarily move Hyundai and Kia autos from Korea. EUKOR also serves automakers such as BMW, Ford, General Motors, Mazda, Suzuki, Volkswagen, and Volvo. Annually it transports about 3 million autos to 160 ports in 110 countries. Along with freight transportation, WW provides logistics and supply chain management services through its Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics subsidiary, which it plans to take public.

Dayton Freight Lines is a less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier operating in 11 states in the North-Central US. (LTL carriers consolidate freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) The company operates a fleet of about 900 tractors and 2,100 trailers from a network of more than 40 terminals. Outside its home territory, Dayton Freight offers service in the rest of the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, and Guam through alliances with other carriers, including A. Duie Pyle, Oak Harbor Freight Lines, and Southeastern Freight Lines. Founded in 1981, Dayton Freight is owned by the Cronin family, which includes President and CEO Thomas L. Cronin Jr. and EVP Michael D. Cronin.

AIT Worldwide Logistics maintains about 40 offices in the US, and operates overseas through 330 global service centers and a network of agents. Steven Leturno and Dan Lisowski, who still advise the company, founded AIT Worldwide Logistics in 1979. Arranging the transportation of its customers' cargo by air, land, and sea, AIT Worldwide Logistics provides domestic and international freight forwarding services, including customs brokerage. It also offers supply chain management, including information services that help customers keep track of their freight. Customers have come from a variety of industries; the company's specialties include service to government agencies and handling of perishable products.

Guangshen Railway Company Limited, together with its subsidiaries, primarily provides passenger and freight transportation services on the Shenzhen-Guangzhou-Pingshi railway in the People's Republic of China. Guangshen Railway company’s freight services include the transportation of full load and single load cargo, containers, bulky and overweight cargo, dangerous cargo, fresh and live cargo, and oversized cargo. It also offers long distance passenger transportation services. In addition, Guangshen Railway company engages in the sale of food, beverages, and merchandise on board the trains and in railway stations. Further, it engages in the operation of a travel agency, as well as provision of services relating to warehousing, hotel management, cargo loading and unloading, catering management and services, advertising, and freight transportation and package agency services. Additionally, the company provides property management services, as well as involves in the supervision of construction projects. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 218 pairs of passenger trains, including 100 pairs of inter-city high-speed passenger trains between Guangzhou and Shenzhen; 13 pairs of Hong Kong Through Trains; and 105 pairs of long-distance passenger trains. Guangshen Railway company was founded in 1996 and is based in Shenzhen, the People's Republic of China.

Cargo Transportation offering both truckload and less-than-truckload (LTL) transport, Cargo Transportation Services (CTS) hauls dry and refrigerated freight throughout the US. (LTL carriers consolidate freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) Core customers include wholesalers and growers in the produce industry and account for more than one-third of CTS's total revenue. It maintains a fleet of more than 100 trucks and provides other services, including airport-to-airport and cross-border truck transportation, distribution, logistics, and warehousing. CTS maintains terminals in California and Florida.

As the postal service for the low-lying Netherlands, Royal TNT Post doesn't mind getting its feet wet to deliver the mail. The company, a subsidiary of global posting services giant TNT, collects, sorts, and delivers direct mail, letters, and packages; it handles some 5 billion items annually. Other TNT units provide business mail services in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Slovakia, and the UK. Royal TNT Post also participates in Spring, a global mail services joint venture with Singapore Post and the UK's Royal Mail. In addition, its Cendris unit offers database marketing and document management services.

Big metal boxes mean money for A.P. Moller - Maersk. A.P. Moller - Maersk company's container shipping units, led by Maersk Line, maintain a fleet of more than 500 containerships, and subsidiary APM Terminals is a major container terminal operator. Other vessels in the fleet include tankers and oil field supply and specialty ships. In addition to its shipping-related activities, A.P. Moller - Maersk offers supply chain management and freight forwarding services (through Damco), oil and gas drilling (primarily in the North Sea), and it owns one of Denmark's largest grocery and general merchandise chains. Other units build ships and shipping containers and provide air cargo services. A.P. Moller - Maersk operates in about 130 countries.

Truckload carrier Midwest Parts & Equipment, which does business as Midwest Systems, provides a range of freight transportation services. As a truckload carrier, the company specializes in doing its part for intermodal transportation, in which its trucks haul containers that may also move by train, ship, or both on their journey from origin to destination. The company provides service to all states but concentrates on Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, and Tennessee. Midwest Systems also leases containers and trailers and provides maintenance services. Founded in 1943 by Earl M. Winkle, the company is owned by company officers Justin Williamson and Thomas Lynch.

Saia -- you say it "sigh-ah" -- is a holding company for less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier Saia Motor Freight Line. (LTL carriers consolidate freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) Saia Motor Freight specializes in regional and interregional services, including time-definite and expedited transportation; it also offers truckload freight hauling. The carrier operates a fleet of some 3,200 tractors and 11,200 trailers from a network of about 150 terminals. Saia's service territory spans about 35 states in the South, Southwest, Midwest, as well as Pacific Northwest, and West US. It offers coverage elsewhere in North America through partnerships with other carriers.

The Washington Companies are a group of individual companies in which Montana businessman Dennis R. Washington owns or controls a majority position. Each company displays a unique entrepreneurial spirit that is individually cultured and managed by professional management teams, and guided by separate boards of directors. All of the companies are privately held and collectively generate annual revenues approaching $2 Billion US. The Washington Companies are headquartered throughout the United States and western Canada and conduct business internationally.The Washington Companies' core endeavors are: rail transportation, marine transportation, environmental remediation, restoration and construction, mining, heavy equipment sales and service, aviation technology, and real estate development. Together, The Washington Companies share a commitment to ethical conduct, a commitment to excellence and a strong sense of corporate citizenship. Their affiliation gives them the ability to interconnect and combine resources and remain highly competitive. The individual success of each Company also empowers a strong sense of social responsibility, realized through corporate charitable activities and programs funded by the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation.

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