Groendyke Transport hauls bulk cargo throughout North America. The company operates from a network of more than 30 terminals, primarily in the southwestern and midwestern US. Among the commodities moved by Groendyke Transport are chemicals, petroleum, and grain products. Customers have included ADM, BASF, Dow Chemical, Eastman Chemical, and Koch Industries. Founded by Harold Groendyke in 1932, Groendyke Transport is owned by the Groendyke family, including chairman and CEO John Groendyke, Harold's son.

Braemar Seascope was created through the 2001 merger of Seascope with Braemar Shipbrokers and Braemar Tankers. It changed its name to Braemar Shipping Services in 2007. Braemar Shipping Services (formerly Braemar Seascope) acts as a broker and marine technical consultant for companies in the gas, oil, raw materials, shipbuilding, and ship-owning industries. Its Cory Brothers unit offers freight forwarding and logistics expertise. (As a freight forwarder, it buys transportation capacity from carriers and resells it to customers.) From offices in Australia, China, India, and Singapore, Braemar Shipping provides services for a variety of vessels, including bulk carriers and tankers.

USF Holland doesn't have time to stop and smell the tulips. Once a subsidiary of USF, the company is the largest regional less-than-truckload (LTL) freight hauler operated by YRC Regional Transportation, a subsidiary of YRC Worldwide. (LTL carriers consolidate freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) USF Holland does business in more than 20 states in the midwestern, northeastern, and southeastern US, as well as in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Providing service to additional regions through sister company USF Reddaway, it operates a fleet of some 4,500 tractors and 8,100 trailers from a network of about 60 terminals. USF Holland was founded in 1929 in Holland, Michigan.

Cardinal Transport operates through a network of more than 6,800 trucking companies, enabling the truckload carrier to offer freight transportation across the US by a group of truck owner-operators. In addition to general freight, the company hauls heavyweight loads. The Cardinal Transport companies comprise an owner/operator fleet of more than 400 power units, including primarily flatbeds, hotshots, and specialized equipment. Cardinal Transport, no relation to North Carolina-based Cardinal Logistics Management, was founded in 1976.

Less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier Southeastern Freight Lines hauls freight throughout the southern US with a fleet of about 3,000 tractors and 9,600 trailers. (LTL carriers consolidate freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) Southeastern Freight Lines operates from a network of about 75 terminals in a dozen states, plus Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. Client have included Lowe's and Masco. Through partnerships with carriers including A. Duie Pyle, Dayton Freight, and Oak Harbor Freight Lines, Southeastern Freight Lines provides service throughout the US, Mexico, and Canada. Southeastern Freight Lines is controlled by the Cassels family, which also owns truckload carrier G&P Trucking.

Genco Shipping & Trading Limited engages in the ocean transportation of drybulk cargoes through the ownership and operation of drybulk carrier vessels worldwide. It primarily transports iron ore, coal, grain, steel products, and other drybulk cargoes. The company charters its vessels primarily to trading houses, including commodities traders; producers; and government-owned entities. As of February 26, 2010, its fleet consisted of 35 drybulk carriers comprising 9 Capesize, 8 Panamax, 4 Supramax, 6 Handymax, and 8 Handysize drybulk carriers, with an aggregate carrying capacity of approximately 2,903,000 deadweight tons. Genco Shipping & Trading Limited was incorporated in 2004 and is based in New York, New York.

Since International Delivery Solutions (IDS) was founded in 1999, we have remained committed to our mission by providing cost-effective, specialized and expedient international mail services based on our customers’ individual needs. We look forward to celebrating a milestone anniversary — our tenth year in business — throughout 2009. Our 31,500 square foot home office is conveniently located close to Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, WI. We also have facilities in Kansas City, MO, and Naples, FL. In addition, our IDS Canadian Direct Entry Office in Niagara Falls, Ontario provides an ideal location for depositing publications, packages and other mailings into Canada. International Delivery Solutions is able to provide expertise in international mail, freight and courier services. We also offer lettershop, packaging and addressing solutions. Whether you’re looking for delivery services to Canada, Spain, Australia — or anywhere in between — IDS offers an array of options to expedite your mail.

United Maritime joins the forces of three subsidiaries engaged in transporting dry bulk commodities. Operations serve deep-water ports and inland waterways in the US and abroad. The company maintains a dozen ocean-going vessels, and 20 river barges; it also owns a transfer and storage terminal and related logistics services. United Maritime's ocean-going fleet, made up of US-flag vessels, has an overall capacity of some 400,000 deadweight tons (DWT). Handled commodities include coal, grain, petroleum coke, and phosphate. United Maritime, known as TECO Transport prior to December 2007, was sold by its former parent TECO Energy to an investment group led by an affiliate of Miami-based Greenstreet Equity Partners.

New Century Transportation is bringing a different style of less-than-truckload (LTL) delivery to the new century. A transportation services company, New Century offers LTL services (where carriers consolidate freight from multiple shippers into a single trailer) to industrial, chemical, food, and other companies. Unlike many LTL carriers, the company offers a signature LTL service it calls "Load-to-Deliver," which involves delivering freight directly to customers rather than to a hub. It operates a fleet of more than 980 tractors and 2,100 trailers in the northeastern US, as well as across other parts of the US and Canada. The company -- formed at the turn of the century in 2000 -- filed to go public in 2010.

IAIS was formed in 1984 and acquired by RDC in 2004. Regional freight carrier Iowa Interstate Railroad (IAIS) operates over about 600 miles of track running from Omaha, Nebraska, to Chicago, passing through Iowa along the way. IAIS hauls cargo such as agricultural products, chemicals, coal, ethanol forest products, intermodal containers and trailers, and steel. Because of its central location, the IAIS system connects with all of North America's largest railroads. IAIS has intermodal facilities in Blue Island, Illinois, and Council Bluffs, Iowa. Iowa Interstate Railroad Ltd. company is a subsidiary of Pittsburgh-based railroad management and investment company Railroad Development Corp. (RDC).

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