Founded as a moving company in 1920, Hassett Air Express is owned by CEO Terry Sherman and CFO Donna O'Reilly. Hassett Storage Warehouses, which does business as Hassett Air Express, provides express air and ground freight forwarding to customers across the US. (Freight forwarders buy transportation capacity from carriers and resell it to customers.) Hassett Air Express operates from eight locations in the US and through a network of agents overseas, with customers coming from the publishing, entertainment, manufacturing, and automotive industries. It offers same-day and next-day service, charter service, and operates a segment for transporting materials to trade shows.

Pacific Basin Shipping Limited is one of the world’s leading owners and operators of modern handysize and handymax dry bulk vessels and a global provider of diversified shipping services. Our modern handysize and handymax dry bulk vessels operate a large, uniform fleet of geared bulk carriers with sizes ranging from 25,000 to 60,000 deadweight tonnes. The Company is listed and headquartered in Hong Kong, and operates in three main maritime segments under the banners of Pacific Basin Dry Bulk, PB Energy & Infrastructure Services, and PB RoRo. Our fleet (including newbuildings on order) comprises over 170 vessels directly servicing blue chip industrial customers. With over 1,700 seafarers and 360 shore-based staff in 21 offices in key locations around the world, Pacific Basin provides a comprehensive quality service to its customers.

Aramex is a leading global provider of comprehensive logistics and transportation solutions. Established in 1982 as an express operator, the company rapidly evolved into a global brand recognized for its customized services and innovative multi-product offering. In January 1997, Aramex became the first Arab-based international company to trade its shares on the NASDAQ stock exchange. After five years of successful trading, Aramex returned to private ownership in February 2002 and continued to expand and excel as a privately owned company, establishing global alliances and gaining stronger brand recognition. In June 2005 Aramex went public on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM) as Arab International Logistics (Aramex) with its shares traded under ARMX. Today, Aramex employs more than 8,100 people in over 310 locations around the globe, and has a strong alliance network providing worldwide presence.

The largest subsidiary of FedEx (about 60% of sales), FedEx Express is responsible for its parent's namesake express delivery business, the world's largest. FedEx Express delivers about 3.5 million packages per day throughout the US and to some 220 countries and territories worldwide. Packages (from envelopes to boxes weighing up to 150 pounds) account for most of the company's sales; FedEx Express also delivers pallets of freight weighing from 151 pounds to 2,200 pounds. The company operates a fleet of about 665 aircraft and about 41,000 motor vehicles and trailers.

Kintetsu World Express and its affiliates operate from more than 280 offices in about 185 cities in 30 countries around the world. The company was spun off from Kintetsu Corp., the operator of Kinki Nippon Railway, in 1970. Kintetsu still owns about 41% of the company. Kintetsu World Express specializes in international airfreight forwarding. The company also offers ocean freight forwarding and arranges ground transportation of its customers' goods. Key subsidiaries include Kintetsu World Express Sales, which handles the transportation and installment of exhibition or event shipments, and Kintetsu World Express Shikoku, which focuses on freight shipment within the Shikoku region of Japan.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services is a leader of the pack. Its intermodal unit, the company's largest, maintains some 2,200 tractors and 40,000 containers and moves customers' cargo by combinations of truck and train. J.B. Hunt's dedicated contract services unit supplies customers with drivers and equipment; it operates about 4,000 company-controlled trucks. The company's truckload transportation unit, which has a fleet of about 1,700 tractors, provides dry van freight transportation service in the US, Canada, and Mexico. A fourth business segment, integrated capacity solutions (ICS), manages freight transportation via third-party carriers as well as J.B. Hunt equipment.

Universal Truckload Services hasn't hauled freight beyond its own galaxy, but the company does cover the US and parts of Canada (Ontario and Quebec). As an "asset-light" provider of truckload freight transportation, the company operates through a network of truck owner-operators rather than employing drivers and investing heavily in equipment. It can call upon a fleet of some 3,400 tractors and 3,400 trailers, including standard dry vans and flatbeds; the majority of its tractors and trailers are owned by others. The company generates business primarily through about 770 sales agents. Trucking magnates Matthew Moroun and his father, Manuel Moroun, control Universal Truckload Services (UTSI).

From Alava/Araba to Zaragoza, Azkar has the car to get it moved. With a fleet of some 2,200 vehicles -- including around 470 line-haul trailers -- and a network of about 60 distribution centers and almost 30 logistics platforms, Transportes Azkar provides parcel delivery and logistics services for more than 13,000 customers throughout Spain and Portugal. The company offers services elsewhere in Europe and the world through its Azkar Overseas unit and as partners in the Logistics World Alliance of delivery companies. Transportes Azkar, S.A. has also begun making inroads (so to speak) in China. Chairman Luis Fernandez Somoza owns more than half of Transportes Azkar, which was founded in 1933.

Through its operating companies, TransForce is one of Canada's largest providers of transportation and logistics services. Subsidiaries offer truckload transportation of general freight and specialized cargo, as well as less-than-truckload (LTL) tranportation through carrier TST Overland Express. (Less-than-truckload carriers consolidate loads from multiple shippers into a single trailer.) Other TransForce units include parcel delivery company Canpar, and logistics and warehousing services. In 2008 the company, which formerly traded as TransForce Income Fund, converted itself from an income fund to a corporation in order to invest more of its income in its business.

A diversified transportation services company, NFI Industries operates through subsidiaries such as truckload freight carrier National Freight, warehouse operator National Distribution Center, and NFI Interactive Logistics. It provides both over-the-road transportation and dedicated fleet services; overall, it maintains a fleet of about 2,500 tractors and 6,900 trailers. NFI also has about 18 million sq. ft. of warehouse space in almost 60 facilities throughout the US. Catering primarily to the retail, beverage, and food and grocery sectors, the company also owns and manages some 7 million sq. ft. of real estate. Established in 1932 by Israel Brown, NFI is owned and run by members of the founding Brown family.

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