Malaysian national oil company Petronas owns 62% of MISC, which was formerly known as Malaysia International Shipping Corporation. When it's time to ship liquefied natural gas (LNG), MISC often gets the call -- its fleet of more than 25 LNG carriers is among the world's largest. MISC also operates petroleum tankers, chemical tankers, and containerships; overall, the company's owned and chartered-in fleet includes more than 100 vessels. Energy-related shipping accounts for more than half of MISC's sales; the company also maintains offshore floating terminals for energy companies. Container shipping and related logistics services account for most of the rest of the company's business.

Allegiant Travel Company operates as a leisure travel company in the United States. The company provides scheduled passenger services from small cities to leisure destinations. It focuses on transporting travelers in small cities to leisure destinations, such as Las Vegas, Nevada; Phoenix, Arizona; Los Angeles, California; and Orlando, Tampa/St. Petersburg, and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The company sells air travel on a stand-alone basis, as well as bundled with hotel rooms, rental cars, and other travel related services. It also provides charter air services under long-term contracts, as well as on a seasonal and ad-hoc basis. The company markets its services through advertising and promotions in newspapers, magazines, television, and radio, as well as through targeted public relations and promotional activities. As of February 1, 2010, it operated a fleet of 46 aircraft consisting of 28 MD-83 aircraft, 4 MD-87 aircraft, 8 MD-82 aircraft, and 6 MD-88 aircraft, as well as offered scheduled service from 58 small cities on 136 routes. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Alianca Navegacao e Logistica sails around the globe to deliver the goods. Alianca Navegacao e Logistica provides sea transportation services, maintaining a fleet of some 20 container ships and four tramp ships (ships without a fixed schedule). Alianca Navegacao e Logistica also offers logistical services and coordination of road and rail transport from port to final destination. Its coastal shipping service includes 13 Brazilian ports. The company, which serves markets in Latin America, as well as North America, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, and South Africa, caters to the automotive, chemicals, and food industries, among others. Alianca Navegacao e Logistica is a subsidiary of German marine transportation titan, Hamburg Sud.

ITAL Logistics is a British freight company with Italian flavor. The firm began by specializing in shipping freight between the UK and Italy, but has since expanded its service to include Spain, Greece, Portugal, and about a half dozen Western European countries. ITAL Logistics provides weekly scheduled and expedited (within 48 hours) freight transport. Within each country, it partners with other regional logistics companies to provide ground and ocean shipping services. Though headquartered in the Manchester area, ITAL Logistics has a depot in the Midlands and in the South of England to provide complete coverage throughout the UK. ITAL Logistics was founded in 2000.

U.S. Shipping Corp is a leading provider of long-haul marine transportation services, principally for refined petroleum products in the U.S. Jones Act trade. We are also a leading provider of coastwise transportation of petrochemical and commodity chemical products. Our existing fleet consists of eight vessels; Three chemical parcel tankers; one product tanker; four articulated tug barge units (ATB) and one integrated tug barge. With the addition of a series of ATB units, we are adding double-hull newbuilds to our fleet that will serve customers in both the refined petroleum product and chemical markets.

Diana Shipping Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in Athens, Greece. Diana Shipping Inc. provides shipping transportation services worldwide. Diana Shipping transports dry bulk cargoes that include commodities, such as iron ore, coal, grain, and other materials along worldwide shipping routes. As of December 31, 2009, its fleet consisted of 13 Panamax dry bulk carriers and 7 Capesize dry bulk carriers that had a combined carrying capacity of approximately 2.2 million deadweight tonnage. Its customers include national, regional, and international companies. The company was formerly known as Diana Shipping Investments Corp. and changed its name to Diana Shipping Inc. in February 2005.

Rand Logistics, Inc. is a leading provider of bulk freight shipping services throughout the Great Lakes region. Through its subsidiaries, Rand Logistics, Inc. operates a fleet of ten self-unloading bulk carriers, including eight River Class vessels and one River Class integrated tug/barge unit, and three conventional bulk carriers, of which one is operated under a contract of affreightment. Rand Logistics, Inc. is the only carrier able to offer significant domestic port-to-port services in both Canada and the U.S. on the Great Lakes. Rand Logistics, Inc. Company’s vessels operate under the U.S. Jones Act – which dictates that only ships that are built, crewed and owned by U.S. citizens can operate between U.S. ports – and the Canada Marine Act – which requires Canadian commissioned ships to operate between Canadian ports. Headquartered in New York, NY, Rand Logistics was formed in 2006 through the acquisition of the outstanding shares of capital stock of Lower Lakes Towing Ltd. Common shares of Rand Logistics trade on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the symbol RLOG.

Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha, known as NYK Line, is at home in ports around the globe. With a fleet of about 780 vessels, the company is one of the world's largest marine transportation providers. The NYK Line fleet includes bulk carriers, containerships, tankers, and a variety of specialized vessels, including car carriers and liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers; overall, the fleet has a capacity of more than 50 million deadweight tons (DWT). In conjunction with its marine transportation business, NYK Line offers such logistics services as customs clearance, supply chain management, and warehousing, and it operates marine terminals.

One of the regional less-than-truckload (LTL) freight haulers operated by YRC Regional Transportation, USF Reddaway does business in the western US and in western Canada. (LTL carriers consolidate freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) The carrier operates a fleet of some 2,300 tractors and 7,700 trailers from a network of about 70 terminals. It serves about a dozen states and two Canadian provinces. USF Reddaway extends its service into additional regions of the US through connections with other YRC Regional Transportation carriers, including USF Holland.

Odfjell is a leading company in the global market for transportation and storage of bulk liquid chemicals, acids, edible oils and other special products. Originally set up in 1916, the Company pioneered the development of the parcel tanker trades in the middle/late 1950s and the tank storage business in the late 1960s. Odfjell owns and operates parcel tankers in global and regional trades as well as a network of tank terminals. Our strategy is to continue developing our position as a leading logistics service provider for customers worldwide. We aim at maintaining this position through efficient and safe operations of deep-sea and regional parcel tankers and tank terminals. Scale is needed to offer an efficient trading pattern in a global transportation context, thereby maximizing fleet utilization. Our size also allows us to obtain significant purchasing benefits.

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