Providence and Worcester Railroad Company operates as an interstate freight carrier with regional railroad operating in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York. Providence and Worcester Railroad company transports various commodities, including automobiles, construction aggregates, iron and steel products, chemicals, lumber, scrap metals, plastic resins, cement, coal, construction and demolition debris, and processed foods, as well as edible foodstuffs, such as corn syrup and vegetable oils. As of December 31, 2009, its rail freight system comprised approximately 516 miles of track. The company also services a double-stack intermodal terminal facility in New England in Worcester, Massachusetts. In addition, it engages in the sale of properties, granting of easements, and licensing and leasing of land and tracks. Providence and Worcester Railroad company was founded in 1969 and is based in Worcester, Massachusetts.

General Maritime Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides international transportation services of seaborne crude oil and petroleum products. The company’s vessels are primarily available for charter on a spot voyage or time charter basis. As of February 26, 2010, it operated 31 vessels consisting of 2 VLCCs, 11 Suezmax vessels, 12 Aframax vessels, 2 Panamax vessels, and 4 Handymax vessels. The company’s vessels had a total of 3.9 million dead weight tonnage carrying capacity on a combined basis. Its customers include oil companies, oil producers, oil traders, and vessel owners. General Maritime Corporation operates its vessels in the Caribbean, South and Central America, the United States, western Africa, the Mediterranean, Europe, and the North Sea ports.

For Total Transportation of Mississippi, total transportation means trucking, but not just within in the Magnolia State. The truckload carrier provides service throughout the eastern half of the US. It operates a fleet of about 650 tractors and 1,200 trailers from two terminals in Mississippi, two in Tennessee, and one apiece in Georgia and North Carolina. Total transports general commodities on regional and medium-length routes (800-1,200 miles); it also offers dedicated contract carriage, in which drivers and equipment are assigned to customers long-term. Truckload carrier U.S. Xpress Enterprises owns 90% of Total; company managers own the rest.

Omega Navigation Enterprises Inc. provides marine transportation services through the ownership and operation of double hull product tankers worldwide. Its product tankers transport refined petroleum products, including gasoline, jet fuel, kerosene, naphtha, gas oil, and heating oil. The company’s fleet includes 12 hull product tankers with a carrying capacity of approximately 680,000 dwt, of which 2 double hull product/chemical tankers with a capacity of 47,000 dwt and 2 double hull product/chemical tankers with a capacity of 37,000 dwt are owned through equal partnership joint ventures with a subsidiary of Glencore International, A.G. Omega Navigation Enterprises Inc. was founded in 2005 and is based in Athens, Greece.

Even though it does have plenty of horsepower, don't look for truckload carrier Triple Crown Services in the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, or the Belmont Stakes. The company instead races for business in the field of intermodal transportation, which involves moving freight by multiple methods -- in this case, trucks and trains. Triple Crown maintains a fleet of about 7,500 RoadRailer trailers (manufactured by Wabash National) that can be pulled down the road by tractors or along the rails by locomotives. The company operates from more than a dozen terminals in the US and Canada. A unit of railroad operator Norfolk Southern, Triple Crown was founded in 1986.

Panalpina World Transport opened its first UK office in 1921. No mere mountainclimber, Panalpina covers the world. A unit of Switzerland-based Panalpina World Transport (Holding), Panalpina World Transport provides freight forwarding and supply chain management services for customers in the UK. Panalpina World Transport Ltd. offers both airfreight and ocean freight forwarding. It specializes in service to companies in the energy industry, and it also draws customers from sectors such as automotive, electronics and telecommunications, retail, and health care.

Dairy state-based Marten Transport hauls more than cheese. The long-haul truckload carrier uses refrigerated and insulated trailers to convey a variety of food products and other temperature-sensitive materials; it also hauls dry freight. Marten Transport operates throughout the US and in parts of Canada; its average haul is about 760 miles. The company's fleet includes about 2,300 tractors and 4,000 trailers. In addition to freight transportation, the company provides logistics services. Among Marten Transport's largest customers are food giants General Mills and Kraft, which collectively account for about 30% of its total revenue each year.

Federal employees and tourists who might otherwise have to bring their cars into downtown Washington, DC, can thank the Washington Metropolitan Transportation Authority for saving them stress and shoeleather. The Metro provides rail and bus transportation services throughout the nation's capital and in its Maryland and Virginia suburbs, a 1,500-sq.-mi. area -- the second largest rail transit system and sixth largest bus network in the US. Overall, passengers take about 350 million rail and bus trips on the Metro annually. The agency's rail system includes about 85 stations served by more than 105 miles of track, both underground and aboveground. Metro operates a fleet of more than 1,500 buses.

Company president Robert Go founded Air Power in 1987. Freight forwarder Air Power International Express (U.S.A.) arranges the transportation of its customers' goods by air, land, and sea. As a freight forwarder, it acts as a non-vessel operating common carrier (NVOCC), buying space from carriers and reselling it to customers. Air Power International Express company also provides customs brokerage and warehousing and distribution services. It maintains a regional office in the Philippines and operates through alliances with other freight forwarders in markets around the world.

The Bronel Group was founded in 1989 to provide freight services within the UK and has since expanded its reach globally. It expanded its services further through a joint-venture with Box Consolidators. The joint-venture, called BBC Global, specializes in less-than-containerload (LCL) shipments. The Bronel Group carries freight across the land, over the sea, and through the air. Bronel Group Ltd. company hauls from between the UK and Asia/Pacific and North America. It offers a full-service deep-sea shipping, and it provides its own air cargo services. The group also operates four depots in the UK.

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