Pinnacle Airlines Corp. (NASDAQ: PNCL), an airline holding company, is the parent company of three wholly-owned operating subsidiaries: Pinnacle Airlines, Inc., Colgan Air, Inc. and Mesaba Airlines. The corporate headquarters is located in Memphis, Tenn. Airport hub operations are located in Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, Newark, Washington Dulles, Houston, Memphis, Minneapolis and Salt Lake City. Pinnacle Airlines Corp. and its operating subsidiaries employ 7,700 People in North America. Visit www.pncl.com for more information.

Family-owned and operated, Coppersmith was founded in 1948. L. E. Coppersmith Inc. isn't a metalworker -- it earns its coppers by providing international freight forwarding services. Coppersmith arranges the transportation of import and export cargo by air and sea. L. E. Coppersmith Inc. also provides customs brokerage and warehousing and distribution services. It operates from 10 offices in major US trade gateways. Along with handling general cargo, Coppersmith specializes in handling shipments of cotton, produce, and hunting trophies. Coppersmith extends its reach through membership in World Cargo Alliance, a group of some 1,000 independent freight forwarders.

NV Nederlandse Spoorwegen operates nearly 400 stations in the Netherlands. It has a contract agreement to run the Dutch main rail network until 2015. Nederlandse Spoorwegen (also known as Dutch Railways), the holding company for NS Group, moves more than a million people a day in the Netherlands. NS Group primarily operates passenger trains throughout the country (including a high speed train) but has expanded into the UK, through its subsidiary NedRailways, operating in Liverpool and northern England. It also transports passengers in Germany, Belgium, France, and the Czech Republic. NS Group's other segments include hub development (management of the train stations) and construction.

Lone Star Transportation hauls freight throughout North America on flatbed trailers.Lone Star Transportation company specializes in transporting equipment for wind power generation facilities, along with other heavy and complex loads for customers in industries such as aerospace, construction, and oil and gas. It operates a fleet of about 870 tractors and 2,000 trailers. In addition to freight transportation, Lone Star provides a variety of logistics services, which include arranging the transportation of customers' freight by air, ocean, and rail carriers. Company president Tex Robbins owns Lone Star, which began operations in 1988.

Leveraging a fleet of more than 600 tractors and 1,900 trailers, USF Glen Moore provides truckload transportation of freight throughout the US. The company offers national service as well as regional freight hauling; its regional fleets are based in the Midwest, Northeast, Southeast, and West. Its primary bases are in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and Knoxville, Tennessee. Along with standard for-hire hauling, USF Glen Moore's offerings include teams of drivers (for faster service) and dedicated fleet services, in which drivers and equipment are assigned to a customer long-term. Founded in 1986, the company operates as the sole truckload business within YRC Truckload, a business segment of YRC Worldwide.

Watco Companies, Inc. was founded in 1983 by Dick Webb, and is led by his son, Rick. Watco's world of railcar services is a wide one. Watco Companies operates 20 short-line railroads, primarily in the midwestern and southern US but also in the Pacific Northwest and in Appalachia. In addition, Watco offers industrial contract switching services, in which the company operates some two dozen railcar switching facilities located on the sites of manufacturers and other companies that ship freight by rail. Watco also leases and repairs railcars, locomotives, and other equipment; provides warehousing and distribution services, including temperature-controlled storage; and offers transloading of cargo between trucks and trains.

Swift, but within the speed limit: Truckload carrier Swift Holdings hauls freight, such as building materials, paper products, and retail merchandise, throughout the US, Canada, and Mexico. The company operates a fleet of some 16,200 tractors (about 75% of which are company-owned), and 49,400 trailers, via a network of 35 terminals. Its services include dedicated contract carriage, in which drivers and equipment are assigned to a customer long-term. Besides standard dry vans, Swift's fleet includes refrigerated, flatbed, and specialized trailers, and about 4,300 intermodal containers. Founder and CEO Jerry Moyes took the company private in 2007. In mid-2010 Swift filed to once again become public.

Man makes his own shipwreck, but Smit Internationale has the favor of Neptune on its side. In business for some 170 years, Smit is a global provider of marine salvage services. It is known for its historic retrieval of the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk. Smit company also transports freight in oceangoing, coastal, and river barges, and operates sheerlegs -- floating cranes used in offshore and inland construction projects. Other Smit divisions provide ocean and harbor towage services and manage marine terminals. Smit Internationale N.V. operates a fleet of more than 400 vessels, including about 230 tugboats. In April 2010, Smit was acquired by dredging company Royal Boskalis Westminster for E1.4 billion (about $2 billion).

MC Shipping is owned by an investment fund managed by Irving Place Capital, an affiliate of private equity firm Bear Stearns Merchant Banking. MC Shipping knows the rap when it comes to ocean freight transportation. The company's fleet of more than 20 vessels consists mainly of LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) carriers; it also includes containerships. MC Shipping leases its vessels on time charters, bareboat charters (in which the lessee provides its own crew), and spot charters. Day-to-day operation of the company's fleet is overseen by independent ship-management companies. It has offices in Indonesia, London, Monaco, and Singapore.

CCC Transportation (formerly Commercial Carrier Corporation) transports construction materials and other freight with a fleet of more than 1,000 tractors and 2,000 trailers, including dry vans, dry bulk tankers, and flatbeds. Cargo hauled by the company includes dry bulk commodities (cement, fly ash, ground limestone, lime, and slag), consumer products (beverages, glassware, and paper products), and building materials (concrete products, drywall, and lumber). CCC maintains terminals in Florida, Georgia, and Virginia and provides freight transportation services throughout the southeastern US. The company, which was founded in 1953, is a subsidiary of Comcar Industries.

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