Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) is up there in the pantheon of the world's largest container shipping and logistics companies. Through its APL subsidiary, NOL provides container transportation on the world's major ocean trade routes with a fleet of about 140 vessels. Container shipping services account for about 80% of the company's sales. Its APL Logistics unit provides supply chain management services, primarily in the Americas but also in the Asia/Pacific region and Europe. A third business, APL Terminals, operates container terminals in the Americas and the Asia/Pacific region. Through various entities, the government of Singapore controls about two-thirds of NOL.

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.

C.R. England hauls refrigerated and dry cargo throughout the US. The company also serves parts of Canada and, through alliances, parts of Mexico. C.R. England's fleet includes some 3,500 tractors and about 5,700 trailers. Besides for-hire freight hauling, C.R. England offers dedicated contract carriage, in which drivers and equipment are assigned to a customer long-term; logistics services, including freight brokerage; and intermodal railroad service. C.R. England was founded in 1920 by Chester Rodney England and is run by his descendants.

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.

Marine transportation company Sea Star Line carries cargo between the US and Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, the US Virgin Islands, and the Caribbean on three combination roll-on/roll-off/lift-on/lift-off vessels. (The vessels are so named because shipping containers, cars, and heavy equipment can be rolled onto them on chassis or lifted on by cranes.) Saltchuk Resources, owner of Totem Ocean Trailer Express, owns 90% of Sea Star Lines; Puerto Rico-based Taino Star owns 10%. Sea Star is subject to the Jones Act, a federal law that allows only vessels controlled and operated by US companies to transport cargo between US ports.

TKK Logistics was acquired by Kintetsu World Express in December 2008. By air and sea, this company kares for your kargo. TKK Logistics (formerly Thai Kargo Kare) provides air and sea freight forwarding services in Thailand. (Freight forwarders purchase transportation capacity from carriers and resell it to customers.) Founded in 1986, TKK Logistics also operates as a charter broker, international cargo consolidator, licensed customs broker, and warehouser and packager. Its packaging offerings range from small cartons to large wooden pallets for heavy machinery. It also specializes in removal and reinstallation of heavy machines. A 215,000-square-foot warehouse supports its warehousing and delivery operations.

Once a part of "the world's most experienced airline," freight carrier Pan Am Railways operates over a network of about 2,000 miles of track in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont, and Canada's Atlantic provinces. The company's system is made up primarily of the former Boston & Maine, Maine Central, and Springfield Terminal railroads. Along with its railroad operations the company owns trademarks associated with aviation pioneer Pan Am; Pan Am Railways' boxcars have been painted to include the defunct air carrier's blue-and-white globe logo.

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.

The MTA's New York City Transit Authority runs a fleet of some 6,300 buses in New York's five boroughs, and with about 8,700 rail and subway cars, it provides subway service to all but Staten Island and operates the Staten Island Railway. Other MTA units offer bus and rail service to Connecticut and Long Island and maintain the Triborough system of toll bridges and tunnels. No Sigma Chi or Chi Omega chapter has anything on New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) -- it rushes millions of people every day. The largest public transportation system in the US, the government-owned MTA provides about 2.6 billion passenger trips and about 300 million vehicles travel the MTA system annually.

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.

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