Navigazione Montanari S.p.A. was founded in 1889 by Captain Giovanni Montanari with a single sailing ship. Navigazione Montanari knows how oil and gas get from the producer to the consumer. The company's fleet of more than 15 vessels consists of LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) carriers, petroleum product tankers, and crude oil tankers. Navigazione Montanari's gas carriers, which include pressurized and refrigerated vessels, carry such cargo as ethylene, propane, butane, propylene, and anhydrous ammonia. The company's product tankers primarily transport liquid chemical products. Navigazione Montanari is controlled by the Montanari family.

Lan Airlines S.A., together with its subsidiaries, provides passenger and cargo air transportation services in Latin America. The company offers air cargo transportation services to other international air carriers, freight-forwarding companies, export oriented companies, and individual consumers. It also provides customs and storage brokerage, aircraft leases, courier, on-board sales, tour operator, third-party maintenance, and ground handling services. The company serves approximately 72 destinations through a network that offers connectivity in Latin America; and links the region with North America, Europe, and the South Pacific, as well as 70 additional international destinations through various alliances. As of February 28, 2010, it operated a fleet of 96 jet aircraft, which comprised of 86 passenger aircraft and 11 cargo aircraft. The company offers its services in Chile, Peru, Argentina, Ecuador, and Brazil; and operates a series of regional and international routes in the United States, Europe, and Oceania. It has strategic partnerships with American Airlines, Iberia, and Qantas. The company was formerly known as Lan Chile S.A. Lan Airlines S.A. was founded in 1929 and is based in Santiago, Chile.

Will Wilh. Wilhelmsen (WW) be at the helm of the ship carrying your next vehicle? Through several subsidiaries, WW offers marine transportation via a fleet comprising mainly car carriers and ro-ro (roll on, roll off) vessels. The company owns a minority stake in EUKOR, which operates 85 car carriers that primarily move Hyundai and Kia autos from Korea. EUKOR also serves automakers such as BMW, Ford, General Motors, Mazda, Suzuki, Volkswagen, and Volvo. Annually it transports about 3 million autos to 160 ports in 110 countries. Along with freight transportation, WW provides logistics and supply chain management services through its Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics subsidiary, which it plans to take public.

The Panalpina group is one of the world’s leading suppliers of forwarding and logistics services, specializing in end-to-end supply chain management solutions and intercontinental air freight and ocean freight shipments. Thanks to its in-depth industry knowledge and state-of-the-art IT systems, Panalpina provides globally integrated door-to-door services tailored to its customers’ individual needs. The Panalpina Group operates a close-knit network with some 500 branches in more than 80 countries. In a further 80 countries, it cooperates closely with partner companies. Panalpina employs about 14,000 people worldwide.

Founded in 1936, Honolulu Freight Service is family-owned and -operated. Freight forwarder Honolulu Freight Service (HFS) arranges ocean transportation of dry and refrigerated cargo between the continental US and Hawaii and through an interisland network. In addition to freight forwarding (purchasing transportation capacity from carriers and reselling it to customers), HFS offers short-term warehousing and distribution services. It handles partial and full container loads for a variety of industries, including hospitality, construction, retail, military, and food. Honolulu Freight Service maintains offices in Chicago; Los Angeles; Honolulu; Oakland and Stockton, California; Portland, Oregon; and Seattle.

Montana Rail Link, Inc. (MRL) is an FRA Class II regional railroad that has been partnering with businesses for over twenty years to ship their freight across Montana, the nation and the globe. The MRL system consists of more than 900 miles of track serving over 100 stations in the states of Montana, Idaho and Washington. It is one of Montana’s major employers, providing jobs for approximately 900 people living in towns all along our route. Our dedicated employees serve their home communities through involvement in a wide variety of causes.MRL is one of the independently operated Washington Companies, founded by Montana industrialist Dennis R. Washington. It is headquartered in Missoula, Montana and is privately held. Major freight classification yards and car repair shops are situated at Laurel and Missoula. The majority of the locomotive maintenance is done at a repair facility in Livingston. Montana Rail Link connects with the Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) at Laurel and Garrison, Montana as well as Spokane, Washington. It connects with the Union Pacific Railroad at Sandpoint, Idaho. The majority of MRL’s main line is single track with passing sidings and is controlled by Centralized Traffic Control from the Transportation Center in Missoula. The railroad is one of two operating within the Washington Companies. The other, Southern Railway of British Columbia (SRY Rail Link), is also a Class II based in New Westminster, B.C., Canada.

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.

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.

EPES Carriers is one of the largest private transportation companies in the southeastern US. Through its subsidiaries, EPES Carriers covers the US, Canada, and Mexico with a fleet of some 1,100 tractors and 3,300 trailers. Its Epes Transport Systems provides US truckload service; Epes Logistic Services arranges for truckload deliveries in the continental US, Canada, and Mexico; Epes Freight Management handles expedited, less-than-truckload, and truckload management services such as carrier bid negotiations, claim filing, freight quotes, and routing; and Texas Star Express handles truckload for the midwest and southwest US.

StealthGas Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the ownership of a fleet of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carriers that provide international seaborne transportation services to LPG producers and users in Greece and internationally. It carries various petroleum and petrochemical gas products in liquefied form, including propane, butane, butadiene, isopropane, propylene, and vinyl chloride monomer, which are byproducts in the production of crude oil and natural gas. The company offers its services to producers of LPG products, such as national and other independent energy companies and energy traders; and industrial users of those products. It also charters product carriers that carry refined petroleum products comprising gasoline, diesel, fuel oil, and jet fuel, as well as edible oils and chemicals. As of June 15, 2009, StealthGas had a fleet of 39 LPG carriers with a carrying capacity of 173,499 cubic meters, as well as 2 product carriers with a capacity of 94,000 deadweight tones. StealthGas Inc. was founded in 2004 and is based in Kifisia, Greece.

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