Coras Iompair Eireann is king of the road (and rail) in Ireland. The company, known as the CIE Group, operates the Dublin Bus, Bus Atha Cliath, and Bus Eireann units as well as the Iarnrod Eireann passenger and freight rail system. Most of the CIÉ Group's revenue comes from its road passenger operations. Other operations include tourism, property sales, food service, and outdoor advertising sales. The company's CIE Tours International bus tour company primarily does business in North America. The CIE Group is wholly owned by the government of Ireland.

Genesee & Wyoming Inc., through its subsidiaries, owns and operates short line and regional freight railroads in the United States, Australia, Canada, and the Netherlands. The company’s railroads transport various commodities, such as coal, coke, and ores; pulp and paper; metals; minerals and stone; lumber and forest products; farm and food products; chemicals and plastics; petroleum products; autos and auto parts; and municipal waste and haulage traffic. As of December 31, 2009, it owned, leased, or operated 62 short line and regional freight railroads with approximately 6,000 miles of owned and leased track; and approximately 3,400 additional miles under track access arrangements. The company provided rail service at 16 ports in North America and Europe. The company also provides railcar switching services; railcar hire and rental services; demurrage and storage services; and freight car repair services, as well as sells diesel fuel to other rail operators. Genesee & Wyoming Inc. was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Kansas City Southern, through its subsidiaries, engages primarily in the freight rail transportation business. It operates north/south rail between Kansas City, Missouri, and various ports along the Gulf of Mexico in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas in the midwest and southeast regions of the United States. The company also operates direct rail passageway between Mexico City and Laredo in Texas, serving various Mexico’s industrial cities and 3 of its shipping ports; and a 157-mile rail line extending from Laredo, Texas to the port city of Corpus Christi, Texas, as well as owns the northern half of the rail bridge at Laredo, Texas. In addition, Kansas City Southern holds a concession to operate a 47-mile railroad located adjacent to the Panama Canal, as well as operates and promotes commuter and tourist passenger services. Further, Kansas City Southern operates a bulk materials handling facility with deep-water access to the Gulf of Mexico at Port Arthur, Texas that stores and transfers petroleum coke from rail cars to ships primarily for export; and a railroad wood tie treatment facility. It serves customers conducting business in various industries, including electric-generating utilities, chemical and petroleum products, industrial and consumer products, agriculture and mineral products, automotive products, and intermodal freight transportation. Kansas City Southern was formerly known as Kansas City Southern Industries, Inc. and changed its name to Kansas City Southern in 2002. Kansas City Southern was founded in 1962 and is based in Kansas City, Missouri.

DB Schenker Rail UK was created in 1996 through a merger of several units of the former national monopoly, British Rail, which had been privatized. German rail transport and logistics giant Deutsche Bahn acquired the company in 2007 and integrated the company with its DB Schenker unit. DB Schenker Rail UK (formerly English Welsh & Scottish Railway) serves as the backbone of the UK's freight rail. Operating hundreds of trains daily, it hauls goods for businesses in the construction, energy, and manufacturing sectors. Besides offering coverage throughout its home country, the company provides service to continental Europe through the Channel Tunnel via a joint venture with French rail operator SNCF.

Tobu Railway was founded in 1897. Tobu Railway boasts the second-longest track network -- more than 460 kilometers (285 miles) -- of any passenger railroad in the Kanto region of Japan, which includes the Tokyo metropolitan area. (East Japan Railway has a larger network.) Although the company's railway passenger and freight transportation divisions make up the company's namesake business, Tobu Railway operates three other divisions: distribution, leisure, and real estate. The distribution division operates department and convenience stores.

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.

JR East's "shinkansen" (bullet-train) lines connect metropolitan Tokyo with other major cities. Besides its transportation-related operations, JR East gets revenue from leasing restaurant and retail space in its stations and from managing shopping centers and office buildings on property that has been developed near its stations. If you want to ride the rails into Tokyo, you could find yourself cruising at 168 mph aboard a bullet train operated by East Japan Railway, known as JR East. East Japan Railway company carries passengers on more than 7,525 km (4,665 miles) of track in the eastern half of the Japanese mainland, including the Tokyo area.

Canadian Pacific Railway Limited was founded in 1881 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada. Canadian Pacific Railway Limited operates independently of Canadian Pacific Limited, as of October 01, 2001. Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides rail and intermodal freight transportation services. It transports bulk commodities, including grain, coal, sulphur, and fertilizers; and merchandise freight that consists of finished vehicles and automotive parts. The company also transports forest products, such as wood pulp, paper, paperboard, newsprint, lumber, panel, and oriented strand board; and industrial and consumer products, which include chemicals, plastics, aggregates, steel, mine, ethanol, and other energy related products. In addition, it transports intermodal traffic comprising time-sensitive retail goods. As of December 31, 2009, Canadian Pacific Railway Limited provided rail and intermodal freight transportation services over a 15,400-mile network. It serves the principal business centers of Canada, which include Montreal, Quebec, Vancouver, and British Columbia; and the Midwest and Northeast regions of the United States.

Transportation and logistics is Werner Enterprises' game; hauling truckload shipments -- both interstate and intrastate -- is its fame. Among the five largest truckload carriers in the US, Werner operates about 7,250 tractors and 23,880 trailers. Its trailer fleet consists of dry vans and, to a lesser extent, temperature-controlled vans and flatbeds. Werner's truckload transportation offerings include dedicated contract carriage, in which drivers and equipment are assigned to a customer. It also offers freight brokerage, intermodal freight transportation arrangement, and other value-added logistic services, as well as freight forwarding. Retailers, consumer and grocery products companies represent 75% of sales.

Traffic lights smooth the flow of vehicles through intersections, and Traffic Management smoothes the flow of freight worldwide. Catering mainly to the Minnesota region, the company provides a wide range of domestic and international transportation management and freight forwarding services, including the coordination of freight movement by truck, train, ship, and plane. Company president Dawn Montez founded Traffic Management in 1997.

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