Interstate Distributor provides truckload freight transportation and a full set of complementary offerings. The company's services include standard dry van, temperature-controlled, and heavy cargo hauling, dedicated contract carriage, warehousing and distribution, and intermodal marketing (arrangement of freight transportation by multiple methods, such as truck and train). Interstate Distributor's fleet consists of some 2,200 tractors and 7,400 trailers. The company operates primarily in the western US, but it provides service throughout the 48 contiguous states and in Alaska, Canada, and parts of Mexico. Interstate Distributor was founded in 1933.

AIT Worldwide Logistics maintains about 40 offices in the US, and operates overseas through 330 global service centers and a network of agents. Steven Leturno and Dan Lisowski, who still advise the company, founded AIT Worldwide Logistics in 1979. Arranging the transportation of its customers' cargo by air, land, and sea, AIT Worldwide Logistics provides domestic and international freight forwarding services, including customs brokerage. It also offers supply chain management, including information services that help customers keep track of their freight. Customers have come from a variety of industries; the company's specialties include service to government agencies and handling of perishable products.

Polskie Koleje Panstwowe (PKP) keeps chugging along in Poland. One of the largest railways in Europe, it operates passenger rail services, such as PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe, PKP Intercity and PKP Regional, as well as freight transport (PKP Cargo). Polskie Koleje Panstwowe S.A. also manages some 2,500 train stations in Poland. PKP has various other entities involved in real estate, tourism, energy, telecommunications, and IT services. PKP was formed in 2001, when the state-owned Polish Railway Lines was restructured due to new European Union guidelines.

Clarke has Canada covered coast-to-coast. Through Clarke Transport and Clarke Road Transport, the firm provides truckload and less-than-truckload (LTL) freight transportation. (LTL carriers consolidate loads from multiple shippers into a single trailer.) Clarke hauls a variety of goods, including building materials, beverages, metals, pharmaceuticals, and retail products. Its CIS Shipping International runs a time charter vessel transporting goods between Florida and Grand Cayman. Founded in 1921, Clarke operates primarily in Canada, but also in Mexico and the US.

FastShip is developing a high-speed container vessel that would allow the company to transport freight across the Atlantic in less than four days. Finding money to build the ships has taken much longer, however. Once financing has been arranged, Spanish shipyard IZAR is to begin construction of the first three vessels. Loading systems and terminals have been designed for the FastShip system; plans call for the first two terminals to be in Philadelphia and Cherbourg, France. FastShip hopes eventually to serve other shipping lanes, as well.

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).

Truckload carrier Millis Transfer, which operates mainly in the eastern half of the US, concentrates on the transport of beer, food, glass, and paper. The company maintains a fleet of some 700 tractors and 2,200 trailers. Millis Transfer began as an Old Style beer distributorship during Prohibition in 1936. CEO Bill Millis owns a majority stake in the company.

Founded as a moving company in 1920, Hassett Air Express is owned by CEO Terry Sherman and CFO Donna O'Reilly. Hassett Storage Warehouses, which does business as Hassett Air Express, provides express air and ground freight forwarding to customers across the US. (Freight forwarders buy transportation capacity from carriers and resell it to customers.) Hassett Air Express operates from eight locations in the US and through a network of agents overseas, with customers coming from the publishing, entertainment, manufacturing, and automotive industries. It offers same-day and next-day service, charter service, and operates a segment for transporting materials to trade shows.

Bollore makes paper, but it's no paper tiger. Bollore company operates mainly in the transportation and logistics, manufacturing (plastic films and specialty papers), and fuel distribution businesses. Its largest segment, transportation and logistics, includes freight forwarding services and port operations. (As a freight forwarder, Bollore company buys transportation capacity from carriers and resells it to customers.) Bollore offers logistics services worldwide but focuses on trade between Europe and Africa, where Bollore company is a leading port operator. Financiere de l'Odet, a holding company whose principal shareholder is Bollore chairman Vincent Bollore, owns a controlling stake in Bollore company.

Team Worldwide is a diversified logistic provider that offers "best in class" solutions for its clients around the globe. In 1979, Joe E. Brunson and son Bobby J. Brunson saw a unique opportunity to set in motion a domestic freight forwarding company that would operate as a cohesive business unit in cities around the United States, connected by a single support system. Since that time, Team Worldwide has evolved from the traditional airfreight forwarder into a Global Logistics Provider. Team Worldwide is comprised of the service companies of Team Air Express, Team Transportation, Team Ocean Services and Team Customs Brokerage. Offerings include domestic and international air cargo service, domestic surface transportation, warehousing/distribution capabilities and other ancillary service capabilities that provide Team's customers a competitive advantage in the marketplace.Our unique business model of providing local solutions while realizing the global supply chain impact has differentiated us from the competition. The name Team has become synonymous with reliability, innovation and quality. Driven by the same entrepreneurial spirit that created Team, we provide the solutions you have been seeking. Whatever the need, whatever the time, we are ready and available to meet your needs.

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