The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets railroad freight car equipment in the United States, Mexico, and Poland. It offers double-stack railcars; boxcars used in forest products, automotive, perishables, and general merchandise applications; covered hopper cars for grain and cement industries; gondolas and coil cars for the steel and metal markets; conventional railcars; center partition cars for the forest products industry; bulkhead flat cars; flat cars for automotive transportation; and solid waste service flat cars. The company also provides pressurized tank cars for liquid petroleum gas and ammonia; non pressurized tank cars for light oil and chemical products; coal cars; and sliding wall cars, as well as ocean-going barges, including conventional deck barges, double-hull tank barges, railcar/deck barges, barges for aggregates, and other heavy industrial products and ocean-going dump barges. In addition, it involves in the repair and refurbishment of railcars for third parties, as well as for its own leased and managed fleet; provision of wheel services, including reconditioning of wheels, axles, and roller bearings; and production of recondition railcar cushioning units, couplers, yokes, side frames, and bolsters, as well as roofs, doors, and associated parts for boxcars. Further, the company offers finance lease programs. Additionally, it provides management services that comprise railcar maintenance management; railcar accounting services, such as billing and revenue collection, and car hire receivable and payable administration; and fleet management, including railcar tracking, administration, and remarketing. The company also produces railcar castings through a joint venture. It owns approximately 9,000 railcars and provides management services to approximately 217,000 railcars for railroads, shippers, carriers, and other leasing and transportation companies. The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. was founded in 1974 and is based in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

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.

Dynamex knows the dynamics of same-day delivery. Dynamex company provides both scheduled and on-demand delivery of time-sensitive items such as medical supplies, financial documents, and office products. It has built its delivery services around a network of ground couriers that focus on intracity deliveries. Most of its drivers are independent contractors; it uses third-party air and ground carriers to fulfill same-day intercity services. Dynamex also supports customers in outsourcing certain logistics functions, including management of dedicated vehicle fleets and facilities -- such as mailrooms and inventory-tracking call centers. In 2010 the company agreed to be acquired by affiliates of Greenbriar Equity.

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.

Aspo supports the energy and process industries in the Baltic Sea area. The group operates through four divisions: ESL Shipping, Leipurin, Telko, and Aspo Ventures. ESL Shipping transports raw materials for energy producers and heavy-industry sectors, while Leipurin specializes in supplying the bakery industry with ingredients, equipment, and other supplies. Its Telko chemicals unit imports and distributes industrial chemicals and plastic raw materials, and Aspo Ventures mainly offers maintenance services and automation systems for service stations under the Autotank and Kaukomarkkinat brands. Aspo expanded its operations in mid-2008 when it acquired Kauko-Telko Oy from fellow Finnish company Kesko Corporation.

FreeSeas Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as an international dry bulk shipping company. The company transports various dry bulk commodities, including coal, grains, and iron ore, as well as bauxite, phosphate, fertilizers, steel products, sugar, and rice worldwide. As of December 31, 2008, its fleet consisted of seven Handysize vessels and two Handymax vessels. FreeSeas Inc. was founded in 2004 and is based in Piraeus, Greece.

Cassens will be happy to transport your car, sell you a car, or insure your car -- Cassens company operates a car-hauling business, a car dealership, and an insurance agency. Cassens Transport, the company's largest venture, delivers new vehicles from manufacturers to dealerships. It operates a fleet of about 1,300 tractor-trailer rigs from terminals in 10 US states and in four Canadian cities. Cassens' car dealership, Cassens & Sons, sells Chrysler vehicles in Glen Carbon, Illinois. Cassens Insurance Agency sells auto, home, and other policies in Edwardsville, Illinois.

American Overseas Marine (AMSEA) is not a member of the armed forces stationed in a faraway land, but it does have connections to the US Navy. The company, part of the Marine Systems unit of defense contractor General Dynamics, manages and operates ships for the Military Sealift Command, an arm of the Navy. With a fleet of about 15 vessels, AMSEA transports cargo such as military equipment, supplies, food, and medicine to troops deployed overseas. Its fleet includes large, medium-speed, roll-on/roll-off (LMSR) vessels, which are designed to carry tanks and armored personnel carriers, and maritime pre-positioning ships (MPS), which are equipped with helicopter landing decks as well as room for freight.

IAIS was formed in 1984 and acquired by RDC in 2004. Regional freight carrier Iowa Interstate Railroad (IAIS) operates over about 600 miles of track running from Omaha, Nebraska, to Chicago, passing through Iowa along the way. IAIS hauls cargo such as agricultural products, chemicals, coal, ethanol forest products, intermodal containers and trailers, and steel. Because of its central location, the IAIS system connects with all of North America's largest railroads. IAIS has intermodal facilities in Blue Island, Illinois, and Council Bluffs, Iowa. Iowa Interstate Railroad Ltd. company is a subsidiary of Pittsburgh-based railroad management and investment company Railroad Development Corp. (RDC).

This New Penn is a regional, less-than-truckload (LTL) freight carrier that operates in the northeastern US. (LTL carriers consolidate freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) Next-day deliveries in the New England and mid-Atlantic regions make up the bulk of New Penn Motor Express' shipments; the company also offers service in Canada and in Puerto Rico. It operates a fleet of about 850 tractors and 1,700 trailers from a network of more than 20 terminals. Connections with other carriers, including sister companies in the YRC Regional Transportation family, enable New Penn to provide coast-to-coast service in the US and Canada.

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