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.

Established in 1978, the company is owned by the Canadian government. In Canada, you can get where you're going via rail. VIA Rail Canada is Canada's national passenger rail service. The company operates some 500 trains weekly and carries about 4 million passengers a year. Its tracks span more than 12,500 km (7,760 miles) from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Great Lakes to Hudson Bay. With a fleet of about 80 locomotives and 400 passenger cars, the company serves more than 450 communities. VIA Rail offers travel packages aimed at domestic and foreign tourists, along with basic intercity transportation.

The main US arm of Toronto-based company Vitran, Vitran Express provides less-than-truckload (LTL) freight transportation services. (LTL carriers consolidate freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) Vitran Express operates from a network of about 110 terminals in about 30 states in the midwestern, mid-Atlantic, southwestern, and western US. The company extends service elsewhere in the US through alliances with other LTL carriers. In addition, Vitran Express partners with its parent's Canadian LTL unit to offer cross-border service.

One of Germany's largest family-owned enterprises, Dr. August Oetker is the holding company for the diversified Oetker Group, which has interests in shipping (Hamburg Sud), food (frozen pizza and baking mixes), beer and nonalcoholic beverages, and wine, sparkling wine, and spirits. The company's shipping division, its largest, has operations worldwide; Oetker Group's food and spirits businesses are concentrated in Europe. Other Oetker Group activities include banking and insurance, book publishing, chemical manufacturing, and luxury hotels. Not only are beer and pizza staples of many a college student's diet, they are also key elements of Dr. August Oetker's business portfolio.

With about 16,500 kilometers (10,200 miles) of track, Italy's government-owned Ferrovie dello Stato provides the backbone of the nation's rail transportation system. Ferrovie dello Stato operates through two main divisions: Trenitalia, which manages the transport of goods and passengers; and Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI), which manages the railway network and maintains rail infrastructure. Services include high-speed passenger trains that can travel at more than 190 mph. Ferrovie dello Stato also manages Italy's main train stations and surrounding commercial complexes.

Abdon Callais Offshore, LLC was founded in 1945 by Abdon Callais, grandfather of president and CEO Peter Callais. The Callais family controls the company; other backers have included private equity firm Stonehenge Capital. Abdon Callais Offshore provides freight and passenger transportation services to the offshore oil and gas industry. Abdon Callais Offshore company operates its fleet of about 75 supply vessels, utility vessels, and crew boats in the Gulf of Mexico, serving coastal, shelf, and deepwater projects. It counts both production companies and service companies among its customers.

Truckload carrier USA Truck moves freight not only in the US, but also in Canada, and, through partners, into Mexico. It does most of its business east of the Rocky Mountains. USA Truck has a fleet of about 2,300 tractors and 7,200 trailers. It transports general commodities; customers include companies in the consumer goods, industrial machinery and equipment, paper products, rubber and plastics, and retail industries. The company provides both medium-haul (800-1,200 mile) and regional (500-mile) truckload services, along with dedicated contract carriage, in which drivers and equipment are assigned to a customer long-term. The company's average length-of-haul is about 600-miles.

Koch (pronounced "cook") Companies' collection of eight operating units offers a full menu of transportation services, including truckload freight hauling, logistics, warehousing, and truck and trailer leasing. The company's operations include both long-haul and regional truckload transportation in the US 48-states, as well as capacity in Canada. It also provides dedicated contract carriage, in which drivers and equipment are often assigned to a retailer long-term. Overall it drives a fleet of about 650 tractors and 1,820 trailers. Led by its founder's second generation, Koch Companies is not related to the Kansas-based conglomerate Koch Industries, which is owned by a family that pronounces its name "coke."

Willis Shaw Express knows how to keep its cool. The company provides truckload transportation of frozen and refrigerated food items throughout the continental US with a fleet of about 700 tractors and 1,100 trailers. Its main operations are coordinated from facilities in Arkansas, Florida, and Idaho; in addition, the company provides regional service from a facility in Georgia. Willis D. Shaw founded the company in 1938 to haul live chickens out of Arkansas. Comcar Industries bought the former Willis Shaw Frozen Express in 1987.

Omega Navigation Enterprises Inc. provides marine transportation services through the ownership and operation of double hull product tankers worldwide. Its product tankers transport refined petroleum products, including gasoline, jet fuel, kerosene, naphtha, gas oil, and heating oil. The company’s fleet includes 12 hull product tankers with a carrying capacity of approximately 680,000 dwt, of which 2 double hull product/chemical tankers with a capacity of 47,000 dwt and 2 double hull product/chemical tankers with a capacity of 37,000 dwt are owned through equal partnership joint ventures with a subsidiary of Glencore International, A.G. Omega Navigation Enterprises Inc. was founded in 2005 and is based in Athens, Greece.

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