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.

Go-Ahead is one of the UK's leading providers of passenger transport services operating primarily in the bus and rail sectors. Through our companies we aim to provide efficient, integrated and sustainable local public transport systems. Employing around 22,000 people across the country, over one billion passenger journeys are undertaken on our bus and rail services each year. We believe that a strong and growing public transport network is key to the sustainable future of the UK. Bus and rail play a vital role in meeting environmental challenges such as reducing traffic congestion and carbon emissions. Transport is also fundamental to the economy as a means of connecting people and moving goods. In addition to the travelling public, our customers include the Department for Transport (DfT), Transport for London (TfL) and local authorities.

Throughout our history, American Steamship Company (ASC) has been a pioneer in Great Lakes vessel transportation. Founded in Buffalo, New York in 1907, American Steamship Company has witnessed and responded to dramatic changes in Great Lakes shipping and the industries it serves, many times leading the way with innovative solutions that have had a positive impact on lakes shipping throughout the years. Our Great Lakes fleet consists of self-unloading vessels that range in length from 635-feet to 1,000-feet. The diversity of our asset base enables us to transport a variety of dry bulk commodities including iron ore pellets, coal and limestone aggregates. Our single trip vessel carrying capacity ranges from 24,000 to 70,000 net tons. During the navigation season, our vessels operate twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week and require no onshore assistance to unload cargo. Unloading speeds range from 7,000 to 10,000 net tons per hour. Today, under the ownership of GATX Corporation, ASC continues to provide safe, efficient and environmentally responsible waterborne transportation. We are dedicated to continuously building value for GATX, our customers, our employees and the communities in which we live and operate.

Air T, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides overnight air cargo, ground equipment sales, and ground support services. Its Overnight Air Cargo segment offers small package overnight airfreight delivery services on a contract basis to the air express delivery services industry. The company’s Ground Equipment Sales segment manufactures, sells, and services aircraft ground support and other specialized equipment products, including aircraft deicers, scissor type lifts, military and civilian decontamination units, and other specialized types of equipment. This segment offers its products to domestic and international passenger and cargo airlines, ground handling companies, the United States Air Force and Navy, airports, and industrial customers. Its Ground Support Services segment provides ground support equipment maintenance and facilities maintenance services to domestic airlines and aviation service providers. As of March 31, 2009, the company operated 82 cargo aircrafts under dry-lease service contracts in the United States and the Caribbean. Air T, Inc. was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Maiden, North Carolina.

Celebrate the short, sweet ride: Anacostia Rail Holdings owns short line railroads that offer freight and passenger transportation services. The company operates through the Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad (182 miles in Illinois and Indiana), Gulf Coast Switching (contract switching, Texas), Louisville & Indiana Railroad (113 miles, Indianapolis to Louisville, Kentucky), New York & Atlantic Railway (269 miles, Long Island), Northern Lines Railway (25 miles, Minnesota), and Pacific Harbor Line (59 miles connecting points between the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California). Anacostia railroads run on company-owned track and on lines owned by other railroads, as well as offer logistics services.

Panalpina World Transport opened its first UK office in 1921. No mere mountainclimber, Panalpina covers the world. A unit of Switzerland-based Panalpina World Transport (Holding), Panalpina World Transport provides freight forwarding and supply chain management services for customers in the UK. Panalpina World Transport Ltd. offers both airfreight and ocean freight forwarding. It specializes in service to companies in the energy industry, and it also draws customers from sectors such as automotive, electronics and telecommunications, retail, and health care.

Trailer Bridge, Inc., an integrated trucking and marine freight carrier, provides freight transportation services between the continental United States, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. It provides services through southbound containers and trailers, as well as through marine vessels that are configured to carry 48 inch and 53 inch long, and 102 inch wide high-cube equipment. The company also involves in moving new and used automobiles, non-containerized or freight not in trailers, and freight moving in shipper owned or leased equipment. It offers highway transportation services in the continental United States; and marine transportation services between Jacksonville, Florida, San Juan, Puerto Rico and Puerto Plata, and the Dominican Republic. The company also provides rail transportation services. In addition, it engages in chartering its vessels that are not in liner service to third party operators. Trailer Bridge, Inc. ships furniture, apparel, consumer goods, and raw materials for manufacturing, electronics, apparel, and new and used automobiles to Puerto Rico; and healthcare products, pharmaceuticals, electronics, shoes, and recyclables from Puerto Rico. As of December 31, 2009, it owned and operated a fleet of 134 tractors comprising 80 company owned units, and 54 leased and owner operated units; 3,924 high cube containers; 3,158 chassis; 210 high-cube trailers; 299 vehicle transport modules; 204 dry van trailers; 2 736’ triple-deck, ro/ro ocean-going barges and 2 403’ TBC’s, as well as leased 314 chassis and 482 high-cube containers, and chartered 3 TBC’s. Trailer Bridge, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.

Seaspan's containerships span the globe for major headliners. Seaspan Corporation charters its lineup of vessels on long-term contracts to liner operators that need to expand their fleets. Customers have included China Shipping Container Lines, COSCON (a unit of China COSCO Holdings), and Hapag-Lloyd USA, a subsidiary of Hapag-Lloyd. Seaspan maintains a fleet of nearly 70 vessels with an overall capacity of more than 187,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). Seaspan Corporation is part of the Washington Marine Group, which in turn is an affiliate of The Washington Companies, a group of transportation- and natural resources-related businesses controlled by Dennis Washington.

Velocity Express Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides logistics solutions to consumers and businesses in the United States and Canada. It offers distribution logistics services, which include the receipt of customer bulk shipments that are divided and sorted at metropolitan locations and delivered to multiple locations; scheduled logistics services comprising daily pickup and delivery of parcels; and expedited logistics services, including expedited point-to-point service for customers with time sensitive delivery requirements. The company primarily serves customers operating in the healthcare, office products, financial services, commercial, retail and consumer products, transportation and logistics, energy, and technology sectors. Velocity Express Corporation was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Westport, Connecticut. On September 24, 2009, Velocity Express Corporation, along with its affiliates, filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

SPT (also known as Skaugen PetroTrans) may not be in the light industry sector, but it is engaged in lightering -- the offshore transfer of crude oil from the largest tankers to smaller vessels that can enter ports. It operates a fleet of two Aframax tankers and six lightering support vessels. The company performs its services around the globe, including the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, the US Atlantic Coast, US Pacific Coast, and the Persian Gulf. When SPT isn't lightering, it provides support services, such as overseeing fuel transfers and providing equipment and personnel. SPT Inc. is owned by I.M. Skaugen and Teekay Corporation, which bought a 50% stake in SPT in 2003.

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