Companhia do Metropolitano de Sao Paulo - Metro is part of Brazil's underground. It operates the subway system serving the Sao Paulo, Brazil, metropolitan area. Often referred to as simply the Sao Paulo Metro or the Metro, the mass transit system consists of about 40 miles of track, runs on four lines, and operates some 55 underground and above ground stations. In service since 1974, the Metro moves more than three million passengers each day. The system is part of The Secretariat of Metropolitan Transports, an agency of the Government of the State of Sao Paulo.

American Railcar Industries, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets hopper and tank railcars in North America. It operates in two segments: Manufacturing Operations and Railcar Services. The Manufacturing Operations segment manufactures general service and specialty hopper railcars that are used to transport, load, and unload grains, cement, plastic pallets, and bulk powders; and non-pressure and high pressure tank railcars used in handling various commodities, including petroleum products, ethanol, asphalt, vegetable oil, corn syrup and other food products, chlorine, anhydrous ammonia, and liquid propane and butane. This segment also manufactures custom and standard railcar components that comprise tank railcar components and valves, tank heads, discharge outlets for hopper railcars, manway covers and valve body castings, outlet components and running boards for industrial and railroad customers, and hitches for the intermodal market; and aluminum and special alloy steel castings for the trucking, construction, mining, and oil and gas exploration markets, as well as finished machined aluminum castings and other custom machined products. The Railcar Services segment provides repair and refurbishment services that include light and heavy railcar repairs, exterior painting, interior lining application and cleaning, tank and safety valve testing, railcar inspections, wheel replacement, and conversion or reassignment of railcars; and fleet management services comprising maintenance planning, engineering services, field engineering services, regulatory compliance, mileage audit, rolling stock taxes, and online service access. The company serves leasing, railroad, industrial, and other non-rail companies. It sells its products directly, as well as through catalogs and the Internet. American Railcar Industries was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in St. Charles, Missouri. As of January 15, 2010, American Railcar Industries operates as subsidiary of Icahn Enterprises, L.P.

Try as you might, you can't escape the fact that ClubLink Enterprises, formerly Tri-White Corporation, is trying its hand in several business areas. Its core business is ownership of the Skagway, Alaska-based White Pass & Yukon Route Railway, which serves cruise-ship tourists through its dock management operations. Tri-White also owns about 70% of Canada-based golf resort operator ClubLink. CEO Rai Sahi controls some 70% of ClubLink Enterprises, which was formed to hold tourist and trucking operations of Russel Metals; the trucking interests were sold in 2000.

Kintetsu World Express (U.S.A.) is a unit of Japan-based Kintetsu World Express, which launched its US operations in 1969. Kintetsu World Express (U.S.A.) helps move freight in and out of the US -- and the rest of the world. Kintetsu World Express (U.S.A.), Inc. specializes in international airfreight and ocean freight forwarding and customs brokerage services. (As a freight forwarder, Kintetsu World Express (U.S.A.) buys transportation capacity from carriers and resells it to customers.) Other services include consulting, inventory management, and warehousing and distribution as well as handling perishable or dangerous cargo. Kintetsu World Express (U.S.A.), Inc. operates from a network of about 35 offices in major trade gateways throughout the US.

Teekay Corporation provides crude oil and petroleum product transportation services in Bermuda and internationally. The company’s Shuttle Tanker and FSO includes shuttle tankers and FSO units for providing transportation and storage services to oil companies operating offshore oil field installations primarily in the North Sea and Brazil. Its FPSO segment includes FPSO units and other vessels used to provide transportation, production, processing, and storage services to oil companies operating offshore oil field installations. Teekay Corporation’s Liquefied Gas segment consists of LNG and LPG carriers. Its Conventional Tankers segment includes conventional crude oil and product tankers operating in the spot charter market, and consists of Aframax, Suezmax, and large and medium product tankers that are employed on long-term time-charters. The company has a fleet of 150 vessels. As of March 31, 2010, it had four shuttle tankers, one LPG carrier, four LNG carriers, and two multi-gas carriers under construction. Teekay Corporation was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Providence and Worcester Railroad Company operates as an interstate freight carrier with regional railroad operating in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York. Providence and Worcester Railroad company transports various commodities, including automobiles, construction aggregates, iron and steel products, chemicals, lumber, scrap metals, plastic resins, cement, coal, construction and demolition debris, and processed foods, as well as edible foodstuffs, such as corn syrup and vegetable oils. As of December 31, 2009, its rail freight system comprised approximately 516 miles of track. The company also services a double-stack intermodal terminal facility in New England in Worcester, Massachusetts. In addition, it engages in the sale of properties, granting of easements, and licensing and leasing of land and tracks. Providence and Worcester Railroad company was founded in 1969 and is based in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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.

Central Japan Railway sends bullets flying all over Japan. Bullet train operator Central Japan Railway, known as JR Central, provides passenger transportation over a network of about 1,970 km (1,221 miles) of track. The company's shinkansen (high-speed) line connects the metropolitan areas of Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka; 12 conventional lines provide connections to surrounding areas. JR Central also earns revenue from retail and food sales as well as real estate development operations built near its train stations. JR Central was one of seven companies formed in the privatization of the former Japanese National Railways.

Truckload carrier Midwest Parts & Equipment, which does business as Midwest Systems, provides a range of freight transportation services. As a truckload carrier, the company specializes in doing its part for intermodal transportation, in which its trucks haul containers that may also move by train, ship, or both on their journey from origin to destination. The company provides service to all states but concentrates on Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, and Tennessee. Midwest Systems also leases containers and trailers and provides maintenance services. Founded in 1943 by Earl M. Winkle, the company is owned by company officers Justin Williamson and Thomas Lynch.

Kirby Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides marine transportation and diesel engine services to the marine and power generation markets in the United States. Kirby Corporation operates in two segments, Marine Transportation and Diesel Engine Services. The Marine Transportation segment engages in the inland transportation of petrochemicals, black oil products, refined petroleum products, and agricultural chemicals by tank barges; and offshore transportation of dry-bulk cargoes by barges, as well as offers transportation services for inland and offshore barge operators, oil service companies, offshore fishing companies, the USCG, and the United States Navy. As of February 27, 2009, this segment owned and operated 863 inland tank barges, 213 inland towboats, 4 offshore dry-cargo barges, 4 offshore tugboats, and an offshore shifting tugboat, as well as a bulk liquid terminal. The Diesel Engine Services segment involves in the overhaul and repair of medium-speed and high-speed diesel engines and reduction gears, and related parts sales in the marine market. This segment also provides aftermarket services for vessels powered by diesel engines utilized in various inland and offshore marine industries; aftermarket services for diesel engines that provide standby, peak, and base load power generation to the users of industrial reduction gears, as well as for standby generation components of the nuclear industry in the power generation market; and aftermarket services and parts for shortline, industrial, and Class II and transit railroads in the railroad market. Kirby Corporation was formerly known as Kirby Exploration Company, Inc. and changed its name to Kirby Corporation in 1990 because of the changing emphasis of its business. Kirby Corporation was founded in 1969 and is based in Houston, Texas.

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