Tube Lines Ltd.'s business has gone down the tube -- just where it is supposed to be. Through its 30-year contract with London Underground, the company maintains and improves London's larger underground rail lines (Jubilee, Northern, and Piccadilly). In addition to maintenance operations, the company provides distribution, emergency services, and training programs to London Underground; it has also upgraded about 100 of its rail stations. Transport for London, the government agency that runs the London Underground, bought the Tube Lines shares owned by construction and rail specialists Amey and Bechtel in 2010 for about £400 million (about $580 million), returning Tube Lines to public ownership.

Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. operates as a seaborne shipping and logistics company. The company focuses on the transport and transshipment of drybulk commodities, including iron ore, coal, grain, and fertilizer. As of December 31, 2009, its fleet consisted of 60 vessels, aggregating approximately 6.6 million dwt. It owned 15 Capesize vessels, 13 modern Ultra Handymax vessels, 4 Panamax vessels, and 1 Product Handysize tanker vessel; and operated a fleet of 5 Ultra Handymax, 2 Handysize, 10 Panamax, and 10 Capesize vessels under time charter. In addition, Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. owns and operates vessels, barges, and push boats located in Argentina; bulk transfer and storage port facility in Uruguay; and an upriver liquid port facility located in Paraguay. The company has an in-house technical ship management expertise that works with producers of raw materials, agricultural traders and exporters, industrial end-users, ship owners, and charterers. It operates in the North America, Europe, Asia, and the South America. Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. is headquartered in Piraeus, Greece.

If you think that's the Great Pumpkin behind you on the highway, look again. With its signature bright-orange fleet of about 12,000 tractors and 33,000 trailers, Schneider National is one of the largest truckload carriers in the US. Its Schneider National Carriers unit provides truckload service throughout North America, including one-way van, dedicated, expedited, regional, and bulk freight transportation. The company also offers intermodal service, in which it arranges the transportation of freight by multiple methods, such as road and rail. Additionally, it offers brokerage services, while subsidiary Schneider Logistics offers supply chain management services. The company was founded in 1935.

Wheaton Van Lines, which operates under the Wheaton World Wide Moving brand, provides interstate and international transportation and relocation services for individuals, businesses, and government agencies. Wheaton also provides relocation services for US military personnel. The company's specialties include transportation of medical equipment, computers, new furniture, store fixtures, and Steinway pianos. Wheaton Van Lines operates through a network of about 250 agents in the US. The company, which is owned by its employees, was founded by Earnest S. Wheaton in 1945.

Odfjell is a leading company in the global market for transportation and storage of bulk liquid chemicals, acids, edible oils and other special products. Originally set up in 1916, the Company pioneered the development of the parcel tanker trades in the middle/late 1950s and the tank storage business in the late 1960s. Odfjell owns and operates parcel tankers in global and regional trades as well as a network of tank terminals. Our strategy is to continue developing our position as a leading logistics service provider for customers worldwide. We aim at maintaining this position through efficient and safe operations of deep-sea and regional parcel tankers and tank terminals. Scale is needed to offer an efficient trading pattern in a global transportation context, thereby maximizing fleet utilization. Our size also allows us to obtain significant purchasing benefits.

R+L Carriers wants to add your freight to its trucks. The company provides freight transportation and logistics services throughout the US, primarily operating as a less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier. (LTL carriers combine freight from multiple carriers into a single truckload.) Its R+L Global segment arranges for international freight to be shipped by air and sea. R+L Carriers offers service in all 50 states, as well as in Canada, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. Overall it operates a fleet of some 13,000 tractors and trailers. CEO Ralph Larry Roberts founded the family-owned company in 1965, starting with a single truck that was used to haul furniture.

Alaska Tanker Company transports the oil from Alaska that pipelines won't. The company provides marine transportation of Alaskan crude oil produced by BP to refiners on the west coast of the US and in Hawaii. It operates a fleet of several double-hull tankers that has a capacity of 195,000 deadweight tons (DWT). Alaska Tanker is jointly owned by BP Oil Shipping Company, USA (a unit of BP Shipping); Keystone Alaska; and OSG Ship Management (part of OSG America). The companies formed Alaska Tanker Company in 1999 to bring BP's Alaska crude oil shipping operations under a single corporate umbrella.

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.

Wan Hai Lines (WHL) business is no pleasure cruise. Specializing in international container shipping, the company transports all manner of freight through an extensive network of routes covering major ports throughout Asia, India, Europe, and the Middle East. Founded in 1965, the company transported logs between Taiwan, Japan and Southeast Asia. Since then Wan Hai Lines has grown in size (it now has more than 60 vessels that are owned or chartered), scope (the company also serves clients in the United States, Turkey, Romania, Germany, East Africa, South America, and the Netherlands), and business services (it sells and leases containers, offers online procurement services, and offers cargo tracking services).

I.M. Skaugen SE traces its history to a shipping company founded in 1916 by Isak Martinius Skaugen, grandfather of CEO Morits Skaugen Jr. I.M. Skaugen provides marine transportation of petrochemical gases, liquefied natural gas (LNG) and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). It also offers lightering (ship-to-ship transfer of crude oil and LNG) through Houston-based SPT. Subsidiary Norgas Carriers transports LPG and petrochemical gases. The group is widening its presence in Asia with carriers to transport LPG and petrochemical gases and products in China. I.M. Skaugen operates a fleet of about 40 vessels, including petrochemical gas carriers, Aframax-sized tankers, LPG carriers, and gas barges.

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