Celadon Group provides long-haul, dry van truckload service throughout North America via subsidiaries Celadon Trucking Services, Celadon Canada, and Mexico-based Jaguar. The group maintains a fleet of about 3,200 tractors and 10,000 trailers. Celadon also offers dedicated contract carriage, in which drivers and equipment are assigned to a customer long-term, as well as freight brokerage and warehousing services. Its clients have included large shippers with strict time-delivery requirements, such as Alcoa, Procter & Gamble, Philip Morris, and Wal-Mart. An e-commerce unit, TruckersB2B, serves as a purchasing cooperative for smaller trucking fleets and provides discounts on fuel, tires, and satellite systems.

Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) is up there in the pantheon of the world's largest container shipping and logistics companies. Through its APL subsidiary, NOL provides container transportation on the world's major ocean trade routes with a fleet of about 140 vessels. Container shipping services account for about 80% of the company's sales. Its APL Logistics unit provides supply chain management services, primarily in the Americas but also in the Asia/Pacific region and Europe. A third business, APL Terminals, operates container terminals in the Americas and the Asia/Pacific region. Through various entities, the government of Singapore controls about two-thirds of NOL.

CEO Mark Tuchmann founded BeavEx Incorporated company in 1989. When it comes to courier services, leave it to BeavEx. BeavEx Incorporated company's slate of offerings includes scheduled same-day delivery, management of customers' interoffice mail systems, and logistics consulting. Some 3,000 independent contractor couriers perform the actual deliveries for BeavEx; what the company brings to the table is its expertise in transportation network management. Banks and health care companies are among BeavEx's major customers. BeavEx Incorporated operates in nearly 40 states, primarily in the eastern US; it also maintains facilities in southwestern and western states.

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.

China Merchants was founded in 1872, when China witnessed the Westernization Movement of the late Qing Dynasty. Being the forerunner of China's national industry and commerce, China Merchants has played an important role in the modernization of China. Owing to the great efforts of several generations, China Merchants has now grown into a diversified conglomerate with great strength. She boasts of well-developed business network and market expertise in several business sectors covering transportation infrastructure (ports & toll roads), finance (banking, insurance, funds & securities), real estate and related community services, energy shipping & logistics. China Merchants' total assets value amounts to over HK$114 billion and the total assets value under her management amounts to nearly HK$1021 billion. With her headquarters based in Hong Kong and her business operations in emerging markets with dynamics and great potential including Hong Kong, mainland China and Southeast Asia, China Merchants ranks among the "four major mainland-funded companies" based in Hong Kong and has exerted great influence in the international industrial and commercial community.

Greyhound PackageXpress (GPX) piggybacks on the intercity bus services of parent Greyhound Lines to deliver packages throughout the US. Though GPX uses the buses to transport items, it works with independent couriers to get packages from bus terminals to recipients' doors. Customers include companies from industries such as food, environmental and medical, printing, and technology. Affiliates On Time Delivery and Larson Express serve the Minneapolis/St. Paul and Chicago metropolitan areas, respectively. GPX also contracts with Mexican courier Estafeta to ship parcels from US locations to more than 2,500 postal codes all over Mexico.

Rail Cargo Austria is a unit of Austria's state-owned railway system, Oesterreichische Bundesbahnen (OBB). Freight railway operator Rail Cargo Austria transports approximately 100 million tons per year of agricultural and automotive products, building materials, chemicals, consumer goods, paper, pharmaceutical, steel, and other goods throughout the nation, as well as to neighboring countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Along with its primary freight transportation operations, the company provides a wide range of logistics services, including freight forwarding, warehousing, and intermodal services, which involve the transportation of cargo by multiple methods, such as train, truck, and ship.

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.

In July of 1988, Mach 1 Global Services was incorporated as a domestic and international freight forwarder headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. The mission of the company from its early beginning was to provide an unparalleled customer experience and complete customer satisfaction on every shipment. As revenue and shipments began to increase, it became clear our customers responded favorably to this highly personalized approach. The result was the development of a strategic plan to increase Mach 1's presence in other key markets both domestically and internationally. The expansion plan was launched in 1991 with the opening of Mach 1's second office in El Paso, Texas. All Mach 1 offices are ISO 9001:2008 certified and are staffed with Mach 1 trained and bilingual employees.

Kintetsu World Express and its affiliates operate from more than 280 offices in about 185 cities in 30 countries around the world. The company was spun off from Kintetsu Corp., the operator of Kinki Nippon Railway, in 1970. Kintetsu still owns about 41% of the company. Kintetsu World Express specializes in international airfreight forwarding. The company also offers ocean freight forwarding and arranges ground transportation of its customers' goods. Key subsidiaries include Kintetsu World Express Sales, which handles the transportation and installment of exhibition or event shipments, and Kintetsu World Express Shikoku, which focuses on freight shipment within the Shikoku region of Japan.

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