Alaska Air Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, Alaska Airlines, Inc. and Horizon Air Industries, Inc., operates as an airline company serving destinations in the western United States, Canada, and Mexico. Alaska Air Group, Inc. provides passenger air services; and freight and mail services primarily to and within the state of Alaska and on the West Coast. As of December 31, 2009, it operated a fleet of 110 jet aircraft; and Horizon Air Industries operated a fleet of 18 jets and 40 turboprop aircraft. Alaska Air Group, Inc. was founded in 1932 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Will Wilh. Wilhelmsen (WW) be at the helm of the ship carrying your next vehicle? Through several subsidiaries, WW offers marine transportation via a fleet comprising mainly car carriers and ro-ro (roll on, roll off) vessels. The company owns a minority stake in EUKOR, which operates 85 car carriers that primarily move Hyundai and Kia autos from Korea. EUKOR also serves automakers such as BMW, Ford, General Motors, Mazda, Suzuki, Volkswagen, and Volvo. Annually it transports about 3 million autos to 160 ports in 110 countries. Along with freight transportation, WW provides logistics and supply chain management services through its Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics subsidiary, which it plans to take public.

Navajo Express is a leader in long-haul and dedicated transportation. With a network of 1,000 trucks, and 800 Navajo Logistics alliance carriers, the company is able to provide the refrigerated and dry goods industries with unparalleled customer service. The company's team of experienced professionals is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to assist with equipment capacity and visibility of shipments. Customer service and on-time performance are hallmark at Navajo Express for all of the company's service-sensitive transportation partners.

Watkins Associated Industries does business over the road, on the ground, and by the sea. Its trucking businesses include Highway Transport (liquid bulk cargo, such as chemicals and petroleum), Land Span (general cargo), Sunco Carriers (refrigerated cargo), and Watson Truckload Services (regional general cargo). Other units engage in real estate development (apartment complexes and shopping centers), door and window manufacturing (Tucker Door and Trim Corp.), property and casualty insurance, and seafood processing (Tampa Maid Foods). Bill Watkins founded the family-owned company in 1932 with a $300 pickup truck.

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.

Nordic American Tanker Shipping Ltd. ("NAT") was incorporated in Bermuda in 1995. In September 1995 NAT sold securities to the public in the US and in Europe. The shares are today trading at the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE"). The proceeds from the first offering (and subsequent exercise of warrants) were used to acquire 3 new suezmax double hull crude oil tankers (151,000 dwt) built at Samsung Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. to very high specifications. The three vessels ("Nordic Hawk", "Nordic Hunter" and "Gulf Scandic") were all delivered during the autumn of 1997 and commenced a seven-year bareboat charters to British Petroleum ("BP") immediately after delivery. The charter was based on the spot market rates at all times; with a minimum guaranteed rate. NAT's bye-laws restricted the company from acquiring additional vessels or concluding other business during the charter to BP. As the charters were close to expiry, an Extraordinary General Meeting was called for in March 2004 to decide if NAT should be wound up, or continue as an active operating company in October 2004. An overwhelming majority of the shareholders voted to continue, and in October 2004 the charter to BP expired, the restricting bye-laws were effectively changed and NAT became an active operating company.

Half a load is better than none for Vitran: the company nets most of its sales from its less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation business. (LTL carriers combine freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) Vitran -- the name is short for vital transportation -- provides LTL service in Canada and in much of the US. Besides its LTL operations, Vitran offers logistics services in the US and Canada and provides truckload freight transportation in the US. Overall, the company operates a fleet of more than 5,600 tractors, trailers, containers, and other equipment from a network of more than 135 facilities, most of which are located in the US.

Watco Companies, Inc. was founded in 1983 by Dick Webb, and is led by his son, Rick. Watco's world of railcar services is a wide one. Watco Companies operates 20 short-line railroads, primarily in the midwestern and southern US but also in the Pacific Northwest and in Appalachia. In addition, Watco offers industrial contract switching services, in which the company operates some two dozen railcar switching facilities located on the sites of manufacturers and other companies that ship freight by rail. Watco also leases and repairs railcars, locomotives, and other equipment; provides warehousing and distribution services, including temperature-controlled storage; and offers transloading of cargo between trucks and trains.

A regional less-than-truckload (LTL) freight carrier, Pitt Ohio Express operates a fleet of more than 650 tractors and 1,700 trailers. (LTL carriers consolidate freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) Pitt Ohio also has about 400 straight trucks and vans in its fleet. The company operates from a network of about 20 terminals, primarily in the mid-West and mid-Atlantic US. Besides LTL freight hauling and logistics services, the company provides truckload transportation through ECM Transport. The family of company president Charles Hammel III owns Pitt Ohio, which has grown from a business established by Hammel's grandfather in 1919.

Ultrapetrol (Bahamas) Limited, an industrial shipping company, provides marine transportation services primarily in South America, Europe, and Asia. Its shipping operations encompass grain, forest products, minerals, crude oil, petroleum, and refined petroleum products transportation for the shipping and offshore oil platform supply markets. The company operates in three segments: River, Offshore Supply, and Ocean. The River segment owns and operates river barges and pushboats that transport dry bulk and liquid cargos through the Hidrovia Region of South America. As of December 31, 2009, this segment had 591 barges and 30 pushboats with approximately 1,005,000 deadweight (dwt) capacity. The Offshore Supply segment owns and operates vessels that provide critical logistical and transportation services for offshore petroleum exploration and production companies in the North Sea and the coastal waters of Brazil. This segment’s fleet consisted of six platform supply vessels (PSVs) in operation and six PSVs under construction. The Ocean segment operated nine ocean-going vessels, including five product tankers, two Capesize vessels, one Oceangoing Pushboat, and one inland tank barge with an aggregate carrying capacity of approximately 445,606 dwt tons. Ultrapetrol (Bahamas) Limited company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Nassau, the Bahamas.

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