Lynden will haul your freight by truck, barge, or airplane. Through its more than 15 subsidiaries, Lynden also provides airfreight and ocean freight forwarding and logistics. It moves freight via truck mainly in Alaska, Canada, and the northwestern US; it offers service elsewhere in the US and internationally through arrangements with other carriers. Besides standard dry freight, Lynden's trucking units haul bulk chemicals, heavy equipment, and refrigerated cargo. Lynden's offers barge service between Seattle and southeastern Alaska and airfreight service within Alaska. The company traces its roots to 1907 and is owned by CEO Jim Jansen's family.

DistTech goes the distance. The transportation company specializes in carrying liquid bulk commodities, including food-grade products, throughout the US, Mexico, and Canada. In addition to acting as a common carrier, the company provides dedicated contract carriage, in which drivers and equipment are assigned to customers long-term. DistTech also offers logistics services, returnable container management, and tank washing. It operates from 30 facilities across the US. Formerly known as Manfredi Motor Transit, the company was founded by father and son John and Frank Manfredi in 1932.

Polskie Koleje Panstwowe (PKP) keeps chugging along in Poland. One of the largest railways in Europe, it operates passenger rail services, such as PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe, PKP Intercity and PKP Regional, as well as freight transport (PKP Cargo). Polskie Koleje Panstwowe S.A. also manages some 2,500 train stations in Poland. PKP has various other entities involved in real estate, tourism, energy, telecommunications, and IT services. PKP was formed in 2001, when the state-owned Polish Railway Lines was restructured due to new European Union guidelines.

Hawaiian Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiary, Hawaiian Airlines, Inc., engages primarily in the scheduled air transportation of passengers and cargo in the United States. It offers daily service on transpacific routes between Hawaii and Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, and San Jose, California; Las Vegas, Nevada; Phoenix, Arizona; Portland, Oregon; and Seattle, Washington, as well as daily service on its inter island routes among the Hawaiian Islands. In addition, the company provides scheduled services on its South Pacific/Australia/Asia routes between Hawaii and Pago Pago, American Samoa; Papeete, Tahiti; Sydney, Australia; and Manila, the Philippines, as well as offers other ad hoc charters. As of December 31, 2009, its fleet consisted of 15 Boeing 717-200 aircraft for its inter island routes; and a fleet of 14 Boeing 767-300 aircraft for its transpacific, South Pacific/Australia/Asia, and charter routes. Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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.

Bruce Oakley provides road and river (barge) transportation of dry bulk commodities, as well as grain storage and bulk fertilizer sales. The company's trucking division, which uses both end-dump and pneumatic tank trailers, serves the continental US, Canada, and Mexico. Overall Bruce Oakley operates some 450 trailers. It maintains about half a dozen ports in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Missouri on the Arkansas, Mississippi, and Red rivers, and the company's river barge transportation unit operates on those and other inland and intracoastal waterways. Grain storage services are available in five ports in Arkansas. Bruce Oakley was founded in 1968.

Grand Power Logistics knows what it takes to move freight across Asia. The company, operating through subsidiary Grand Power Express International (GP Express), provides airfreight and ocean freight forwarding, customs brokerage, warehousing, and other distribution services. As a freight forwarder, the company buys transportation capacity from carriers and resells it to customers. The company provides airfreight services, which account for about 95% of sales, through its traditional co-loading agreements (where cargo from two shippers are combined in a single load) as well as through direct sales. GP Express operates through more than 10 offices and about 100 agents worldwide.

ClearFreight, Inc. was founded as an import services and US Customs brokerage specialist in San Francisco in 1973. International logistics service provider ClearFreight clears the way for world trade. The company offers freight forwarding, global shipping, and documentation services. It also tracks US Customs and other agency regulations and processes and monitors fund transactions. ClearFreight, Inc. is a subsidiary of Japan's Sankyo Transportation Co., a freight forwarding, warehousing, and logistic business. ClearFreight operates from about 10 US offices and owns international locations in the Netherlands and Japan.

Clarke has Canada covered coast-to-coast. Through Clarke Transport and Clarke Road Transport, the firm provides truckload and less-than-truckload (LTL) freight transportation. (LTL carriers consolidate loads from multiple shippers into a single trailer.) Clarke hauls a variety of goods, including building materials, beverages, metals, pharmaceuticals, and retail products. Its CIS Shipping International runs a time charter vessel transporting goods between Florida and Grand Cayman. Founded in 1921, Clarke operates primarily in Canada, but also in Mexico and the US.

Euroseas Ltd., together with and subsidiaries, provides ocean-going transportation services worldwide. Euroseas Ltd. company owns and operates dry bulk carriers that transport bulks, such as iron ore, coal, and grains, as well as minor bulks, which include bauxite, phosphate, and fertilizers. It also owns and operates containerships and multipurpose vessels that transport dry and refrigerated containerized cargoes, including manufactured products and perishables. As of May 15, 2010, the company’s fleet consisted of five drybulk carriers, comprised of four Panamax and one Handymax drybulk carriers; nine containerships; and one multipurpose vessel. Its drybulk carriers had a total cargo carrying capacity of 331,308 deadweight tons (dwt); and containerships had a total cargo carrying capacity of 243,994 dwt and 15,779 twenty-foot equivalent units (teu), as well as multipurpose vessel could carry 22,568 dwt and/or 950 teu. Euroseas Ltd. company was founded in 2005 and is based in Maroussi, Greece.

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