Maverick USA's freight-hauling herd roams throughout the US. Subsidiary Maverick Transportation uses its fleet of tractors and flatbed trailers to transport steel and building materials; it also operates trailers designed to carry glass. The company offers long-haul service throughout the US and regional service in the Midwest and Southwest. Overall, it maintains a fleet of more than 1,400 tractors and 1,900 trailers. Maverick USA also offers freight brokerage services, through its Maverick Logistics unit. A third business, Maverick Truck & Trailer Sales, sells the company's used equipment. Maverick USA CEO Steve Williams founded the company with a partner in 1980; he took full ownership in 1983.

Watkins & Shepard Trucking offers less-than-truckload (LTL) and truckload freight hauling throughout the US from about 20 terminals, mainly west of the Rockies. (LTL carriers consolidate cargo from multiple shippers into a single trailer.) The company's fleet consists of about 630 tractors and 1,600 trailers. Standard dry vans account for the majority of the company's trailers; Watkins & Shepard also uses flatbed trailers. In addition, the company arranges intermodal transportation, which involves hauling freight by multiple methods, such as road and rail. CEO Ray Kuntz and president Steve Williamson own Watkins & Shepard, which was founded in 1974 as Stan Watkins Trucking.

Crosby Trucking Service hauls truckload containers of general commodities, primarily along the east coast and between the coast and Ohio, Indiana, and the city of Chicago. The company operates from terminals in Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Virginia. It maintains a fleet of about 130 tractors and more than 600 trailers. In addition to freight transportation, Crosby Trucking subsidiaries Crosby Leasing, Crosby Brokerage, and Crosco provide truck leasing and freight brokerage services and manage the company's real estate holdings, respectively. Crosby Trucking Service was founded in 1947 to haul milk to a local creamery.

Jacques Saade founded CMA CGM S.A. company in 1978. CMA CGM ships freight PDQ. The marine transportation company is one of the world's leading container carriers. Through subsidiaries it operates a fleet of about 370 vessels that serve more than 400 ports around the globe, and it maintains a network of about 650 facilities in about 150 countries. In addition to hauling containers by sea, CMA CGM provides logistics services, arranging the transportation of containerized freight by river, road, and rail. The company's tourism division arranges cruises and other travel services.

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.

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, known as SEPTA, provides passenger transportation services in the Philadelphia area. The agency's operations include buses, subways and elevated trains, trackless trolleys, and light rail and commuter rail lines. All together, SEPTA maintains more than 300 stations and bus terminals, chiefly in five Pennsylvania counties (Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia) and in the neighboring states of Delaware and New Jersey. Its territory spans some 2,200 sq. mi. The Pennsylvania legislature established SEPTA in 1964, and over the years the agency has acquired the assets of several for-profit transportation companies that operated in the region.

DF Young was founded in 1903. Daniel F. Young provides air and ocean freight forwarding, customs brokerage, and logistics services to multinational businesses. The company, known as DF Young, also offers ground transportation, including full-truckload (FTL) and less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation, door to door service, and inter-coastal barge transportation. (Freight forwarding companies purchase transportation capacity from carriers and resell it to customers; LTL carriers consolidate freight from multiple shippers into a single trailer.) It operates in five main industry areas: automotive, commercial goods, humanitarian cargo, foreign military sales, and petrochemical. Subsidiary Young Air Cargo Corporation arranges chartered transportation for high security or expedited cargoes.

As the postal service for the low-lying Netherlands, Royal TNT Post doesn't mind getting its feet wet to deliver the mail. The company, a subsidiary of global posting services giant TNT, collects, sorts, and delivers direct mail, letters, and packages; it handles some 5 billion items annually. Other TNT units provide business mail services in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Slovakia, and the UK. Royal TNT Post also participates in Spring, a global mail services joint venture with Singapore Post and the UK's Royal Mail. In addition, its Cendris unit offers database marketing and document management services.

The Washington Companies are a group of individual companies in which Montana businessman Dennis R. Washington owns or controls a majority position. Each company displays a unique entrepreneurial spirit that is individually cultured and managed by professional management teams, and guided by separate boards of directors. All of the companies are privately held and collectively generate annual revenues approaching $2 Billion US. The Washington Companies are headquartered throughout the United States and western Canada and conduct business internationally.The Washington Companies' core endeavors are: rail transportation, marine transportation, environmental remediation, restoration and construction, mining, heavy equipment sales and service, aviation technology, and real estate development. Together, The Washington Companies share a commitment to ethical conduct, a commitment to excellence and a strong sense of corporate citizenship. Their affiliation gives them the ability to interconnect and combine resources and remain highly competitive. The individual success of each Company also empowers a strong sense of social responsibility, realized through corporate charitable activities and programs funded by the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation.

Premuda is a shipping group listed on the Stock Exchange, its business being the transport of liquid and dry goods in bulk - employing its own ships as well as those of third parties. The first Italian shipping company to be listed on the Stock Exchange, it boasts an important Fleet of a high technical level composed of tankers, dry bulkers and FPSO. Premuda is today one of the main operators in maritime transport and in the chartering of ships for liquid and dry goods in bulk. Premuda has been on the market since 1907 updating its operating procedures using ships endowed with the most advanced technology. The Group functions with the utmost respect for international regulations regarding safety and protection of the environment. Given the attention now universally focused on the problems concerning safety in sea transport, the value of the Group Fleet has increased. The on-going updating (set in motion by the Erika case) of IMO regulations so as to exclude shipping traffic of single hull tonnage is a strong positive element for the Group, since it implies pursuant remarkable optimism on chartering market trends and on the value of the fleet for the next few years.

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