Guangshen Railway Company Limited, together with its subsidiaries, primarily provides passenger and freight transportation services on the Shenzhen-Guangzhou-Pingshi railway in the People's Republic of China. Guangshen Railway company’s freight services include the transportation of full load and single load cargo, containers, bulky and overweight cargo, dangerous cargo, fresh and live cargo, and oversized cargo. It also offers long distance passenger transportation services. In addition, Guangshen Railway company engages in the sale of food, beverages, and merchandise on board the trains and in railway stations. Further, it engages in the operation of a travel agency, as well as provision of services relating to warehousing, hotel management, cargo loading and unloading, catering management and services, advertising, and freight transportation and package agency services. Additionally, the company provides property management services, as well as involves in the supervision of construction projects. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 218 pairs of passenger trains, including 100 pairs of inter-city high-speed passenger trains between Guangzhou and Shenzhen; 13 pairs of Hong Kong Through Trains; and 105 pairs of long-distance passenger trains. Guangshen Railway company was founded in 1996 and is based in Shenzhen, the People's Republic of China.

Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc., a bulk shipping company, engages primarily in the ocean transportation of crude oil and petroleum products. It owns and operates a fleet of oceangoing vessels and involves in the transportation of liquid and dry bulk cargoes. The company primarily serves independent and state-owned oil companies, oil traders, and government entities. As of December 31, 2009, it owned and operated a fleet of 106 vessels, aggregating 10.9 million deadweight tons and 864,800 cubic meters, of which 84 vessels operated in the international market and 22 operated in the United States Flag market. The company’s newbuilding program of owned and chartered-in vessels totaled 23 international and the U.S. Flag vessels. Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. was founded in 1948 and is based in New York, New York.

K-Sea Transportation Partners L.P. provides marine transportation, distribution, and logistics services for refined petroleum products in the United States. As of September 1, 2009, the company operated a fleet of 69 tank barges and 66 tugboats, which offer services to various customers, including oil companies, oil traders, and oil refiners. K-Sea General Partner L.P. serves as the general partner of the company. K-Sea Transportation Partners L.P. was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in East Brunswick, New Jersey.

Groendyke Transport hauls bulk cargo throughout North America. The company operates from a network of more than 30 terminals, primarily in the southwestern and midwestern US. Among the commodities moved by Groendyke Transport are chemicals, petroleum, and grain products. Customers have included ADM, BASF, Dow Chemical, Eastman Chemical, and Koch Industries. Founded by Harold Groendyke in 1932, Groendyke Transport is owned by the Groendyke family, including chairman and CEO John Groendyke, Harold's son.

The unit was established in 1982. COSCO Americas, Inc. (CAI) represents the interests of its parent, marine transportation giant China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company, known as COSCO, in North and South America. In addition to serving as a shipping agent, CAI provides services related to sales, fuel supply, and technical consulting, as well as inland transportation of freight -- in other words, whatever is necessary to facilitate the movement of containerized and bulk cargo by the parent company. Overall, CAI operates from about 80 offices in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, and the US.

State-owned China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company, known as COSCO Group, is one of the world's leading marine transportation companies. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, COSCO Group operates a fleet of about 800 containerships, bulk carriers and other vessels with an overall capacity of 50 million deadweight tons. In addition, the company is engaged in freight forwarding, logistics, real estate, ship building and repairing, container manufacturing, and terminal operations. It maintains facilities in more than 160 countries around the world. COSCO Group should not be confused with a rival state-owned marine transportation enterprise with a similar name, China Shipping (Group) Company.

PCL Group is a unit of Singapore's Kuok Group, a holding company with diverse interests in businesses ranging from agricultural commodities to office equipment. Not limited to the Pacific Ocean, Pacific Carriers Limited specializes in the worldwide transport of dry bulk cargo -- typically such commodities as coal, fertilizer, grain, and iron ore. Doing business as PCL Group, the company's fleet of more than 100 owned and managed vessels includes dry bulk carriers of various sizes, as well as chemical and product tankers, which transport liquid bulk cargo. Affiliates provide short-haul transportation of containerized freight and operate offshore supply vessels for oil companies doing business in Southeast Asia.

Norfolk Southern Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in the rail transportation of raw materials, intermediate products, and finished goods. Its operations consist of the transportation of coal, coke, and iron ore products; automotive products, such as finished vehicles and auto parts; chemicals consisting of sulfur and related chemicals, petroleum products, chlorine and bleaching compounds, plastics, rubber, industrial chemicals, chemical wastes, and municipal wastes; metals and construction products comprising steel, aluminum products, machinery, scrap metals, cement, aggregates, bricks, and minerals; agriculture and consumer products, including soybeans, wheat, corn, fertilizer, animal and poultry feed, food oils, flour, beverages, canned goods, sweeteners, consumer products, and ethanol; and paper, clay, and forest products, which include lumber and wood products, pulp board and paper products, wood fibers, wood pulp, scrap paper, and clay. The company’s intermodal traffic includes shipments moving in trailers, domestic and international containers, and roadrailer equipment.It handles these shipments on behalf of intermodal marketing companies, international steamship lines, truckers, and other shippers. The company also transports overseas freight through various Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports, as well as provides a range of logistics services. In addition, it operates and leases regularly scheduled passenger trains and commuter trains. Further, Norfolk Southern Corporation engages in the acquisition, leasing, and management of coal, oil, gas, and minerals; development of commercial real estate; telecommunications; and leasing or sale of rail property and equipment. As of December 31, 2009, it operates approximately 21,000 miles in 22 states and the District of Columbia. The company was founded in 1883 and is based in Norfolk, Virginia.

Finnlines, one of Europe's largest liner cargo shipping companies, concentrates its sea transport services in the Baltic and North Seas. It provides ro-ro (roll-on/roll-off) services on routes between Finland and Sweden; Sweden and Germany; and Germany and Russia. It also ferries passengers on ro-pax vessels on routes including Finland-Poland-Germany; Helsinki-Travemunde (Germany); and Lubeck (Germany)-St. Petersburg (Russia), as well as to and from Mediterranean, West African, and North and South American destinations. The group is engaged in port operations in Finland (Finnsteve). Its shipping units include TransRussia Express, FinnLink, and Nordo-Link. Finnlines is part of Italy-based Grimaldi Group.

Gulfstream International Group was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Gulfstream International Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates a scheduled airline; and a flight training academy for licensed commercial pilots, as well as provides scheduled and on-demand charter services. It provides flight training services for pilots holding commercial, multi-engine and instrument certifications; and offers frequent charter flights within its geographic operating region, including licensed flights to Cuba. The company operates approximately 147 scheduled flights per day, serving 9 destinations in Florida, 10 destinations in the Bahamas, and 5 destinations from continental airline’s Cleveland hub to cities in Pennsylvania, New York, and West Virginia under the department of transportation’s essential air service program. As of December 31, 2009, Gulfstream International Group operated a fleet of 23 Beechcraft ‘1900 Turboprop’ passenger aircraft. It operates under a principal code share and alliance agreement with Continental Airlines, as well as has code share agreements with United and Copa Airlines of Panama.

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