Mitsui O.S.K. Lines if you send your freight over the ocean. Known as MOL, the company is one of the world's largest marine transportation companies and operates a fleet of about 900 vessels with an overall capacity of more than 64 million deadweight tons (DWT). The company's fleet includes containerships, bulk cargo carriers, car carriers, tankers, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers. MOL also operates cruise ships, tugboats, and domestic ferries. In addition, the company provides logistics services such as warehousing and freight forwarding, operates marine terminals, and holds stakes in finance and real estate businesses.

DB Schenker Rail UK was created in 1996 through a merger of several units of the former national monopoly, British Rail, which had been privatized. German rail transport and logistics giant Deutsche Bahn acquired the company in 2007 and integrated the company with its DB Schenker unit. DB Schenker Rail UK (formerly English Welsh & Scottish Railway) serves as the backbone of the UK's freight rail. Operating hundreds of trains daily, it hauls goods for businesses in the construction, energy, and manufacturing sectors. Besides offering coverage throughout its home country, the company provides service to continental Europe through the Channel Tunnel via a joint venture with French rail operator SNCF.

Alianca Navegacao e Logistica sails around the globe to deliver the goods. Alianca Navegacao e Logistica provides sea transportation services, maintaining a fleet of some 20 container ships and four tramp ships (ships without a fixed schedule). Alianca Navegacao e Logistica also offers logistical services and coordination of road and rail transport from port to final destination. Its coastal shipping service includes 13 Brazilian ports. The company, which serves markets in Latin America, as well as North America, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, and South Africa, caters to the automotive, chemicals, and food industries, among others. Alianca Navegacao e Logistica is a subsidiary of German marine transportation titan, Hamburg Sud.

Standard Forwarding specializes in less-than-truckload (LTL) freight transportation services. (LTL carriers consolidate freight from multiple shippers into a single trailer.) The company operates a fleet of about 300 tractors and 790 trailers from a network of more than a dozen terminals in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The company also offers freight transportation in Canada through partnerships. Farm equipment manufacturer Deere is a major customer, as it has been since Standard Forwarding was founded in 1934. As a result of experiencing higher-than-market operating costs in the midst of the recession, the company voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in November 2009.

Go-Ahead is one of the UK's leading providers of passenger transport services operating primarily in the bus and rail sectors. Through our companies we aim to provide efficient, integrated and sustainable local public transport systems. Employing around 22,000 people across the country, over one billion passenger journeys are undertaken on our bus and rail services each year. We believe that a strong and growing public transport network is key to the sustainable future of the UK. Bus and rail play a vital role in meeting environmental challenges such as reducing traffic congestion and carbon emissions. Transport is also fundamental to the economy as a means of connecting people and moving goods. In addition to the travelling public, our customers include the Department for Transport (DfT), Transport for London (TfL) and local authorities.

Kintetsu World Express (U.S.A.) is a unit of Japan-based Kintetsu World Express, which launched its US operations in 1969. Kintetsu World Express (U.S.A.) helps move freight in and out of the US -- and the rest of the world. Kintetsu World Express (U.S.A.), Inc. specializes in international airfreight and ocean freight forwarding and customs brokerage services. (As a freight forwarder, Kintetsu World Express (U.S.A.) buys transportation capacity from carriers and resells it to customers.) Other services include consulting, inventory management, and warehousing and distribution as well as handling perishable or dangerous cargo. Kintetsu World Express (U.S.A.), Inc. operates from a network of about 35 offices in major trade gateways throughout the US.

Osterreichische Bundesbahnen-Holding, or OBB-Holding, keeps railway traffic on track in Austria. The company's subsidiaries transport goods and passengers by train and bus, maintain the rail infrastructure, manage the rail network, develop real estate, and provide IT and personnel services to companies within the organization. OBB-Holding took its current form in 2005, when it was charged with providing strategic direction for the restructuring of the state-owned Osterreichische Bundesbahnen (Austrian Railway). OBB-Holding is owned by the Austrian government.

Marine transportation company Avin International maintains a fleet of about 20 crude-oil carriers and product tankers of various sizes. Overall, its vessels have a capacity of more than 1.2 million deadweight tons (DWT). Avin International does much of its business trading in the Mediterranean and Black Sea and between Europe and the US; customers include major petroleum companies. Greece's Vardinoyannis family owns a controlling stake in Avin International, which was founded in 1977. In addition to its headquarters in Greece, the company owns offices in Cairo, London, and New York City.

DHL Global Mail company is part of the mail business segment of its parent, German postal giant Deutsche Post. DHL Global Mail doesn't actually deliver the mail, but the company does work to speed its arrival. A provider of mail processing and distribution services for business customers, DHL Global Mail operates from more than 20 terminals throughout North America. The company takes mail from its customers that is bound for various destinations, sorts it, and gets it to the post office distribution facility closest to its destination. It also provides international distribution services to some 220 countries through affiliates; in total, DHL Global Mail's international network consists of about 50 processing facilities.

Through its operating companies, TransForce is one of Canada's largest providers of transportation and logistics services. Subsidiaries offer truckload transportation of general freight and specialized cargo, as well as less-than-truckload (LTL) tranportation through carrier TST Overland Express. (Less-than-truckload carriers consolidate loads from multiple shippers into a single trailer.) Other TransForce units include parcel delivery company Canpar, and logistics and warehousing services. In 2008 the company, which formerly traded as TransForce Income Fund, converted itself from an income fund to a corporation in order to invest more of its income in its business.

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