Lone Star Transportation hauls freight throughout North America on flatbed trailers.Lone Star Transportation company specializes in transporting equipment for wind power generation facilities, along with other heavy and complex loads for customers in industries such as aerospace, construction, and oil and gas. It operates a fleet of about 870 tractors and 2,000 trailers. In addition to freight transportation, Lone Star provides a variety of logistics services, which include arranging the transportation of customers' freight by air, ocean, and rail carriers. Company president Tex Robbins owns Lone Star, which began operations in 1988.

Transportation and logistics is Werner Enterprises' game; hauling truckload shipments -- both interstate and intrastate -- is its fame. Among the five largest truckload carriers in the US, Werner operates about 7,250 tractors and 23,880 trailers. Its trailer fleet consists of dry vans and, to a lesser extent, temperature-controlled vans and flatbeds. Werner's truckload transportation offerings include dedicated contract carriage, in which drivers and equipment are assigned to a customer. It also offers freight brokerage, intermodal freight transportation arrangement, and other value-added logistic services, as well as freight forwarding. Retailers, consumer and grocery products companies represent 75% of sales.

NV Nederlandse Spoorwegen operates nearly 400 stations in the Netherlands. It has a contract agreement to run the Dutch main rail network until 2015. Nederlandse Spoorwegen (also known as Dutch Railways), the holding company for NS Group, moves more than a million people a day in the Netherlands. NS Group primarily operates passenger trains throughout the country (including a high speed train) but has expanded into the UK, through its subsidiary NedRailways, operating in Liverpool and northern England. It also transports passengers in Germany, Belgium, France, and the Czech Republic. NS Group's other segments include hub development (management of the train stations) and construction.

Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) is up there in the pantheon of the world's largest container shipping and logistics companies. Through its APL subsidiary, NOL provides container transportation on the world's major ocean trade routes with a fleet of about 140 vessels. Container shipping services account for about 80% of the company's sales. Its APL Logistics unit provides supply chain management services, primarily in the Americas but also in the Asia/Pacific region and Europe. A third business, APL Terminals, operates container terminals in the Americas and the Asia/Pacific region. Through various entities, the government of Singapore controls about two-thirds of NOL.

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.

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.

Jets, not bows, power this Arrow. Arrow Air, which does business as Arrow Cargo, flies freight between the US and points south. Operating a fleet of DC-8s and DC-10s from its hub in Miami, the company serves more than 20 cities in Central and South America and the Caribbean. Arrow Cargo's facilities include a 67,000 sq. ft. refrigerated warehouse and more than 155,000 sq. ft of dry cargo space. The company's customers, which consist primarily of freight forwarders, passenger and cargo airlines, and other transportation providers, also include the United States Postal Service and the US Department of Defense. Arrow filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in mid-2010.

One of Germany's largest family-owned enterprises, Dr. August Oetker is the holding company for the diversified Oetker Group, which has interests in shipping (Hamburg Sud), food (frozen pizza and baking mixes), beer and nonalcoholic beverages, and wine, sparkling wine, and spirits. The company's shipping division, its largest, has operations worldwide; Oetker Group's food and spirits businesses are concentrated in Europe. Other Oetker Group activities include banking and insurance, book publishing, chemical manufacturing, and luxury hotels. Not only are beer and pizza staples of many a college student's diet, they are also key elements of Dr. August Oetker's business portfolio.

Truckload carrier USA Truck moves freight not only in the US, but also in Canada, and, through partners, into Mexico. It does most of its business east of the Rocky Mountains. USA Truck has a fleet of about 2,300 tractors and 7,200 trailers. It transports general commodities; customers include companies in the consumer goods, industrial machinery and equipment, paper products, rubber and plastics, and retail industries. The company provides both medium-haul (800-1,200 mile) and regional (500-mile) truckload services, along with dedicated contract carriage, in which drivers and equipment are assigned to a customer long-term. The company's average length-of-haul is about 600-miles.

DRS was formed in 1996 following the privatization of the UK railroad in order to transport radioactive and hazardous materials for then parent British Nuclear Fuels Limited. Its current parent is the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. Direct Rail Services (DRS) has a track record in the UK rail freight business. Its freight operations primarily transport spent nuclear fuel from UK power stations to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority's Sellafield reprocessing plant. Direct Rail Services Limited also moves bulk chemicals and low-level nuclear waste as well as consumer goods and time sensitive material across the country.

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