The IMC Group is a privately-held enterprise based in Asia. Its roots can be traced back to the early 1900s, when the founder’s family was engaged in the provision of transportation and banking services. In line with the rapid industrialisation of Asia, the IMC Group seeks to achieve world-class performance to meet the challenges facing its key areas of interests involving industries and financial sectors, lifestyle-oriented real estate investments, education and social development. Currently headquartered in Singapore, the IMC Group has more than 9,000 employees representing some 18 nationalities worldwide. It has a major presence in China, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia, as well as representative offices in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, India and the Philippines.In this rapidly-changing and integrating world, the philosophy behind IMC’s business approach is simple. Firm in the belief that businesses have the capability and responsibility to contribute to the community and society, IMC is set on achieving stable and sustainable development in the environment it operates in. By valuing long-term relationships with business partners and aspiring to be a dynamic organisation that is growing from a family business into a business family, IMC hopes to create a strategic alliance and a harmonious co-existence with all parties concerned for a better future together.

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.

NFT Distribution Holdings is a leading provider of logistics and transportation services that specializes in serving food manufacturers, suppliers, and retailers in the UK. It delivers a wide range of products including fresh fruit and produce, beverages, and other chilled food items. NFT Distribution serves such major grocery retailers as J Sainsbury and ASDA. In addition, the company offers logistics consulting and management services. NFT Distribution was started in 1979 as the distribution arm of Northern Foods and was spun off through a management buyout backed by Phoenix Equity Partners in 2006.

Torm A/S, a shipping company, together with its subsidiaries, provides product tanker and dry bulk carrier services worldwide. Its product tankers carry refined oil products, such as gasoline, jet fuel, naphtha, and diesel oil. Torm company’s dry bulk vessels carry iron ore and coal for utilities and the steel industry; and commodities, such as grain, bauxite, and fertilizers. It operates a fleet of 140 vessels principally through a pooling cooperation with other respected shipping companies. Aktieselskabet Dampskibsselskabet TORM was formerly known as Aktieselskabet Dampskibsselskabet Torm and changed its name to TORM A/S in April 2009. TORM A/S was founded in 1889 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Express-1 Expedited Solutions specializes in arranging expedited ground transportation. Customers' freight is transported throughout the US by independent contractors, who give the company's Express-1 unit access to a fleet of vehicles that includes cargo vans, trucks, and tractor-trailers. Express-1 Expedited offers domestic and international freight forwarding through Concert Group Logistics, as well as truckload freight brokerage services through Bounce Logistics. With operations centers in the Midwest and in Florida, Express-1 Expedited provides services to more than 2,000 customers across the US, Canada, and Mexico.

Alan Ritchey has interests in transportation, agriculture, and construction materials. The company's truckload transportation unit mainly moves mail for the United States Postal Service; in addition, it hauls commodities used by Alan Ritchey's agricultural businesses and general freight. It has a fleet of some 200 trucks and 1,800 trailers. Alan Ritchey also operates mail transport equipment service centers for the Postal Service. The company's Martindale Feed Mill division operates mills, a feed store, and a grain storage facility in Texas; Alan Ritchey also owns a dairy in Oklahoma and a sand mining business in Texas. Alan Ritchey and his family own the company, which he founded in 1963.

Before you can buy stuff at the store, the stuff has to get to the store, and that's where National Retail Systems comes in. The company provides less-than-truckload (LTL) freight transportation, along with logistics and warehousing and distribution services. (LTL carriers combine freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) It operates a fleet of about 1,100 trucks and about 4,300 trailers and maintains more than 1 million sq. ft. of warehouse space. To serve its retail clients, the company has both trailers and warehouses designed to handle garments on hangers. National Retail Systems was founded in 1953.

TBS International PLC, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the ocean transportation of dry cargo through owned and chartered vessels worldwide. The company offers liner, parcel, and bulk services supported by a fleet of multipurpose tweendeckers, and handysize and handymax bulk carriers. Its vessels fleet carries a range of cargo, including industrial goods, project cargo, steel products, metal concentrates, fertilizer, salt, sugar, grain, aggregates, and general cargo. TBS International PLC also provides additional services, such as strategic planning, cargo scheduling, loading, and discharge. In addition, the company offers an integrated shipping solution comprising total project coordination; and door-to-door supply chain management, including port services, terminal operations, trucking, barging, warehousing, distribution, inland pick-up and delivery, and documentation. TBS International PLC serves industrial shippers in various markets, which include mining, steel manufacturing, trading, heavy industry, industrial equipment, and construction. The company operates 49 controlled fleet vessels aggregating approximately 1.48 million dead weight tonnage. TBS International Limited company was formerly known as TBS International Limited and changed its name to TBS International PLC on January 8, 2010. TBS International PLC was founded in 1993 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.

G&P Trucking provides truckload freight hauling and related logistics services, mainly in the southeastern US.G&P Trucking company, which specializes in next-day and same-day service, operates a fleet of about 520 tractors and 1,500 trailers from about a dozen terminals in the Carolinas, Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee, and Texas. Some of its business comes from handling cargo coming into and out of ports such as Charlotte, North Carolina; Norfolk, Virginia; and Savannah, Georgia; it also arranges transportation to and from Mexico. G&P Trucking is owned by the Cassels family, which also controls less-than-truckload carrier Southeastern Freight Lines.

FastShip is developing a high-speed container vessel that would allow the company to transport freight across the Atlantic in less than four days. Finding money to build the ships has taken much longer, however. Once financing has been arranged, Spanish shipyard IZAR is to begin construction of the first three vessels. Loading systems and terminals have been designed for the FastShip system; plans call for the first two terminals to be in Philadelphia and Cherbourg, France. FastShip hopes eventually to serve other shipping lanes, as well.

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