Sunset Pacific Transportation (formerly Charles L. King & Associates) provides a wide range of freight-hauling services. The company offers truckload and less-than-truckload (LTL) services from terminals in California and South Carolina. (LTL carriers consolidate freight from multiple shippers into a single trailer.) Sunset Pacific Transportation carries freight such as manufactured goods, market fixtures, paper products, and textiles. The company also offers logistics, through subsidiary Sunset Pacific Logistics, and warehousing and distribution services.

Panalpina World Transport opened its first UK office in 1921. No mere mountainclimber, Panalpina covers the world. A unit of Switzerland-based Panalpina World Transport (Holding), Panalpina World Transport provides freight forwarding and supply chain management services for customers in the UK. Panalpina World Transport Ltd. offers both airfreight and ocean freight forwarding. It specializes in service to companies in the energy industry, and it also draws customers from sectors such as automotive, electronics and telecommunications, retail, and health care.

Omega Navigation Enterprises Inc. provides marine transportation services through the ownership and operation of double hull product tankers worldwide. Its product tankers transport refined petroleum products, including gasoline, jet fuel, kerosene, naphtha, gas oil, and heating oil. The company’s fleet includes 12 hull product tankers with a carrying capacity of approximately 680,000 dwt, of which 2 double hull product/chemical tankers with a capacity of 47,000 dwt and 2 double hull product/chemical tankers with a capacity of 37,000 dwt are owned through equal partnership joint ventures with a subsidiary of Glencore International, A.G. Omega Navigation Enterprises Inc. was founded in 2005 and is based in Athens, Greece.

Providence and Worcester Railroad Company operates as an interstate freight carrier with regional railroad operating in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York. Providence and Worcester Railroad company transports various commodities, including automobiles, construction aggregates, iron and steel products, chemicals, lumber, scrap metals, plastic resins, cement, coal, construction and demolition debris, and processed foods, as well as edible foodstuffs, such as corn syrup and vegetable oils. As of December 31, 2009, its rail freight system comprised approximately 516 miles of track. The company also services a double-stack intermodal terminal facility in New England in Worcester, Massachusetts. In addition, it engages in the sale of properties, granting of easements, and licensing and leasing of land and tracks. Providence and Worcester Railroad company was founded in 1969 and is based in Worcester, Massachusetts.

A&R Logistics offers a diverse menu of transportation and logistics services, mainly for companies in the plastics and chemicals industries. Trucker A&R Transport hauls dry and liquid bulk commodities from about 25 terminals throughout the US; its fleet includes about 950 tractors and 3,000 trailers. A&R Global Logistics (formerly Alliance Logistics) arranges freight transportation through a network of independent carriers, and A&R Packaging & Distribution operates warehouses and provides freight handling services. UTC Overseas arranges international shipments. Investment firm FdG Associates owns a controlling stake in A&R Logistics.

Boyd Bros. Transportation Inc. company transports steel products and building materials, mainly in the eastern two-thirds of the US, on flatbed trailers. Boyd Bros. operates through two trucking units: Boyd and WTI Transport, which provides regional service in the southeastern US. Overall, the company maintains a fleet of some 1,050 tractors and 1,670 trailers. Boyd Bros. also offers freight brokerage services. The company was founded in 1956 by Dempsey Boyd, the father of CEO Gail Cooper. Boyd Bros. was taken private in 2004 and is owned by members of the Boyd family.

Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited, together with its subsidiaries, provides seaborne crude oil, petroleum products, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) transportation services internationally. Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited company offers marine transportation services for national and independent oil companies and refiners under long, medium, and short-term charters. As of March 31, 2010, it operated a fleet of 46 double-hull tankers, including 3 VLCC tankers, 9 suezmax tankers, 12 aframax tankers, 7 panamax tankers, 6 handymax tankers, 8 handysize tankers, and 1 LNG carrier. Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited company was formerly known as MIF Limited and changed its name to Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited in July 2001. Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited was founded in 1993 and is based in Athens, Greece.

Pass it on -- Kuehne + Nagel International is one of the world's top freight forwarding and logistics groups. Kuehne + Nagel (pronounced "KOO-nuh and NAH-gel") provides sea freight and airfreight forwarding, arranges the transportation of goods by road and rail, and offers customs brokerage services. The company's contract logistics unit offers warehousing and distribution services, and it manages more than 7 million sq. meters of warehouse space. Overall, Kuehne + Nagel operates from about 900 locations in more than 100 countries worldwide. Executive chairman Klaus-Michael Kuehne, grandson of the company's co-founder, owns a controlling stake in Kuehne + Nagel.

Truckload carrier Midwest Parts & Equipment, which does business as Midwest Systems, provides a range of freight transportation services. As a truckload carrier, the company specializes in doing its part for intermodal transportation, in which its trucks haul containers that may also move by train, ship, or both on their journey from origin to destination. The company provides service to all states but concentrates on Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, and Tennessee. Midwest Systems also leases containers and trailers and provides maintenance services. Founded in 1943 by Earl M. Winkle, the company is owned by company officers Justin Williamson and Thomas Lynch.

Teekay Corporation provides crude oil and petroleum product transportation services in Bermuda and internationally. The company’s Shuttle Tanker and FSO includes shuttle tankers and FSO units for providing transportation and storage services to oil companies operating offshore oil field installations primarily in the North Sea and Brazil. Its FPSO segment includes FPSO units and other vessels used to provide transportation, production, processing, and storage services to oil companies operating offshore oil field installations. Teekay Corporation’s Liquefied Gas segment consists of LNG and LPG carriers. Its Conventional Tankers segment includes conventional crude oil and product tankers operating in the spot charter market, and consists of Aframax, Suezmax, and large and medium product tankers that are employed on long-term time-charters. The company has a fleet of 150 vessels. As of March 31, 2010, it had four shuttle tankers, one LPG carrier, four LNG carriers, and two multi-gas carriers under construction. Teekay Corporation was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

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