FirstFleet helps its customers move their freight -- not just by the truckload but by providing fleets of trucks.FirstFleet company offers dedicated contract carriage, in which it supplies its customers with tractors and trailers and the drivers to operate them. In addition, FirstFleet provides related fleet management, logistics, and maintenance services.FirstFleet company operates a fleet of about 1,450 trucks and tractors from facilities in some 30 states in the US, and it provides transportation services throughout the 48 contiguous states and in Canada and Mexico. FirstFleet began operations in 1986.

The US market is the one and only concern for US 1 Industries, which partners with its subsidiaries to provide truckload transportation services in the 48 contiguous states. The company doesn't have trucks of its own; instead, it does business through a network of independent sales agents, who arrange freight transportation via independent truck owner-operators. Approximately 160 commission-based agents operate facilities that monitor shipments. US 1's contractors provide transportation of freight in temperature-controlled trailers and flatbeds, as well as in standard dry vans. One of its specialties is the hauling of intermodal shipping containers, which can be transported by trucks, trains, and ships.

The Maersk Company Limited has its head office in London and offices in 20 locations across the UK and Ireland. The Maersk Company has over 5,000 staff operating on both land and sea. We are one of the largest shipowners in the UK, and own various vessel types ranging from product tankers and container vessels to some of the world’s most powerful offshore support vessels. As the UK and Ireland general agent for Maersk Line we handle around four million container movements each year. This along with the activities of Maersk Logistics UK and Ireland Limited enables us to provide a full range of container related services to our customers. Alongside shipping and containerised services, The Maersk Company Limited is also active in the oil and gas sectors. We are part of the global A.P. Moller - Maersk Group, which has more than 110,000 employees in more than 125 countries across the globe.

Precious Shipping hauls valuable, if not glamorous, cargo. The company hauls not diamonds or pearls but agricultural products, steel, ore, fertilizers, and other basic goods that keep the world's economies humming. Precious Shipping operates a fleet of about 50 ships navigating the shallow waters of Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and Latin America that hamper traffic from larger vessels. The company is among the largest of its kind in Thailand and moves goods primarily from Asia to ports throughout the world. The company's operations consist of ship owning, chartering, and management in addition to port development.

ABF Freight System knows the ABCs of freight transportation. The primary subsidiary of Arkansas Best, ABF Freight System specializes in national and regional long-haul, less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation of general commodities such as apparel, appliances, chemicals, food, furniture, plastics, rubber, and textiles. (LTL carriers combine freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) ABF Freight System operates from a network of about 280 terminals throughout the US and Canada and in Puerto Rico. It maintains a fleet of some 4,000 tractors and 17,000 trailers. The company, which traces its origins to 1923, offers service in Mexico through arrangements with Mexican carriers.

The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets railroad freight car equipment in the United States, Mexico, and Poland. It offers double-stack railcars; boxcars used in forest products, automotive, perishables, and general merchandise applications; covered hopper cars for grain and cement industries; gondolas and coil cars for the steel and metal markets; conventional railcars; center partition cars for the forest products industry; bulkhead flat cars; flat cars for automotive transportation; and solid waste service flat cars. The company also provides pressurized tank cars for liquid petroleum gas and ammonia; non pressurized tank cars for light oil and chemical products; coal cars; and sliding wall cars, as well as ocean-going barges, including conventional deck barges, double-hull tank barges, railcar/deck barges, barges for aggregates, and other heavy industrial products and ocean-going dump barges. In addition, it involves in the repair and refurbishment of railcars for third parties, as well as for its own leased and managed fleet; provision of wheel services, including reconditioning of wheels, axles, and roller bearings; and production of recondition railcar cushioning units, couplers, yokes, side frames, and bolsters, as well as roofs, doors, and associated parts for boxcars. Further, the company offers finance lease programs. Additionally, it provides management services that comprise railcar maintenance management; railcar accounting services, such as billing and revenue collection, and car hire receivable and payable administration; and fleet management, including railcar tracking, administration, and remarketing. The company also produces railcar castings through a joint venture. It owns approximately 9,000 railcars and provides management services to approximately 217,000 railcars for railroads, shippers, carriers, and other leasing and transportation companies. The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. was founded in 1974 and is based in Lake Oswego, Oregon.

Truckload carrier Millis Transfer, which operates mainly in the eastern half of the US, concentrates on the transport of beer, food, glass, and paper. The company maintains a fleet of some 700 tractors and 2,200 trailers. Millis Transfer began as an Old Style beer distributorship during Prohibition in 1936. CEO Bill Millis owns a majority stake in the company.

The largest subsidiary of FedEx (about 60% of sales), FedEx Express is responsible for its parent's namesake express delivery business, the world's largest. FedEx Express delivers about 3.5 million packages per day throughout the US and to some 220 countries and territories worldwide. Packages (from envelopes to boxes weighing up to 150 pounds) account for most of the company's sales; FedEx Express also delivers pallets of freight weighing from 151 pounds to 2,200 pounds. The company operates a fleet of about 665 aircraft and about 41,000 motor vehicles and trailers.

Evergreen Shipping Agency (America) was founded in 1968. Evergreen Shipping Agency (America), formerly known as Evergreen America, serves as the US agent for its Taiwan-based parent, shipping giant Evergreen Marine Corporation, as well as two other shipping lines, Italia Marittima and Hatsu Marine Limited. As a shipping agent, the company provides ground-based administrative services and coordinates inland transportation of marine freight. Evergreen Shipping Agency (America) Corp. has about five logistics centers in the US and one in Canada, and it operates through agents in Latin America.

Paragon Shipping Inc. provides shipping transportation services worldwide. The company engages in the ocean transportation of various drybulk cargoes, such as iron ore, coal, grain, bauxite, phosphate, and fertilizers. Its fleet consists of 8 Panamax drybulk carriers, 2 Handymax drybulk carriers, and 2 Supramax drybulk carriers, as well as two 3,426 TEU containerships with an aggregate capacity of approximately 794,634 deadweight tons. Paragon Shipping Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Voula, Greece.

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