Interstate Distributor provides truckload freight transportation and a full set of complementary offerings. The company's services include standard dry van, temperature-controlled, and heavy cargo hauling, dedicated contract carriage, warehousing and distribution, and intermodal marketing (arrangement of freight transportation by multiple methods, such as truck and train). Interstate Distributor's fleet consists of some 2,200 tractors and 7,400 trailers. The company operates primarily in the western US, but it provides service throughout the 48 contiguous states and in Alaska, Canada, and parts of Mexico. Interstate Distributor was founded in 1933.

Tube Lines Ltd.'s business has gone down the tube -- just where it is supposed to be. Through its 30-year contract with London Underground, the company maintains and improves London's larger underground rail lines (Jubilee, Northern, and Piccadilly). In addition to maintenance operations, the company provides distribution, emergency services, and training programs to London Underground; it has also upgraded about 100 of its rail stations. Transport for London, the government agency that runs the London Underground, bought the Tube Lines shares owned by construction and rail specialists Amey and Bechtel in 2010 for about £400 million (about $580 million), returning Tube Lines to public ownership.

PlanGraphics can do more than read a map. The company provides IT services for geographic information systems (GIS), computer-based mapping applications used with database management software to analyze customer demographics, mineral exploration, military surveillance, crop forecasting, and other data. PlanGraphics' customers include government entities, utilities, and corporations, such as Entergy and the US Army Corps of Engineers. In 2009 Integrated Freight Corp., a Florida-based transportation company, acquired a majority stake in PlanGraphics, which then acquired Integrated Freight. The merged company then sold PlanGraphics' operating subsidiary to CEO John Antenucci.

Watkins Associated Industries does business over the road, on the ground, and by the sea. Its trucking businesses include Highway Transport (liquid bulk cargo, such as chemicals and petroleum), Land Span (general cargo), Sunco Carriers (refrigerated cargo), and Watson Truckload Services (regional general cargo). Other units engage in real estate development (apartment complexes and shopping centers), door and window manufacturing (Tucker Door and Trim Corp.), property and casualty insurance, and seafood processing (Tampa Maid Foods). Bill Watkins founded the family-owned company in 1932 with a $300 pickup truck.

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.

The Bronel Group was founded in 1989 to provide freight services within the UK and has since expanded its reach globally. It expanded its services further through a joint-venture with Box Consolidators. The joint-venture, called BBC Global, specializes in less-than-containerload (LCL) shipments. The Bronel Group carries freight across the land, over the sea, and through the air. Bronel Group Ltd. company hauls from between the UK and Asia/Pacific and North America. It offers a full-service deep-sea shipping, and it provides its own air cargo services. The group also operates four depots in the UK.

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.

Alaska Air Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, Alaska Airlines, Inc. and Horizon Air Industries, Inc., operates as an airline company serving destinations in the western United States, Canada, and Mexico. Alaska Air Group, Inc. provides passenger air services; and freight and mail services primarily to and within the state of Alaska and on the West Coast. As of December 31, 2009, it operated a fleet of 110 jet aircraft; and Horizon Air Industries operated a fleet of 18 jets and 40 turboprop aircraft. Alaska Air Group, Inc. was founded in 1932 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Frozen Food Express Industries, one of the largest temperature-controlled trucking companies in the US. Through its subsidiaries, which include FFE Transportation Services and Lisa Motor Lines, the company transports truckload and less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments in the US, Canada, and Mexico. Hauling temperature-sensitive cargo accounts for most of the company's sales. Frozen Food Express Industries also hauls dry freight, under the American Eagle Lines brand, and offers logistics services. Overall, the company maintains a fleet of about 2,000 tractors and 4,000 trailers. FFE traces its roots to 1946.

Lan Airlines S.A., together with its subsidiaries, provides passenger and cargo air transportation services in Latin America. The company offers air cargo transportation services to other international air carriers, freight-forwarding companies, export oriented companies, and individual consumers. It also provides customs and storage brokerage, aircraft leases, courier, on-board sales, tour operator, third-party maintenance, and ground handling services. The company serves approximately 72 destinations through a network that offers connectivity in Latin America; and links the region with North America, Europe, and the South Pacific, as well as 70 additional international destinations through various alliances. As of February 28, 2010, it operated a fleet of 96 jet aircraft, which comprised of 86 passenger aircraft and 11 cargo aircraft. The company offers its services in Chile, Peru, Argentina, Ecuador, and Brazil; and operates a series of regional and international routes in the United States, Europe, and Oceania. It has strategic partnerships with American Airlines, Iberia, and Qantas. The company was formerly known as Lan Chile S.A. Lan Airlines S.A. was founded in 1929 and is based in Santiago, Chile.

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