Conrail is the holding company for Consolidated Rail Corporation (CRC), a freight railroad system that operates in heavily industrialized regions of the northeastern US. Most of the railroad lines and switching and terminal facilities formerly operated by Conrail have been taken over by the company's owners, railroads CSX (42%) and Norfolk Southern (58%). Conrail, however, continues to operate some lines (in total, about 1200 miles) and facilities in the Philadelphia and Detroit metropolitan areas, and in much of New Jersey. To serve customers along those lines, CSX and Norfolk Southern pay Conrail for exclusive line access, and Conrail, through CRC, acts as the local switching and terminal management agent.

Hawaiian Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiary, Hawaiian Airlines, Inc., engages primarily in the scheduled air transportation of passengers and cargo in the United States. It offers daily service on transpacific routes between Hawaii and Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, and San Jose, California; Las Vegas, Nevada; Phoenix, Arizona; Portland, Oregon; and Seattle, Washington, as well as daily service on its inter island routes among the Hawaiian Islands. In addition, the company provides scheduled services on its South Pacific/Australia/Asia routes between Hawaii and Pago Pago, American Samoa; Papeete, Tahiti; Sydney, Australia; and Manila, the Philippines, as well as offers other ad hoc charters. As of December 31, 2009, its fleet consisted of 15 Boeing 717-200 aircraft for its inter island routes; and a fleet of 14 Boeing 767-300 aircraft for its transpacific, South Pacific/Australia/Asia, and charter routes. Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Alma Maritime is building its fleet of ships bought from companies that couldn't stay afloat. The company, which formed in 2008, is purchasing a 170,000 DWT Capesize dry bulk carrier and two 150,000 DWT Suezmax oil tankers, and it has plans for four more ships. Alma Maritime will charter the Capesize carrier with EDF Trading (a subsidiary of Electricite de France) and charter the Suezmax tankers with the oil industry. Empire Navigation, a company owned by CEO Stamatis Molaris, will manage Alma Maritime's vessels. By 2011 Alma Maritime will have four more 158,000 DWT Suezmax tankers, all ready to be chartered by Japan's Sanko Steamship. The company filed to go public in 2010.

Cargo Transportation offering both truckload and less-than-truckload (LTL) transport, Cargo Transportation Services (CTS) hauls dry and refrigerated freight throughout the US. (LTL carriers consolidate freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) Core customers include wholesalers and growers in the produce industry and account for more than one-third of CTS's total revenue. It maintains a fleet of more than 100 trucks and provides other services, including airport-to-airport and cross-border truck transportation, distribution, logistics, and warehousing. CTS maintains terminals in California and Florida.

Roadrunner Transportation Services Holdings (RRTS) has more than one way to run your cargo down the road. The company specializes in less-than-truckload (LTL) freight transportation, which involves combining freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload. In addition, it arranges the transportation of truckload freight and provides logistics services. RRTS operates throughout the US from a network of about 20 terminals. Rather than owning trucks and trailers itself, the company relies on a network of independent contractors and on purchased transportation capacity. Investment firm Thayer | Hidden Creek owns a controlling stake in RRTS and plans to take the company public.

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, known as SEPTA, provides passenger transportation services in the Philadelphia area. The agency's operations include buses, subways and elevated trains, trackless trolleys, and light rail and commuter rail lines. All together, SEPTA maintains more than 300 stations and bus terminals, chiefly in five Pennsylvania counties (Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia) and in the neighboring states of Delaware and New Jersey. Its territory spans some 2,200 sq. mi. The Pennsylvania legislature established SEPTA in 1964, and over the years the agency has acquired the assets of several for-profit transportation companies that operated in the region.

SDV (USA) aims to arrange the transportation of its customers' freight PDQ. SDV (USA) Inc., which provides international air and ocean freight forwarding and logistics services, specializes in serving customers from industries such as in aerospace, high technology, manufacturing, and oil and gas. (As a freight forwarder, SDV (USA) buys transportation capacity from carriers and resells it to customers.) SDV (USA) Inc. operates from more than a dozen offices in major US trade gateways. SDV (USA) is a unit of France-based SDV International Logistics, which itself is a unit of the diversified Bollore group.

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.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services is a leader of the pack. Its intermodal unit, the company's largest, maintains some 2,200 tractors and 40,000 containers and moves customers' cargo by combinations of truck and train. J.B. Hunt's dedicated contract services unit supplies customers with drivers and equipment; it operates about 4,000 company-controlled trucks. The company's truckload transportation unit, which has a fleet of about 1,700 tractors, provides dry van freight transportation service in the US, Canada, and Mexico. A fourth business segment, integrated capacity solutions (ICS), manages freight transportation via third-party carriers as well as J.B. Hunt equipment.

Abdon Callais Offshore, LLC was founded in 1945 by Abdon Callais, grandfather of president and CEO Peter Callais. The Callais family controls the company; other backers have included private equity firm Stonehenge Capital. Abdon Callais Offshore provides freight and passenger transportation services to the offshore oil and gas industry. Abdon Callais Offshore company operates its fleet of about 75 supply vessels, utility vessels, and crew boats in the Gulf of Mexico, serving coastal, shelf, and deepwater projects. It counts both production companies and service companies among its customers.

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