New Century Transportation is bringing a different style of less-than-truckload (LTL) delivery to the new century. A transportation services company, New Century offers LTL services (where carriers consolidate freight from multiple shippers into a single trailer) to industrial, chemical, food, and other companies. Unlike many LTL carriers, the company offers a signature LTL service it calls "Load-to-Deliver," which involves delivering freight directly to customers rather than to a hub. It operates a fleet of more than 980 tractors and 2,100 trailers in the northeastern US, as well as across other parts of the US and Canada. The company -- formed at the turn of the century in 2000 -- filed to go public in 2010.

Burns Motor Freight hauls wood products and other cargo in the eastern half of the US and into eastern Canada. Serving timber producers in Appalachia, the company operates from three terminals in West Virginia. Burns Motor Freight is owned and run by members of the Burns family. Fred Burns Sr. founded the company with a single used tractor in 1949.

GTS Transportation provides dry van and flatbed truckload freight transportation. In addition to for-hire freight hauling,GTS Transportation company offers dedicated contract carriage, in which drivers and equipment are assigned to a customer long-term. Other GTS units include Aero Bulk, which transports pressurized gases and liquid chemicals, LCT Transportation Services, which handles temperature-controlled freight, and Freight Brokers of America. Collectively, GTS' transportation businesses operate about 1,150 tractors and 2,830 trailers. GTS Transportation was created in 2009 to distance itself from Gainey Corporation, its former business that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in late 2008.

Throughout our history, American Steamship Company (ASC) has been a pioneer in Great Lakes vessel transportation. Founded in Buffalo, New York in 1907, American Steamship Company has witnessed and responded to dramatic changes in Great Lakes shipping and the industries it serves, many times leading the way with innovative solutions that have had a positive impact on lakes shipping throughout the years. Our Great Lakes fleet consists of self-unloading vessels that range in length from 635-feet to 1,000-feet. The diversity of our asset base enables us to transport a variety of dry bulk commodities including iron ore pellets, coal and limestone aggregates. Our single trip vessel carrying capacity ranges from 24,000 to 70,000 net tons. During the navigation season, our vessels operate twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week and require no onshore assistance to unload cargo. Unloading speeds range from 7,000 to 10,000 net tons per hour. Today, under the ownership of GATX Corporation, ASC continues to provide safe, efficient and environmentally responsible waterborne transportation. We are dedicated to continuously building value for GATX, our customers, our employees and the communities in which we live and operate.

Dynamex knows the dynamics of same-day delivery. Dynamex company provides both scheduled and on-demand delivery of time-sensitive items such as medical supplies, financial documents, and office products. It has built its delivery services around a network of ground couriers that focus on intracity deliveries. Most of its drivers are independent contractors; it uses third-party air and ground carriers to fulfill same-day intercity services. Dynamex also supports customers in outsourcing certain logistics functions, including management of dedicated vehicle fleets and facilities -- such as mailrooms and inventory-tracking call centers. In 2010 the company agreed to be acquired by affiliates of Greenbriar Equity.

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.

No, TransAm Trucking isn't that movie where Burt Reynolds helps haul beer from Texas to Georgia -- that was Smokey and the Bandit. TransAm Trucking does haul freight in the South, and in most of the rest of the US, and the company has carried a little beer in its time, along with other products that require temperature-controlled transportation. It operates a fleet of about 1,200 tractors and 2,400 refrigerated trailers. But no black Pontiac Trans Ams with T-tops. In addition to for-hire transportation, TransAm Trucking offers dedicated fleet services, in which drivers and equipment are assigned to customers long-term. The company was founded in 1987.

DHL Global Mail company is part of the mail business segment of its parent, German postal giant Deutsche Post. DHL Global Mail doesn't actually deliver the mail, but the company does work to speed its arrival. A provider of mail processing and distribution services for business customers, DHL Global Mail operates from more than 20 terminals throughout North America. The company takes mail from its customers that is bound for various destinations, sorts it, and gets it to the post office distribution facility closest to its destination. It also provides international distribution services to some 220 countries through affiliates; in total, DHL Global Mail's international network consists of about 50 processing facilities.

Dynalink Systems Inc. was founded in 1992 and has offices in Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, and New York, as well as Shanghai. Dynalink is owned by freight company C.R. England. Dynalink Systems specializes in ocean-freight forwarding services. The company acts as a non-vessel operating common carrier (NVOCC), purchasing capacity from ocean carriers and reselling it to shippers. Dynalink manages both imports and exports, and it can handle both full containers and less-than-containerload (LCL) shipments. Other services include airfreight forwarding, supply chain management, warehousing, and arranging ground transportation of customers' cargo.

Ship Finance International Limited, through its subsidiaries, owns and operates vessels and offshore related assets in Bermuda, Cyprus, Malta, Liberia, Norway, the United States, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the Marshall Islands. The company also involves in the charter, purchase, and sale of assets. As of December 31, 2009, it owned 32 oil tankers, 8 oil/bulk/ore carriers, 1 dry bulk carrier, 8 container vessels, 1 jack-up drilling rig, 3 ultra-deepwater drilling units, 6 offshore supply vessels, and 2 chemical tankers. The company offers its services to various sectors of shipping and offshore industry, including oil transportation, drybulk shipments, chemical transportation, container transportation, drilling rigs, and offshore supply vessels. Ship Finance International Limited was founded in 2003 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda.

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