Clarke has Canada covered coast-to-coast. Through Clarke Transport and Clarke Road Transport, the firm provides truckload and less-than-truckload (LTL) freight transportation. (LTL carriers consolidate loads from multiple shippers into a single trailer.) Clarke hauls a variety of goods, including building materials, beverages, metals, pharmaceuticals, and retail products. Its CIS Shipping International runs a time charter vessel transporting goods between Florida and Grand Cayman. Founded in 1921, Clarke operates primarily in Canada, but also in Mexico and the US.

Like a little acorn, Oak Harbor Freight Lines has grown -- into a mighty interstate less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier. (LTL carriers consolidate cargo from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) The company operates from about 35 terminals in California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington; it maintains a fleet of some 500 tractors and 1,800 trailers. It serves the rest of the US through partnerships with LTL carriers such as Dayton Freight, Honolulu Freight Service, New England Motor Freight, and Southeastern Freight Lines. Oak Harbor is owned and run by brothers David and Edward Vander Pol. The company was founded in 1916 and acquired by the Vander Pol family in 1936.

Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation, doing business as Wabtec Corporation, provides technology-based equipment and services for the rail industry. The company operates through two segments, Freight Group and Transit Group. The Freight Group manufactures and services components for new and existing freight cars and locomotives, builds new switcher locomotives, and rebuilds freight locomotives, as well as provides related heat exchange and cooling systems. The Transit Group manufactures and services components for new and existing passenger transit vehicles, typically subway cars and buses, builds new commuter locomotives, and refurbishes subway cars. WAB company’s principal component product lines include railway braking equipment and related components; freight car truck components and undercarriage components; draft gears, couplers, and slack adjusters; air compressors and dryers; positive train control equipment and electronically controlled pneumatic braking products; railway electronics, including event recorders, monitoring equipment, and end of train devices; friction products, including brake shoes and pads; rail and bus door assemblies; accessibility lifts and ramps for buses and subway cars; heat exchangers and cooling products for locomotives and power generation equipment; commuter and switcher locomotives; and transit car and locomotive overhauls. In addition, it designs and builds electronic instrumentation devices for rail and transit markets and manufactures railroad track and signaling products. The company’s customers include railroads and passenger transit authorities in North America, as well as in the United Kingdom, Australia, Europe, Asia, and South Africa; manufacturers of transportation equipment, such as locomotives, freight cars, subway vehicles, and buses; and lessors of such equipment. WAB company was founded in 1869 and is headquartered in Wilmerding, Pennsylvania.

Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. operates as a seaborne shipping and logistics company. The company focuses on the transport and transshipment of drybulk commodities, including iron ore, coal, grain, and fertilizer. As of December 31, 2009, its fleet consisted of 60 vessels, aggregating approximately 6.6 million dwt. It owned 15 Capesize vessels, 13 modern Ultra Handymax vessels, 4 Panamax vessels, and 1 Product Handysize tanker vessel; and operated a fleet of 5 Ultra Handymax, 2 Handysize, 10 Panamax, and 10 Capesize vessels under time charter. In addition, Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. owns and operates vessels, barges, and push boats located in Argentina; bulk transfer and storage port facility in Uruguay; and an upriver liquid port facility located in Paraguay. The company has an in-house technical ship management expertise that works with producers of raw materials, agricultural traders and exporters, industrial end-users, ship owners, and charterers. It operates in the North America, Europe, Asia, and the South America. Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. is headquartered in Piraeus, Greece.

Knight Transportation drivers don't drive long hours into the night. The truckload carrier instead focuses on short- to medium-haul trips, averaging about 500 miles. From some 35 regional operations centers, mainly in the southern, midwestern, and western US, Knight carries such cargo as consumer goods, food and beverages, and paper products. It has a fleet of about 3,700 tractors and 8,500 trailers, including some 700 refrigerated trailers. Besides for-hire hauling, Knight provides dedicated contract carriage, in which drivers and equipment are assigned to a customer long-term. It also offers freight brokerage services. Four members of the Knight family collectively own about 30% of the company.

FreeSeas Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as an international dry bulk shipping company. The company transports various dry bulk commodities, including coal, grains, and iron ore, as well as bauxite, phosphate, fertilizers, steel products, sugar, and rice worldwide. As of December 31, 2008, its fleet consisted of seven Handysize vessels and two Handymax vessels. FreeSeas Inc. was founded in 2004 and is based in Piraeus, Greece.

Frontline Ltd., through its subsidiaries, engages in the ownership and operation of oil tankers and oil/bulk/ore (OBO) carriers. It primarily transports crude oil, as well as raw materials, such as coal and iron ore. The company’s very large crude carriers (VLCCs) primarily transport crude oil from the Middle East Gulf to the Far East, Northern Europe, the Caribbean, and the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port. Its Suezmax tankers trade in the Atlantic Basin and the Middle East to the South East Asia. The company’s OBO carriers transport oil and dry cargo. In addition, it involves in the charter, purchase, and sale of vessels. As of December 31, 2009, it operated a tanker fleet consisting of 76 vessels comprising 41 VLCCs, which are between 200,000 and 320,000 deadweight ton (dwt); 27 Suezmax tankers that are vessels between 120,000 and 170,000 dwt; and 8 Suezmax OBOs, which are chartered, as well as had 5 VLCCs under its commercial management. Frontline Ltd. was founded in 1948 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda.

FNM operates more than 300 km of railways connecting Milan with other northern provinces. The company provides both passenger (rail and bus) and freight transportation services throughout Italy's northernmost Lombardy region. It carries about 60 million passengers a year. FNM also has operations in energy with Azienda Elettrica Ticinese (Nord Energia), communications with Telecom Italia (NordCom), and alternative transportation with car rental and electric vehicle companies. The Lombardy regional government owns a little more than half of FNM, which began operations in 1877; originally Ferrovie Nord Milano, it changed its name to FNM in 2006.

Finnlines, one of Europe's largest liner cargo shipping companies, concentrates its sea transport services in the Baltic and North Seas. It provides ro-ro (roll-on/roll-off) services on routes between Finland and Sweden; Sweden and Germany; and Germany and Russia. It also ferries passengers on ro-pax vessels on routes including Finland-Poland-Germany; Helsinki-Travemunde (Germany); and Lubeck (Germany)-St. Petersburg (Russia), as well as to and from Mediterranean, West African, and North and South American destinations. The group is engaged in port operations in Finland (Finnsteve). Its shipping units include TransRussia Express, FinnLink, and Nordo-Link. Finnlines is part of Italy-based Grimaldi Group.

Russian Railways has about 130 subsidiaries and offices in North Korea, Poland, China, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Hungary and Iran. It was created in 1842 as The Department of Railroads. A big country needs a big railroad and Russia's got it. The government-owned Rossiiskie Zheleznye Dorogi, better known as RZD or Russian Railways, covers more than 53,000 miles of track (second only to the US) across 11 time zones from Sovetskaya on the Sea of Japan to St. Petersburg on the Baltic. It also runs trains to international cities including Helsinki, Beijing, and Budapest. Rossiiskie Zheleznye Dorogi OAO handles nearly 80% of the freight transported in Russia and accounts for about 4% of GDP.

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