ITAL Logistics is a British freight company with Italian flavor. The firm began by specializing in shipping freight between the UK and Italy, but has since expanded its service to include Spain, Greece, Portugal, and about a half dozen Western European countries. ITAL Logistics provides weekly scheduled and expedited (within 48 hours) freight transport. Within each country, it partners with other regional logistics companies to provide ground and ocean shipping services. Though headquartered in the Manchester area, ITAL Logistics has a depot in the Midlands and in the South of England to provide complete coverage throughout the UK. ITAL Logistics was founded in 2000.

Saia -- you say it "sigh-ah" -- is a holding company for less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier Saia Motor Freight Line. (LTL carriers consolidate freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) Saia Motor Freight specializes in regional and interregional services, including time-definite and expedited transportation; it also offers truckload freight hauling. The carrier operates a fleet of some 3,200 tractors and 11,200 trailers from a network of about 150 terminals. Saia's service territory spans about 35 states in the South, Southwest, Midwest, as well as Pacific Northwest, and West US. It offers coverage elsewhere in North America through partnerships with other carriers.

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.

Trailer Bridge, Inc., an integrated trucking and marine freight carrier, provides freight transportation services between the continental United States, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. It provides services through southbound containers and trailers, as well as through marine vessels that are configured to carry 48 inch and 53 inch long, and 102 inch wide high-cube equipment. The company also involves in moving new and used automobiles, non-containerized or freight not in trailers, and freight moving in shipper owned or leased equipment. It offers highway transportation services in the continental United States; and marine transportation services between Jacksonville, Florida, San Juan, Puerto Rico and Puerto Plata, and the Dominican Republic. The company also provides rail transportation services. In addition, it engages in chartering its vessels that are not in liner service to third party operators. Trailer Bridge, Inc. ships furniture, apparel, consumer goods, and raw materials for manufacturing, electronics, apparel, and new and used automobiles to Puerto Rico; and healthcare products, pharmaceuticals, electronics, shoes, and recyclables from Puerto Rico. As of December 31, 2009, it owned and operated a fleet of 134 tractors comprising 80 company owned units, and 54 leased and owner operated units; 3,924 high cube containers; 3,158 chassis; 210 high-cube trailers; 299 vehicle transport modules; 204 dry van trailers; 2 736’ triple-deck, ro/ro ocean-going barges and 2 403’ TBC’s, as well as leased 314 chassis and 482 high-cube containers, and chartered 3 TBC’s. Trailer Bridge, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.

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.

Patriot Transportation Holding gets tanked whenever it can. The company's Transportation segment, comprising Florida Rock & Tank Lines subsidiary, transports liquid and dry bulk commodities, mainly petroleum (including ethanol) and chemicals, in tank trucks. Patriot Transportation's combined fleet of about 400 trucks and more than 500 trailers operates primarily in the southeastern and mid-Atlantic US. Customer Murphy Oil accounts for almost 25% of segment revenues. The company's Real Estate unit, comprising Florida Rock Properties and FRP Development, owns office and warehouse properties, as well as sand and gravel deposits on the East Coast that are leased to Vulcan Materials Company.

Estes Express Lines is a multiregional less-than-truckload (LTL) freight hauler. (LTL carriers consolidate freight from multiple shippers into a single trailer.) Estes Express Lines company operates a fleet of about 7,700 tractors and 22,000 trailers from a network of about 200 terminals throughout the US. Estes Express offers service in Canada through ExpressLINK alliance partner TST Overland Express; it works with other companies to offer service in the Caribbean and in Mexico. In addition, it Estes Forwarding Worldwide subsidiary provides ocean and air freight forwarding services. Founded by W.W. Estes in 1931, the company is owned and operated by the Estes family.

McKenzie Tank Lines fills its tanks with liquid and dry bulk cargo before hitting the road. The company handles chemical and petroleum products with its fleet of about 360 tractors and 1,000 trailers. McKenzie Tank Lines' fleet includes a variety of tank trailers, including models equipped to handle high-pressure cargo, as well as van trailers. The company maintains a network of more than 30 terminals, primarily in the Southeastern US. McKenzie Tank Lines provides service throughout the US and in Canada; it does business in Mexico through a partnership. The company was founded by Guy McKenzie Sr. in 1949.

Barthco International provides global logistics and freight forwarding services. The company arranges air and ocean transportation of its customers' cargo through a network of independent carriers. (As a freight forwarder, Barthco buys transportation capacity from carriers and resells it to shippers.) Managing over 700,000 shipments each year, the company specializes in working with biotech companies and in handling shipments of fine art, valuables, and live animals. In addition, Barthco provides customs brokerage and warehousing and distribution services. It is a unit of Ozburn-Hessey Logistics, a supply chain management company operating through a network of about 120 distribution hubs around the globe.

DHT Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiary, DHT Maritime, Inc., operates a fleet of double-hull crude oil tankers. As of March 25, 2010, the company’s fleet consisted of 3 very large crude carriers, which were tankers ranging in size from 200,000 to 320,000 deadweight tons (dwt); 2 Suezmax tankers that were tankers ranging in size from 130,000 to 170,000 dwt; and 4 Aframax tankers, which were tankers ranging in size from 80,000 to 120,000 dwt. Its fleet principally operates on international routes and had a combined carrying capacity of 1,656,921 dwt. DHT Holdings, Inc. is based in St. Helier, the Channel Islands.

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