Those familiar brown vans handle most UPS deliveries, but for bigger cargo, there's UPS Ground Freight. The company, known as UPS Freight, provides less-than-truckload (LTL) and truckload freight transportation services throughout North America. (LTL carriers consolidate freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) UPS Freight operates a fleet of about 6,700 tractors and 22,100 trailers from a network of more than 200 terminals. In addition to for-hire LTL and truckload freight services, UPS Freight offers dedicated contract carriage, in which drivers and equipment are assigned to a customer long-term. The company is a subsidiary of package delivery giant UPS.

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.

SMRT works hard to get its customers back home. SMRT Corporation Ltd company provides subway, light rail, bus, and taxi services in Singapore for about 1.3 million commuters a day. The company's main revenue generator is its MRT (mass rapid transit) unit, which operates a network of some 90 km (55 miles) of rail and more than 50 stations. In addition to its transportation operations, SMRT rents commercial space in its train stations and makes money from advertising placed in its stations and on its trains, buses, and taxis. SMRT Corporation Ltd company also provides engineering services. The government of Singapore, through Temasek Holdings, owns a 55% stake in SMRT, which was established in 1987.

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.

ClearFreight, Inc. was founded as an import services and US Customs brokerage specialist in San Francisco in 1973. International logistics service provider ClearFreight clears the way for world trade. The company offers freight forwarding, global shipping, and documentation services. It also tracks US Customs and other agency regulations and processes and monitors fund transactions. ClearFreight, Inc. is a subsidiary of Japan's Sankyo Transportation Co., a freight forwarding, warehousing, and logistic business. ClearFreight operates from about 10 US offices and owns international locations in the Netherlands and Japan.

BW Gas was taken private by the family of CEO Andreas Sohmen-Pao and delisted from the Oslo Stock Exchange in 2009. BW Gas is a leading marine transporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG) with a fleet of about 65 vessels with a deadweight ton (DWT) total of 3.3 million. The company has been busy renewing its fleet by scrapping and selling older vessels. BW Gas plans to concentrate on building its very large gas carriers (VLGCs) fleet. BW Gas is part of BW Group Ltd. (formerly Bergesen d.y. ASA), which also includes BW Offshore, BW Maritime, and BW Fleet Management. Hong Kong-based World-Wide Shipping Group bought Bergesen d.y. ASA in 2003.

Established in 1983, Scriptfleet (formerly Network Express) provides scheduled and rush delivery services, primarily for companies in the pharmaceutical and medical industries. It specializes in delivery and distribution management services for pharmacies that serve nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. It also handles shipments such as lab specimens for medical facilities. The former Network Express was acquired by Ace Expediters, a portfolio company of private equity firm Atlantic Street Capital, in March 2009. It is now one of three divisions within Fleetgistics, a company specializing in same-day scheduled route logistics. (The other two divisions are Medifleet and Partsfleet.)

Established in 1978, the company is owned by the Canadian government. In Canada, you can get where you're going via rail. VIA Rail Canada is Canada's national passenger rail service. The company operates some 500 trains weekly and carries about 4 million passengers a year. Its tracks span more than 12,500 km (7,760 miles) from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Great Lakes to Hudson Bay. With a fleet of about 80 locomotives and 400 passenger cars, the company serves more than 450 communities. VIA Rail offers travel packages aimed at domestic and foreign tourists, along with basic intercity transportation.

Omega Navigation Enterprises Inc. provides marine transportation services through the ownership and operation of double hull product tankers worldwide. Its product tankers transport refined petroleum products, including gasoline, jet fuel, kerosene, naphtha, gas oil, and heating oil. The company’s fleet includes 12 hull product tankers with a carrying capacity of approximately 680,000 dwt, of which 2 double hull product/chemical tankers with a capacity of 47,000 dwt and 2 double hull product/chemical tankers with a capacity of 37,000 dwt are owned through equal partnership joint ventures with a subsidiary of Glencore International, A.G. Omega Navigation Enterprises Inc. was founded in 2005 and is based in Athens, Greece.

The Steamship Authority is a quasi-public agency, created by the Massachusetts legislature, that competes with other private ferries but also oversees and licenses their operations. Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority, known to owners of summer homes and year-round residents as the Steamship Authority, provides ferry service from the Massachusetts ports of Woods Hole and Hyannis to the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, off the coast of Massachusetts. Steamshipauthority operates a fleet of nine vessels designed to carry passengers, vehicles, and other cargo. In 2007, it ferried 2.6 million passengers, 450,000 automobiles, and 153,000 trucks.

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