Coras Iompair Eireann is king of the road (and rail) in Ireland. The company, known as the CIE Group, operates the Dublin Bus, Bus Atha Cliath, and Bus Eireann units as well as the Iarnrod Eireann passenger and freight rail system. Most of the CIÉ Group's revenue comes from its road passenger operations. Other operations include tourism, property sales, food service, and outdoor advertising sales. The company's CIE Tours International bus tour company primarily does business in North America. The CIE Group is wholly owned by the government of Ireland.

As the postal service for the low-lying Netherlands, Royal TNT Post doesn't mind getting its feet wet to deliver the mail. The company, a subsidiary of global posting services giant TNT, collects, sorts, and delivers direct mail, letters, and packages; it handles some 5 billion items annually. Other TNT units provide business mail services in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Slovakia, and the UK. Royal TNT Post also participates in Spring, a global mail services joint venture with Singapore Post and the UK's Royal Mail. In addition, its Cendris unit offers database marketing and document management services.

Staying cool is a must for Stevens Transport. An irregular-route, refrigerated truckload carrier (or reefer), Stevens hauls temperature-controlled cargo throughout the US, covering the 48 contiguous states. Through alliances Stevens also covers every province in Canada and every state in Mexico. The company operates a fleet of about 1,850 tractors and 3,100 refrigerated trailers from a network of more than a dozen service centers. Partnerships with railroads allow Stevens to arrange intermodal transport of temperature-controlled cargo. The company also provides third-party logistics services. Chairman and CEO Steven Aaron owns Stevens Transport, which he founded in 1980.

Seaspan's containerships span the globe for major headliners. Seaspan Corporation charters its lineup of vessels on long-term contracts to liner operators that need to expand their fleets. Customers have included China Shipping Container Lines, COSCON (a unit of China COSCO Holdings), and Hapag-Lloyd USA, a subsidiary of Hapag-Lloyd. Seaspan maintains a fleet of nearly 70 vessels with an overall capacity of more than 187,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). Seaspan Corporation is part of the Washington Marine Group, which in turn is an affiliate of The Washington Companies, a group of transportation- and natural resources-related businesses controlled by Dennis Washington.

Amerijet International moves freight by multiple methods not only in the Americas and not only by jet. The company provides scheduled air cargo services in North, South and Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, with a fleet of about 15 Boeing aircraft. Amerijet also arranges ground transportation of its customers' freight in North America and offers air and sea freight forwarding services worldwide. (As a freight forwarder, the company buys capacity from transportation providers and resells it to customers.) The company maintains about 370,000 sq. ft. of warehouse space. Miami-based investment firm H.I.G. Capital Management owns a controlling stake in Amerijet.

Less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier Ward Trucking operates primarily in the northeastern and mid-Atlantic US. (LTL carriers consolidate freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) In addition to its LTL business, the company offers full truckload and logistics services through the Ward Transport & Logistics brand name. Ward Trucking operates a fleet of about 375 tractors, 70 trucks, and 800 trailers from a network of terminals, stretching from New York to Illinois. William W. Ward founded the company in 1931 to haul freight from central Pennsylvania to New York City. Ward Trucking is run by members of the Ward family.

Norfolk Southern Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in the rail transportation of raw materials, intermediate products, and finished goods. Its operations consist of the transportation of coal, coke, and iron ore products; automotive products, such as finished vehicles and auto parts; chemicals consisting of sulfur and related chemicals, petroleum products, chlorine and bleaching compounds, plastics, rubber, industrial chemicals, chemical wastes, and municipal wastes; metals and construction products comprising steel, aluminum products, machinery, scrap metals, cement, aggregates, bricks, and minerals; agriculture and consumer products, including soybeans, wheat, corn, fertilizer, animal and poultry feed, food oils, flour, beverages, canned goods, sweeteners, consumer products, and ethanol; and paper, clay, and forest products, which include lumber and wood products, pulp board and paper products, wood fibers, wood pulp, scrap paper, and clay. The company’s intermodal traffic includes shipments moving in trailers, domestic and international containers, and roadrailer equipment.It handles these shipments on behalf of intermodal marketing companies, international steamship lines, truckers, and other shippers. The company also transports overseas freight through various Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports, as well as provides a range of logistics services. In addition, it operates and leases regularly scheduled passenger trains and commuter trains. Further, Norfolk Southern Corporation engages in the acquisition, leasing, and management of coal, oil, gas, and minerals; development of commercial real estate; telecommunications; and leasing or sale of rail property and equipment. As of December 31, 2009, it operates approximately 21,000 miles in 22 states and the District of Columbia. The company was founded in 1883 and is based in Norfolk, Virginia.

The Arkansas & Missouri Railroad was created in 1986 with a purchase of track from Burlington Northern. The Arkansas & Missouri Railroad hauls a variety of bulk freight over about 150 miles of track in northwestern Arkansas and southwestern Missouri -- specifically, between Van Buren and Fort Smith, Arkansas, and Monett, Missouri. The company supplements its rail freight operations with transload services -- transferring cargo between railcars and trucks and vice versa. In addition to serving commercial customers, the company operates excursion trains for passengers in the scenic Boston Mountains, which are part of the Ozarks.

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.

Founded in 1970, the company is a unit of New Zealand-based logistics provider Mainfreight Limited, which also has operations in Asia and Australia. Mainfreight, Inc. (which does business as Mainfreight USA) arranges the transportation of its customers' cargo and provides services that include handling, packing, and containerization, as well as preparation of shipping documents. It focuses on shipments heavier than 50 lbs. that require second-day delivery. Items transported include clothing, computers and other electronic equipment, and software. On its own and through agents, Mainfreight USA has facilities in more than 35 US cities.

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