ExpressJet Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. ExpressJet Holdings, Inc. owns strategic investments in the air transportation industry, and operates various divisions to leverage the assets of its subsidiaries, including ExpressJet Airlines, Inc. and ExpressJet Services, LLC. ExpressJet Airlines, Inc. serves 134 scheduled destinations in North America and the Caribbean with approximately 1,045 departures per day. The company has a capacity purchase agreement for Continental Airlines, Inc. (Continental); provides clients with customized 41-seat and 50-seat charter options (www.expressjet.com/charter); and offers third-party aviation services, including airport ground handling, aircraft maintenance, aircraft refurbishment work, and aircraft cleaning. As of December 31, 2009, it operated a fleet of 244 aircraft comprising 214 aircraft for Continental under the capacity purchase agreement, and 30 aircraft for corporate aviation under long-term agreements and other ad-hoc charter service arrangements.

Eastern Connection is the largest regional transportation and logistics provider on the East Coast, covering all major zip codes in over 5,000 cities. Founded in 1983, we are open 7 days a week and 365 days a year. Services include EC Priority, EC Ground, EC International, EC Same-Day, EC Logistics, and EC Expedited Mail. We are the only carrier that guarantees the delivery of your ground packages THE NEXT DAY from Maine to Virginia. And now, we're providing international shipping.

DB Schenker Rail Danmark (formerly Railion Scandinavia) handles freight deliveries to and from Denmark and other Scandinavian countries, with both conventional and intermodal transport services offered. (Intermodal hauling involves combinations of more than one mode of transportation, such as trucks and trains.) DB Schenker Rail Danmark is a subsidiary of DB Schenker, one of Europe's leading providers of freight transportation and logistics services. Swedish shipping company Green Cargo owns 49% of DB Schenker Rail Danmark.

One of the regional less-than-truckload (LTL) freight haulers operated by YRC Regional Transportation, USF Reddaway does business in the western US and in western Canada. (LTL carriers consolidate freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) The carrier operates a fleet of some 2,300 tractors and 7,700 trailers from a network of about 70 terminals. It serves about a dozen states and two Canadian provinces. USF Reddaway extends its service into additional regions of the US through connections with other YRC Regional Transportation carriers, including USF Holland.

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.

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.

Compañía Sud Americana de Vapores (CSAV) is a Chilean shipping company that is currently the largest in Latin America. CSAV, one of the oldest shipping companies in the world, was founded in 1872. The company’s business initially consisted exclusively of coastal shipping services but these were rapidly extended along the whole west coast of South America to the Panama Canal before this was opened to regular traffic.CSAV then extended the scope of its business to the United States, followed by Europe, the Far East and Japan, South-East Asia/Pacific Islands and the east coast of South America. The company today offers services for general and bulk cargo, fresh and frozen products and vehicles, using its own and chartered ships, and establishing permanent links between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America and the rest of the world. The growth in trade between the different regions of the world has been essential to the current and future development of all countries and other economic benefits. CSAV has therefore seized the opportunities generated by global sea trade, adapting its services to customer requirements and establishing new routes and services, managing to unite Latin America with the world’s most important ports conveniently and efficiently.

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.

Gardner Trucking carrier operates in about a dozen Western states. Its fleet of 855 tractors and trailers includes trailing equipment includes dry vans, roller vans, curtain vans, double curtain vans, flatbeds, and double flatbeds. Gardner Trucking operates two terminals, in Chino (near Los Angeles) and in Tracy (near Sacramento, San Francisco, and Stockton). The company also offers logistics services. Gardner Trucking was established in 1974 by Ron Gardner. The company was acquired in 1987 by President Ron Lanting.

DHL Express (USA) is the US arm of express delivery giant DHL, which itself is a subsidiary of Germany's Deutsche Post. The operations of DHL Express (USA) are coordinated with those of other DHL express delivery units; overall, DHL serves some 120,000 locations in more than 220 countries and territories worldwide. Besides its express delivery operations, DHL offers supply chain management and freight forwarding services. In order to cut costs and improve DHL Express (USA)'s operating efficiency, in early 2009 Deutsche Post ceased all of its air and ground services within the US. DHL Express (USA) still offers international shipping services to and from the US.

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