Evergreen Shipping Agency (America) was founded in 1968. Evergreen Shipping Agency (America), formerly known as Evergreen America, serves as the US agent for its Taiwan-based parent, shipping giant Evergreen Marine Corporation, as well as two other shipping lines, Italia Marittima and Hatsu Marine Limited. As a shipping agent, the company provides ground-based administrative services and coordinates inland transportation of marine freight. Evergreen Shipping Agency (America) Corp. has about five logistics centers in the US and one in Canada, and it operates through agents in Latin America.

Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) is on track in the railway business. The biggest transport operator in Switzerland, it offers passenger and freight rail services throughout the country. More than 327 million passengers and 54 million tons of freight use the SBB railway annually. Its passenger service unit has a 25% share of the transportation market with commuters leading that group. The company's SBB Cargo unit handles its freight rail operations within the country, as well as to neighboring countries (primarily with routes to Germany and Italy). The SBB Real Estate unit operates the RailCity train stations and earns rental income from the shops and kiosks while SBB Infrastructure keeps everything running.

The main US arm of Toronto-based company Vitran, Vitran Express provides less-than-truckload (LTL) freight transportation services. (LTL carriers consolidate freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) Vitran Express operates from a network of about 110 terminals in about 30 states in the midwestern, mid-Atlantic, southwestern, and western US. The company extends service elsewhere in the US through alliances with other LTL carriers. In addition, Vitran Express partners with its parent's Canadian LTL unit to offer cross-border service.

B+H Ocean Carriers Ltd. engages in the acquisition, investment, ownership, operation, and sale of vessels for dry bulk and liquid cargo transportation. Its fleet includes product tankers, the single-deck oceangoing vessels that are designed to transport liquid bulk commodities, such as refined petroleum products, vegetable oils, caustic soda, and molasses. The company’s fleet also includes ore/bulk/oil combination carriers (OBOs), which are used to transport liquid, iron ore, or bulk products, including coal, grain, bauxite, crude oil, phosphate, sugar, steel products, and other dry bulk commodities. As of December 31, 2008, it owned and operated four MR product tankers, one Panamax product tanker, two bulk carriers, and five OBOs. B+H Ocean Carriers Ltd. company was founded in 1988 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Ameriflight takes flight across the Americas, delivering time-sensitive packages for banks and for other air cargo carriers. The company serves some 200 communities, primarily in the western US but also elsewhere in the US and in Canada and Mexico. Managing 75,000 packages a day, it operates a fleet of about 170 aircraft, consisting of small jets and turboprops from several manufacturers, from about a dozen hubs. The company serves other air cargo carriers by meeting their larger air freighters at major airports and distributing cargo to markets not easily served by big aircraft. Ameriflight is owned by its management team.

Alan Ritchey has interests in transportation, agriculture, and construction materials. The company's truckload transportation unit mainly moves mail for the United States Postal Service; in addition, it hauls commodities used by Alan Ritchey's agricultural businesses and general freight. It has a fleet of some 200 trucks and 1,800 trailers. Alan Ritchey also operates mail transport equipment service centers for the Postal Service. The company's Martindale Feed Mill division operates mills, a feed store, and a grain storage facility in Texas; Alan Ritchey also owns a dairy in Oklahoma and a sand mining business in Texas. Alan Ritchey and his family own the company, which he founded in 1963.

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.

State-owned China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company, known as COSCO Group, is one of the world's leading marine transportation companies. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, COSCO Group operates a fleet of about 800 containerships, bulk carriers and other vessels with an overall capacity of 50 million deadweight tons. In addition, the company is engaged in freight forwarding, logistics, real estate, ship building and repairing, container manufacturing, and terminal operations. It maintains facilities in more than 160 countries around the world. COSCO Group should not be confused with a rival state-owned marine transportation enterprise with a similar name, China Shipping (Group) Company.

Con-way Freight specializes in next-day and second-day less-than-truckload (LTL) freight transportation. (LTL carriers consolidate loads from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) Con-way Freight company operates throughout the US, with an extended network in North America via Con-way Freight Canada and Con-way Mexico. Transborder services extend to Canada, Mexico, Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean. Overall, Con-way Freight operates a fleet of about 8,300 tractors and 26,000 trailers from some 365 terminals. Con-way Freight is the main subsidiary of Con-way, which also owns supply chain management and truckload freight transportation businesses.

DATS Trucking specializes in less-than-truckload (LTL) freight transportation in the western US, but that's not all there is to the company's operations. In addition to its LTL operations, in which freight from multiple shippers is combined into a single trailer, DATS Trucking provides truckload transportation. The company's tanker division, Overland Petroleum, transports gasoline, diesel fuel, and other petroleum products. Overall, DATS Trucking operates a fleet of about 500 tractors and 2,500 trailers. It offers LTL service outside its home territory via The Reliance Network, a group of regional carriers that covers the US and Canada. President and CEO Don Ipson founded DATS Trucking in 1988.

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