From Alava/Araba to Zaragoza, Azkar has the car to get it moved. With a fleet of some 2,200 vehicles -- including around 470 line-haul trailers -- and a network of about 60 distribution centers and almost 30 logistics platforms, Transportes Azkar provides parcel delivery and logistics services for more than 13,000 customers throughout Spain and Portugal. The company offers services elsewhere in Europe and the world through its Azkar Overseas unit and as partners in the Logistics World Alliance of delivery companies. Transportes Azkar, S.A. has also begun making inroads (so to speak) in China. Chairman Luis Fernandez Somoza owns more than half of Transportes Azkar, which was founded in 1933.

Tank truck carrier Miller Transporters hauls bulk commodities such as chemicals and petroleum products from a network of more than 20 terminals in the eastern half of the US. The company operates a fleet of some 500 tractors and 1,100 trailers and carries cargo domestically as well as between the US and Canada and Mexico. A sister company, Miller Intermodal Logistics, arranges the transportation of liquid bulk cargo worldwide. The company that became Miller Transporters was founded in 1942 by Harold Dewey Miller. Its founder's family still owns Miller Transporters.

NV Nederlandse Spoorwegen operates nearly 400 stations in the Netherlands. It has a contract agreement to run the Dutch main rail network until 2015. Nederlandse Spoorwegen (also known as Dutch Railways), the holding company for NS Group, moves more than a million people a day in the Netherlands. NS Group primarily operates passenger trains throughout the country (including a high speed train) but has expanded into the UK, through its subsidiary NedRailways, operating in Liverpool and northern England. It also transports passengers in Germany, Belgium, France, and the Czech Republic. NS Group's other segments include hub development (management of the train stations) and construction.

DF Young was founded in 1903. Daniel F. Young provides air and ocean freight forwarding, customs brokerage, and logistics services to multinational businesses. The company, known as DF Young, also offers ground transportation, including full-truckload (FTL) and less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation, door to door service, and inter-coastal barge transportation. (Freight forwarding companies purchase transportation capacity from carriers and resell it to customers; LTL carriers consolidate freight from multiple shippers into a single trailer.) It operates in five main industry areas: automotive, commercial goods, humanitarian cargo, foreign military sales, and petrochemical. Subsidiary Young Air Cargo Corporation arranges chartered transportation for high security or expedited cargoes.

Koch (pronounced "cook") Companies' collection of eight operating units offers a full menu of transportation services, including truckload freight hauling, logistics, warehousing, and truck and trailer leasing. The company's operations include both long-haul and regional truckload transportation in the US 48-states, as well as capacity in Canada. It also provides dedicated contract carriage, in which drivers and equipment are often assigned to a retailer long-term. Overall it drives a fleet of about 650 tractors and 1,820 trailers. Led by its founder's second generation, Koch Companies is not related to the Kansas-based conglomerate Koch Industries, which is owned by a family that pronounces its name "coke."

Alexander & Baldwin, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates in transportation, real estate, and agribusiness industries in the United States. It offers containership freight services between the ports of Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle, and various ports in Hawaii on the islands of Oahu, Kauai, Maui, and Hawaii, as well as Guam, Micronesia, and China; and vessel services with a fleet of 10 containerships. The company also provides terminal services, including container stevedoring, container equipment maintenance, and other terminal services, as well as rail intermodal service, long-haul and regional highway brokerage, specialized hauling, flat-bed and project work, less-than-truckload, expedited/air freight services, and warehousing and distribution services. Its real estate services comprise development and sale of land, and commercial and residential properties; and ownership, operation, and management of retail, office, and industrial properties. As of December 31, 2009, it owned approximately 88,925 acres, consisting of 88,475 acres in Hawaii and 450 acres on the U.S. Mainland. The company’s agribusiness involves in producing bulk raw sugar, specialty food-grade sugars, molasses, green coffee, and roasted coffee; and marketing and distributing green coffee, roasted coffee, and specialty food-grade sugars. Its agribusiness also engages in generating and selling electricity; and providing general trucking services in Hawaii, including sugar and molasses hauling, and mobile equipment maintenance and repair services. Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. was founded in 1870 and is headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Hamburg Sud is part of the diversified Oetker Group. One of Germany's largest marine transportation companies, Hamburg Sud operates a fleet of about 175 vessels, including some 115 containerships with an overall capacity of about 290,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). The Hamburg Sud fleet also includes dry bulk carriers and tankers. Scheduled liner services for containers make up about 85% of the company's revenues. Hamburg Sud also offers tramp shipping (nonscheduled) for other freight, including refrigerated cargo, runs its own full-service travel agency, specializing in cargo ship travel and leisure cruises, and offers cargo ship management and logistics services to outside customers.

ASTAR Air Cargo helps DHL take on delivery giants FedEx and UPS on their own turf. Hiring the carrier's fleet of about 40 aircraft enables DHL and other customers, including the US Department of Defense and the United States Postal Service, to achieve overnight delivery of virtually any kind of cargo. ASTAR's service includes scheduled as well as chartered flights. In January 2009, ASTAR suffered a blow when -- in order to cut down on costs -- DHL was forced to shut down its express operations within the US. (Through ASTAR and other carriers, DHL still offers international shipping services to and from the US). An investment group led by CEO John Dasburg controls ASTAR.

CCC Transportation (formerly Commercial Carrier Corporation) transports construction materials and other freight with a fleet of more than 1,000 tractors and 2,000 trailers, including dry vans, dry bulk tankers, and flatbeds. Cargo hauled by the company includes dry bulk commodities (cement, fly ash, ground limestone, lime, and slag), consumer products (beverages, glassware, and paper products), and building materials (concrete products, drywall, and lumber). CCC maintains terminals in Florida, Georgia, and Virginia and provides freight transportation services throughout the southeastern US. The company, which was founded in 1953, is a subsidiary of Comcar Industries.

Gordon Trucking Inc. (GTI) provides truckload freight transportation throughout the US and to and from Canada and Mexico. In addition to standard dry freight,Gordon Trucking Inc. company transports temperature-controlled and extra-heavy cargo. Its services include regional, and local hauling, as well as dedicated contract carriage, in which drivers and equipment are assigned long-term to customers.Gordon Trucking Inc. has nine terminal locations and another dozen satellite locations, all in the West or Midwest. GTI operates a fleet of more than 1,400 tractors and about 4,000 trailers. The company is owned and run by the family of Jay Gordon, who founded what is now GTI in 1946.

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