The Panalpina group is one of the world’s leading suppliers of forwarding and logistics services, specializing in end-to-end supply chain management solutions and intercontinental air freight and ocean freight shipments. Thanks to its in-depth industry knowledge and state-of-the-art IT systems, Panalpina provides globally integrated door-to-door services tailored to its customers’ individual needs. The Panalpina Group operates a close-knit network with some 500 branches in more than 80 countries. In a further 80 countries, it cooperates closely with partner companies. Panalpina employs about 14,000 people worldwide.

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.

DB Schenker Rail UK was created in 1996 through a merger of several units of the former national monopoly, British Rail, which had been privatized. German rail transport and logistics giant Deutsche Bahn acquired the company in 2007 and integrated the company with its DB Schenker unit. DB Schenker Rail UK (formerly English Welsh & Scottish Railway) serves as the backbone of the UK's freight rail. Operating hundreds of trains daily, it hauls goods for businesses in the construction, energy, and manufacturing sectors. Besides offering coverage throughout its home country, the company provides service to continental Europe through the Channel Tunnel via a joint venture with French rail operator SNCF.

R+L Carriers wants to add your freight to its trucks. The company provides freight transportation and logistics services throughout the US, primarily operating as a less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier. (LTL carriers combine freight from multiple carriers into a single truckload.) Its R+L Global segment arranges for international freight to be shipped by air and sea. R+L Carriers offers service in all 50 states, as well as in Canada, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. Overall it operates a fleet of some 13,000 tractors and trailers. CEO Ralph Larry Roberts founded the family-owned company in 1965, starting with a single truck that was used to haul furniture.

Osterreichische Bundesbahnen-Holding, or OBB-Holding, keeps railway traffic on track in Austria. The company's subsidiaries transport goods and passengers by train and bus, maintain the rail infrastructure, manage the rail network, develop real estate, and provide IT and personnel services to companies within the organization. OBB-Holding took its current form in 2005, when it was charged with providing strategic direction for the restructuring of the state-owned Osterreichische Bundesbahnen (Austrian Railway). OBB-Holding is owned by the Austrian government.

Dohrn Transfer hauls freight throughout the Midwest -- Illinois and Iowa as well as in parts of eight neighboring states. (LTL carriers consolidate loads from multiple shippers into a single trailer.) The company operates through a network of 23 terminals in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri, and Nebraska. Dohrn Transfer also provides truckload freight transportation, local cartage, and warehousing services. It boasts 450 tractors and more than 1,300 trailer vans as well as refrigerated trailers, flat beds, and smaller vehicles. Family owned and operated, Dohrn Transfer was founded by president Gary Dohrn in 1981.

Northland Services spends much of its time in the waters of the northern Pacific. Through its fleet of forklifts, cranes, loaders, trucks, tractors, and shipping platforms, the company transports freight on barges between Seattle and ports in Alaska and Hawaii, as well as along rivers in Alaska. It operates marine terminals in Seattle, Alaska, and Hawaii that handle a variety of freight, including hazardous, oversized, and refrigerated shipments. Major Northland shareholders include the company's management team, founders James Haagen and Dunlap Towing, and Portland, Oregon-based investment firm Endeavour Capital. Northland was founded in 1977.

It would take quite a few Xs to mark all the spots where Quik X Transportation delivers freight. The less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier provides expedited service shore-to-shore within Canada, and to points in the US. (LTL carriers consolidate freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.) Operating through four divisions, Quik X specialties include trade-show services, high-tech equipment handling, and temperature-controlled transport. Affiliates Quik X Logistics and QuiktraX Intermodal coordinate LTL and truckload transportation, and related freight services in North America. Catering to paper and air cargo markets, Roadfast offers truckload services between Ontario, Quebec, and the Northeastern US.

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.

Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc., a bulk shipping company, engages primarily in the ocean transportation of crude oil and petroleum products. It owns and operates a fleet of oceangoing vessels and involves in the transportation of liquid and dry bulk cargoes. The company primarily serves independent and state-owned oil companies, oil traders, and government entities. As of December 31, 2009, it owned and operated a fleet of 106 vessels, aggregating 10.9 million deadweight tons and 864,800 cubic meters, of which 84 vessels operated in the international market and 22 operated in the United States Flag market. The company’s newbuilding program of owned and chartered-in vessels totaled 23 international and the U.S. Flag vessels. Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. was founded in 1948 and is based in New York, New York.

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