Dairy state-based Marten Transport hauls more than cheese. The long-haul truckload carrier uses refrigerated and insulated trailers to convey a variety of food products and other temperature-sensitive materials; it also hauls dry freight. Marten Transport operates throughout the US and in parts of Canada; its average haul is about 760 miles. The company's fleet includes about 2,300 tractors and 4,000 trailers. In addition to freight transportation, the company provides logistics services. Among Marten Transport's largest customers are food giants General Mills and Kraft, which collectively account for about 30% of its total revenue each year.

Clarke has Canada covered coast-to-coast. Through Clarke Transport and Clarke Road Transport, the firm provides truckload and less-than-truckload (LTL) freight transportation. (LTL carriers consolidate loads from multiple shippers into a single trailer.) Clarke hauls a variety of goods, including building materials, beverages, metals, pharmaceuticals, and retail products. Its CIS Shipping International runs a time charter vessel transporting goods between Florida and Grand Cayman. Founded in 1921, Clarke operates primarily in Canada, but also in Mexico and the US.

CSX Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides rail-based transportation services in North America. The company offers traditional rail service, and the transport of intermodal containers and trailers. It provides integrated intermodal transportation services linking customers to railroads, through trucks and terminals. CSX Corporation transports crushed stone, sand and gravel, metal, phosphate, fertilizer, food, consumer, agricultural, paper, and chemical products. In addition, it delivers coal, coke, and iron ore to electricity generating power plants, ocean, river, lake piers and terminals, steel makers, and industrial plants, as well as finished vehicles and auto parts. The company also engages in the real estate sale, leasing, acquisition, and management and development activities. As of December 25, 2009, it operated approximately 21,000 route mile rail network and 216,000 freight car fleet in 23 states east of the Mississippi River, the District of Columbia, and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. CSX Corporation was founded in 1978 and is based in Jacksonville, Florida.

Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd. provides sea borne dry bulk cargo transportation services worldwide. Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd. company transports various types of cargo, including iron ore, coal and grain, steel products, fertilizers, cement, bauxite, and sugar and scrap metal. As of March 10, 2010, it owned and operated a fleet of 47 vessels comprising 5 Capesize, 14 Kamsarmax, 21 Panamax, 2 Supramax, and 5 Handymax vessels with a total carrying capacity of approximately 3.9 million deadweight tonnage. Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd. company was founded in 1988 and is based in Athens, Greece.

Bollore makes paper, but it's no paper tiger. Bollore company operates mainly in the transportation and logistics, manufacturing (plastic films and specialty papers), and fuel distribution businesses. Its largest segment, transportation and logistics, includes freight forwarding services and port operations. (As a freight forwarder, Bollore company buys transportation capacity from carriers and resells it to customers.) Bollore offers logistics services worldwide but focuses on trade between Europe and Africa, where Bollore company is a leading port operator. Financiere de l'Odet, a holding company whose principal shareholder is Bollore chairman Vincent Bollore, owns a controlling stake in Bollore company.

Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited, together with its subsidiaries, provides seaborne crude oil, petroleum products, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) transportation services internationally. Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited company offers marine transportation services for national and independent oil companies and refiners under long, medium, and short-term charters. As of March 31, 2010, it operated a fleet of 46 double-hull tankers, including 3 VLCC tankers, 9 suezmax tankers, 12 aframax tankers, 7 panamax tankers, 6 handymax tankers, 8 handysize tankers, and 1 LNG carrier. Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited company was formerly known as MIF Limited and changed its name to Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited in July 2001. Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited was founded in 1993 and is based in Athens, Greece.

Helping its customers keep food products cool, Petit Forestier provides refrigerated trucks and trailers to food suppliers and food processors all over France and in several European countries. The company maintains a fleet of about 21,000 vehicles from some 80 domestic facilities and more than 20 agent locations in Europe. An investment group controlled by the founding Forestier family took the company private in 2007. Petit Forestier was established in 1906.

DryShips, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the ownership and operation of drybulk carriers and drilling rigs that operate worldwide. Its drybulk fleet principally carries various drybulk commodities, including bulk items comprising coal, iron ore, and grains; and minor bulk items, such as bauxite, phosphate, fertilizers, and steel products. As of April 6, 2010, the company owned and operated a fleet of 39 drybulk carriers consisting of 7 Capesize, 28 Panamax, 2 Supramax vessels, and 2 Panamax newbuilding vessels with a combined deadweight tonnage of approximately 3.3 million dwt, as well as owned and operated 2 ultra-deep water semi-submersible drilling rigs and 4 ultra deep-water newbuilding drillships. DryShips Inc. was founded in 2004 and is based in Athens, Greece.

France's state-owned railway company, Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer Francais (SNCF), is still blazing a trail as the nation's primary provider of local and long-distance passenger and freight service. Overall, the SNCF network covers 120 countries, spanning more than 32,000 km (almost 20,000 miles) of track and about 3,000 stations. SNCF's Eurostar joint venture shuttles passengers between Paris and London via the Channel Tunnel ("Chunnel"), and high-speed train operator Thalys links Paris with other European capitals. SNCF's high-speed TGV passenger trains travel at up to 350 mph. About one-third of SNCF's revenues are generated outside of France.

Jets, not bows, power this Arrow. Arrow Air, which does business as Arrow Cargo, flies freight between the US and points south. Operating a fleet of DC-8s and DC-10s from its hub in Miami, the company serves more than 20 cities in Central and South America and the Caribbean. Arrow Cargo's facilities include a 67,000 sq. ft. refrigerated warehouse and more than 155,000 sq. ft of dry cargo space. The company's customers, which consist primarily of freight forwarders, passenger and cargo airlines, and other transportation providers, also include the United States Postal Service and the US Department of Defense. Arrow filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in mid-2010.

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