Container Leasing Industry Competitors

Unauthorized riders of the rails have a hard time hopping on board this company's rolling stock -- it's all enclosed. Chicago Freight Car Leasing leases covered hopper railcars for use by both railroads and private shippers across North America....

Excel Railcar leases equipment such as covered hopper cars and general purpose railcars to railroad operators. Its railcars are used to transport agriculture products (corn and soybeans) as well as building materials (floor tile), cement, chemicals (petcoke), paper, and plastic pellets....

Give me a "G," give me an "A," give me a "T," give me an "X." What does that spell? GATX. What does GATX Rail do? Leases railcars and locomotives to shippers and railroads. The company, a division of GATX Financial Corporation, leases railcars used to ship chemicals, food, and petroleum products in North America....

Getting rode out of town on a rail might have had negative connotations in the Old West, but it's all in a day's work today for GE Rail Services. The business unit of GE Infrastructure (itself a division of General Electric) leases railcars, intermodal containers, and trailers to agriculture, forest products, petroleum, and steel industry customers....

Mobile Mini knows that storing stuff is no small task. The company manufactures, leases, and sells portable storage containers and mobile offices. Mobile Mini also leases both steel and wood office units in various sizes. Major retailers and construction companies are Mobile Mini's primary customers....

If your freight is going by truck, train, or ship, odds are it might be going in a container owned by TAL International Group. The company is a leading lessor of intermodal freight containers -- steel boxes that come in standard sizes and can be used to move goods over the road, over the rails, or over the water....

CAI International (formerly Container Applications International) is one of the world's leading lessors and managers of shipping containers. Its fleet (66%-managed; 34%-owned) has about 754,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) of capacity. Its leasing segment offers short-term, long-term, and finance (giving the lessee the option to purchase the container at the end of its term) leases....

COSCO Pacific, through its Florens Container business, is a leading lessor of shipping containers. Florens manages a fleet of more than 1.2 million twenty-foot-equivalent units (TEU) from facilities in the Asia/Pacific region, the Americas, and Europe. COSCO Pacific also generates revenue from its stakes in about 25 container terminals, primarily in China's Bohai Rim, Pearl River Delta, and Yangtze River Delta regions....

GATX never tried to unite Georgia and Texas, but the holding company does bring together some diverse businesses. After reorganizing in late 2003, and selling nearly all its aircraft holdings in 2006, the company now operates three divisions: rail (tank and freight car and locomotive leasing), specialty (leases, affiliate investments, and loans), and American Steamship Company (a shipping company with a fleet of self-unloading ships operating on the Great Lakes for nearly 100 years)....

GE SeaCo leases SeaCells by the seashore. GE SeaCo, the 50-50 joint venture between GE and Sea Containers, is one of the world's largest lessors of marine containers. Its fleet has nearly a million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) of capacity....

Interpool is into intermodal interaction: The company leases container chassis, which enable cargo containers to be moved between (and by) ships, trucks, and trains, as well as the containers themselves. Subsidiary Trac Lease manages Interpool's fleet of 238,000 container chassis and operates pools in the US that allow users to share and trade available chassis....

Building an ocean empire is the name of the game for Seacastle. The equipment lessor owns shipping chassis, containers, and containerships that it leases on long-term contracts to international shipping lines and US rail and trucking companies. It owns 249,000 chassis, 552,000 dry freight and 85,000 refrigerated shipping containers, and seven containerships....

Textainer is one of the world's leading lessors and managers of shipping containers. Its fleet (40%-owned; 60%-managed) has more than 2 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) of capacity. Its leasing segment offers four different types of leases: term (specified number of containers for a specified period of time); master (more flexible set of conditions valid for a specified period of time); spot (short lease period); and finance (alternative means of purchasing containers)....

TTX keeps the railroad industry in the US and Canada chugging along by leasing railcars. Railroad operators often opt to lease railcars rather than buy them in order to be more nimble in adjusting to changes in demand. TTX's fleet of more than 210,000 railcars includes three types: intermodal, designed to carry shipping containers; autorack, for vehicles; and general use, for items such as lumber, steel, and farm and construction equipment....

Union Tank Car (UTLX) provides railroad tank cars to companies for the shipment of everything from corn syrup to caustic soda. The company's tank cars have capacities ranging from about 13,000 gallons to more than 33,000 gallons. Subsidiary UTLX Manufacturing handles the manufacture of UTLX's tank cars....

Global transportation equipment lessor XTRA Corporation operates a diverse fleet of over-the-road trailers, intermodal trailers ("piggyback" trailers), and intermodal equipment. Its XTRA Lease division provides rental, lease, and lease/purchase packages and operates a fleet of more than 125,000 trailers, including dry vans, flat beds, reefers, and specialty equipment, over-the-road trailers, intermodal trailers, domestic containers, and chassis for container transport....

With a fleet of more than 125,000 trailers, XTRA Lease is in it for the long haul. The company offers rental, lease, and lease/purchase packages for over-the-road trailers (including refrigerated, storage, and flatbed trailers), dry vans, and specialty equipment through 90 locations throughout North America....