Cai International Stock Company Profile

Description

CAI International, Inc. operates as transportation finance and logistics company in the United States and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Container Leasing, Rail Leasing, and Logistics. It leases, re-leases, and disposes containers; and contracts for the repair, repositioning, and storage of containers. The company leases its container equipment to lessees under long-term, short-term, and finance leases primarily to container shipping lines, freight forwarders, and other transportation companies. It also sells containers; and provides container management services to third-party investors, as well as sells used containers. In addition, the company leases railcars consisting of box cars for paper and forest products; covered hoppers for grain, cement, sand, plastic pallets, and other industrial products; general purpose tank cars that are used to transport food-grade and other non-hazardous commodities; gondolas for coal; and general service flat cars. Further, it offers domestic and international logistics services. As of December 31, 2015, the company had a container fleet comprised 1,207,075 cost equivalent units; and an owned fleet of 5,096 railcars in North America. The company was formerly known as Container Applications International, Inc. and changed its name to CAI International, Inc. in February 2007. CAI International, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.