Crowley Maritime Corporation, based in Oakland, California, and founded in 1892, is primarily a family and employee-owned company that provides transportation and logistics services in US and international markets by means of four operating lines of business: Liner Services; Logistics Services; Petroleum Services and Marine Services. Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Color_Crowley_Logo. ... Jump to: navigation, search Aerial view looking west over downtown Oakland, Lake Merritt and the Port of Oakland. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1892 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about: United States Wikinews has news related to this article: United States United States government CIA World Factbook Entry for United States House. ...

As of November, 2005, the company employs approximately 3,800 people and provides its services using a fleet of more than 300 vessels, consisting of RO-RO vessels, LO-LO vessels, Tankers, tugs and barges. Crowley's land-based facilities and equipment include terminals, warehouses, tank farms, and specialized vehicles. Jump to: navigation, search RORO and ro-ro are acronyms for Roll On/Roll Off; a type of ferry or cargo ship that carries wheeled cargo such as automobiles, trailers or railway carriages. ... A tanker is a ship designed to transport liquids in bulk. ... Jump to: navigation, search TUG is a three-letter acronym which can stand for: Graz University of Technology in Graz, Austria the TeX Users Group The Ultimate Group, an entertainment production company, founded by Chris Stokes Tie Up Games (a form of bondage) For the word tug, see Tug (disambiguation). ... Jump to: navigation, search Self propelled barge carrying bulk crushed stone A barge is a flat-bottomed boat, built mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods. ...

History

The company was formed in 1892 when founder Thomas Crowley, the grandfather of current (as of November, 2005) Chairman, President and CEO Thomas B. Crowley, Jr., purchased an 18-foot Whitehall boat to provide transportation of personnel and supplies to ships anchored on San Francisco Bay. Within a few years, services broadened to include bay towing and ship assist services. In addition to acquiring larger vessels, the company expanded in the 1920s into Los Angeles Harbor with tugboats for ship assists and into Puget sound with tug and barge transportation. Bulk petroleum transportation joined the list of company services in 1939. Jump to: navigation, search 1892 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... A chairman is the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body. ... Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ... Jump to: navigation, search San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and the Golden Gate The San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary in which water draining approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean. ...

In 1958, Crowley initiated its long commitment to arctic transportation with an agreement to resupply the U.S. government’s distant early warning radar and communication system on the Alaska coastline. It was the first penetration of the Arctic by commercial tug and barge services. This led to Crowley’s Alaska common carrier services whereby railcar, breakbulk, containerized and bulk petroleum cargoes were delivered to more than 130 villages, many of which lacked docking facilities.

When oil was discovered at Prudhoe Bay, the oil industry turned to Crowley for help. Beginning in 1968, utilizing the earlier pioneering experience in the Arctic, Crowley began summer sealifts of equipment, supplies, buildings and production modules to Prudhoe Bay. Since then, 334 barges carrying nearly 1.3 million tons of cargo have been successfully delivered to the North Slope, including modules the size of ten story buildings and weighing nearly 6000 tons.

In the 1970s, Crowley began transporting cargo between the U.S. and Puerto Rico and later expanded into the rest of the Caribbean, Central America and South America. The service primarily consisted of ships and large, triple-deck barges, some of which were 730 feet in length, carrying cargo in trailers and containers.

In 1989, Crowley tugs were first on the scene of the crippled tanker Exxon Valdez in Prince William Sound, Alaska. The oil spill was the largest in U.S. history and Crowley was the prime supplier of marine equipment and personnel for the cleanup. To try to avoid future disasters, the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company contracted with Crowley to provide tanker assist and escort work in Valdez and Prince William Sound using tugs with “best available technology.”

In mid-1994, the top leadership of the corporation changed for only the second time in more than 100 years. Following the passing of his father Thomas B. Crowley, Jr. was unanimously elected president, chairman of the board, and chief executive officer.

In the last 10 years, Crowely has shed some of its businesses, including its Red & White Fleet passenger ferry services in San Francisco and its South America shipping services, while expanding in other areas through a series of acquisitions. Crowley bought Marine Transport Corporation, a petroleum and chemical transportation company; Speed Cargo Services, a non-vessel owner common carrier (NVOCC); Apparel Transportation, a Central America logistics services provider to the apparel industry, and Yukon Fuel Company and Service Oil and Gas, which are Alaska-based fuel distribution and sales companies.

Crowley had expanded its petroleum carrying capabilities in recent years with the construction of four new 155,000-barrel articulated tug barge (ATB) tank vessels. Six more 185,000-barrel ATBs are on order with a shipyard and scheduled for delivery by the end of 2008.

The business was incorporated in the State of Delaware as "Crowley Maritime Corporation" on December 1, 1972. The present structure, in which Crowley Maritime Corporation is a holding company for the business lines, was put in place in 1992. The Company is predominantly owned by members of the Crowley family and company employees, and its shares do not trade on any national securities exchange or in any market. Revenue in 2004 was approximately $1 billion. Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: The First State Other U.S. States Capital Dover Largest city Wilmington Governor Ruth Ann Minner (D) Senators Joe Biden (D) Thomas Carper (D) Official languages None Area 6,452 km² (49th)  - Land 5,068 km²  - Water 1,387 km² (21. ... Jump to: navigation, search December 1 is the 335th (in leap years the 336th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Jump to: navigation, search A holding company is a company that owns enough voting stock in another firm to control management and operations by influencing or electing its board of directors. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1992 was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... See stock (disambiguation) for other meanings of the term stock A stock, also referred to as a share, is commonly a share of ownership in a corporation. ... A securities exchange provides a market for buying and selling financial securities. ...

Business Segments

Liner Services

Crowley operates ocean cargo carrier services between the United States and Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, Bahamas, Central America, Dominican Republic, Haiti and Cuba. Services include regularly scheduled liner operations for cargo shipped in containers and/or trailers; rolling stock such as cars, trucks, buses and construction equipment; and breakbulk, heavy lift and over-dimensional items via their fleet of specialty equipment and vessels. ... Jump to: navigation, search Central America is the region of North America located between the southern border of Mexico and the northwest border of Colombia, in South America. ... A liner is a big passenger ship where the passengers can sleep onboard. ... Containers in the port of Kotka (Finland) on the Baltic Sea. ... A Trailer is an unpowered vehicle pulled by one with an engine. ... A railroad car (or, more briefly, car), also known as an item of rolling stock in British parlance, is a vehicle on a railroad or railway that is not a locomotive - one that provides another purpose than purely haulage, although some types of car are powered. ...

Logistics

As a third-party logistics provider (3PL), Crowley offers supply chain management and transportation management services including: freight forwarding, ocean, inland, and air transportation, customs house brokerage, cargo insurance and warehousing and distribution. The company's US Trucking and Distribution Center serves as the heart of its logistics framework, enabling clients to combine and tailor services as needed, and tap into the company's materials and shipment tracking technology. Inside Nexus Distribution, a United States logistics provider. ... 3PL stands for third-party logistics provider, any firm that specializes in providing logistics services and which is independent from the manufacturers logistics division. ... Jump to: navigation, search Supply chain management (SCM) is the process of planning, implementating, and controling the operations of the supply chain with the purpose to satisfy customer requirements as efficiently as possible. ...

Petroleum Services

Crowley operates petroleum barges and tankers in the United States. The company provides chemical parcel transportation and bulk petroleum transportation throughout the North American coasts, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and to a lesser degree internationally. Crowley's tank vessels include ships, articulated tug and barge units, and conventional tugs and barges. Ships and articulated barges range in size from 20,000 DWT to 50,000 DWT, and Crowley's U.S. West Coast coastal tank barges and Alaska line haul fleet range from 5.500 DWT to 16,200 DWT. Crowley also deploys some of the newest articulated tug barges in the industry to carry various petroleum products on the U.S. West Coast. Jump to: navigation, search Nodding donkey pumping an oil well near Sarnia, Ontario, 2001 Petroleum (from Greek petr – rock and oleum – oil), crude oil, sometimes colloquially called black gold, is a thick, dark brown or greenish liquid. ... Jump to: navigation, search Self propelled barge carrying bulk crushed stone A barge is a flat-bottomed boat, built mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods. ... Tanker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: The Last Frontier, The Land of the Midnight Sun Other U.S. States Capital Juneau Largest city Anchorage Governor Frank Murkowski (R) Senators Ted Stevens (R) Lisa Murkowski (R) Official language(s) English Area 663,267 mi² / 1,717,854 km² (1st)  - Land 571... Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: The Aloha State Other U.S. States Capital Honolulu Largest city Honolulu Governor Linda Lingle (R) Senators Daniel Inouye (D) Daniel Akaka (D) Official language(s) Hawaiian and English Area 28,337 km² (43rd)  - Land 16,649 km²  - Water 11,672 km² (41. ... Jump to: navigation, search TUG is a three-letter acronym which can stand for: Graz University of Technology in Graz, Austria the TeX Users Group The Ultimate Group, an entertainment production company, founded by Chris Stokes Tie Up Games (a form of bondage) For the word tug, see Tug (disambiguation). ... Dead weight tonnage refers to the weight, in long tons, that a ship can safely carry when fully loaded. ...

In Alaska, Crowley sells and delivers various fuels, packaged petroleum products, lubricants and oil spill cleanup products. The company also transports general cargo on combination fuel and freight barges between marine/fuel terminals and remote sites. A lubricant (colloquially, lube, although this usually refers to personal lubricants) is a substance (usually a liquid) introduced between two moving surfaces to reduce the friction and wear between them. ... Jump to: navigation, search Volunteers cleaning up the aftermath of the Prestige oil spill An oil spill is the leaking of oil (generally, petroleum) into the natural environment, usually the ocean. ...

The company's marine/fuel terminals distribute and sell petroleum products throughout Alaska. Crowley's Service Oil & Gas, Inc. operates petroleum distribution and tank storage facilities and operates retail gas stations in Alaska. Modern gas station A filling station, gas station or petrol station is a facility that sells fuel for road motor vehicles – usually petrol (US: gas/gasoline), diesel fuel and LPG. The term gas station is mostly particular to the United States of America and Canada, where petrol is known as...

Marine Services

Crowley has long-term relationships with many of the world's most respected energy companies, providing solutions to difficult exploration and production challenges. Support services draw upon several disciplines including upstream logistics, shorebase services, ocean towing and transportation, marine engineering, offshore construction support, Alaska Energy Support Services and Environmental, Safety and Quality Assurance. Areas of operation extend from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to offshore Brazil to Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East. Prudhoe Bay is a census-designated place located in North Slope Borough, Alaska. ... Sakhalin (Russian: Сахалин), also Saghalien, 库页岛 (Ku Ye Dao, Chinese), or Karafuto (Japanese: 樺太) is a large elongated island in the North Pacific, lying between 45° 50 and 54° 24 N, in East Siberia, Russia. ...

Crowley provides ocean towing and transportation services on a worldwide basis. They have staff, equipment and expertise to provide transportation and logistics services for general cargo movements, and offshore production components. Crowley's fleet of tugs and barges provides the foundation for towing and transportation solutions.

Crowley owns and operates a fleet of ship assist and escort tugs. Harbor towing services in Oakland, San Diego and Los Angeles, California, as well as Seattle and Tacoma, Washington consist of escort and docking services for tankers, container ships and other vessels as they enter and depart from the harbors. Tugs in Valdez, Alaska and North Puget Sound assist large tankers and provide both tethered and untethered escort services. Crowley tugs based in these areas are outfitted for firefighting services, and barges based in Valdez also provide oil spill response services. Jump to: navigation, search Aerial view looking west over downtown Oakland, Lake Merritt and the Port of Oakland. ... San Diego County in the Southwest corner of California. ... This article is about the largest city in California. ... City nickname Emerald City City bird Great Blue Heron City flower Dahlia City mottos The City of Flowers The City of Goodwill City song Seattle, the Peerless City Mayor Greg Nickels County King County Area   - Total   - Land   - Water   - % water 369. ... Jump to: navigation, search Tacoma, with Mount Rainier in background City nickname: The City of Destiny Location Location of Tacoma in Pierce County and Washington State Government County Pierce Mayor Bill Baarsma (NP) Physical characteristics Area      Land      Water 162. ... Jump to: navigation, search Valdez is a city located in Valdez-Cordova Census Area, Alaska. ... Puget Sound Puget Sound is an arm (sound) of the Pacific Ocean in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. ...

Crowley and its TITAN subsidiary provide marine salvage and emergency response services in the United States as well as international locations, both as an independent contractor and through the joint venture Marine Response Alliance. MRA provides access to rescue towing, lightering, fendering, salvage and fire fighting in all U.S. Captain of the Port zones, enabling vessel owners and operators to comply with Federal and state regulations.

Crowley provides ship management through a variety of independent subsidiaries and offers crewing, technical and commercial services for a variety of third-party customers, including the U.S. Government.

External links

• Crowley corporate web site
• Crowley's TITAN Salvage subsidiary