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Largest Marine Transportation Public Companies in the US
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Kirby Corporation, Matson, International Seaways, Tidewater and DHT Holdings.
 | Kirby Corp is a domestic tank barge operator, transporting bulk liquid products throughout three United States coasts. The Company transports petrochemicals, liquid cargoes, inland waterway systems, and dry bulk cargoes. The Company conducts operations in two reportable business segments: The Marine transportation segment which provides marine transportation services, operating tank barges and towing vessels transporting bulk liquid products, and the Distribution and services segment, which provides after-market service, and genuine replacement parts for engines, transmissions, reduction gears, and power generation equipment used in oil and gas and commercial and industrial applications. The company's majority revenue is generated from the Marine Transportation segment. | $142 | +29% | $8B | $9B | 2.6x | 11.1x | ||
| Matson Inc is engaged in providing ocean transportation and logistics services. The business segments of the company are Ocean Transportation which provides ocean freight transportation services to the domestic non-contiguous economies of Hawaii, Alaska, California, Okinawa, and different islands in the South Pacific, and Logistics segment which offers long haul and regional highway trucking services, warehousing and distribution services, supply chain management, and freight forwarding services. The firm generates the majority of its revenue from the Ocean Transportation segment. | $183 | +62% | $6B | $6B | 1.8x | 7.3x | ||
| International Seaways Inc owns and operates a fleet of oceangoing vessels engaged in the transportation of crude oil and petroleum products. The company's vessel operations are organized into two segments: Crude Tankers and Product Carriers. The fleet consists of ULCC, VLCC, Suezmax, Aframax, and Panamax crude tankers, as well as LR1, LR2, and MR product carriers. | $92 | +147% | $5B | $5B | 5.7x | 9.3x | ||
| Tidewater Inc provides marine and transportation services to the offshore energy industry. The company's vessels and associated services support all phases of offshore crude oil and natural gas (also referred to as oil and gas) exploration activities, field development, production, and maintenance, as well as windfarm development and maintenance. Its services include towing and anchor handling for mobile offshore drilling units; transporting supplies and personnel necessary to sustain drilling, workovers, production activities, field abandonment, dismantlement, and restoration activities; and Others. The group manages its business through five segments including the Americas, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Europe/Mediterranean, and West Africa. | $81 | +104% | $4B | $4B | 3.1x | 9.5x | ||
| DHT Holdings Inc is a crude oil tanker company. Its fleet trades internationally and consists of crude oil tankers in the VLCC. The group generates revenues from time charter and spot market operations. It operates through integrated management companies in Monaco, Norway, Singapore, and India. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the shipping revenues. | $19 | +64% | $3B | $3B | 6.9x | 10.4x | ||
| Teekay Tankers Ltd is a provider of marine services to the international oil and natural gas industries and an operator of medium-sized oil tankers. The company operates in two segments: Tankers, which consists of the operation of all of the company's tankers (including the operations from those tankers employed on full service lightering contracts), and the company's U.S. based ship-to-ship support service operations (including its lightering support services provided as part of full service lightering operations); and Marine Services, which consists of operational and maintenance marine services provided to the Australian government, Australian energy companies and other third parties. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the Tankers segment. | $83 | +88% | $3B | $2B | 2.2x | 4.7x | ||
| Stolt-Nielsen Ltd is a transportation and logistics company domiciled in Bermuda. The company organizes itself into six business segments: tankers, tank containers, terminals, Stolt-Nielsen Gas, Stolt Sea Farm and Corporate and Other. The Group generates the majority of its operating revenue through its tanker segment from the transportation of liquids by sea and inland waterways under contracts of affreightment or through contracts on the spot market. Geographically, the company generates a majority of its revenue from the United States and the rest from Belgium. Malaysia, China, and other regions. | $33 | +24% | $2B | $5B | 1.6x | 5.3x | ||
| Costamare Inc is an international owner and operator of containerships and dry bulk vessels. The company charter its containerships to the liner companies, providing transportation of containerized cargoes. It charter its dry bulk vessels to a wide variety of customers, providing transportation for dry bulk cargoes. The company's fleet of vessels includes Cosco Guangzhou, Cosco Ningbo, Cosco Yantian, Vantage, Valor, Valiant, Maersk Kobe, and among others. Costamare provides services to ocean carriers that demand a high standard of safety and reliability. It generates a majority of its revenue from the United States of America. | $18 | +106% | $2B | $3B | 3.4x | 4.8x | ||
| Dorian LPG Ltd is an international liquefied petroleum gas shipping company focused on owning and operating gas carriers, or VLGCs. The company currently owns and operates around 22 modern VLGCs, including nineteen new fuel-efficient 84,000 cbm ECO-design VLGCs. Dorian LPG has offices in Connecticut, USA, London, United Kingdom, and Athens, Greece. IT operates in one reportable segment, the international transportation of LPG. | $40 | +88% | $2B | $2B | 5.9x | 10.9x | ||
| SFL Corp Ltd is an international ship-owning and chartering company. The company is engaged in transporting crude oil and oil products, dry bulk and containerized cargoes, freight of rolling cargo, and offshore drilling and related activities. | $12 | +40% | $2B | $4B | 5.6x | 10.4x | ||
| Nordic American Tankers Ltd owns and operates double-hull crude oil tankers. It is an international tanker company that owns double-hull Suezmax tankers. It operates vessels in the spot market or on spot market-related charters according to cooperative arrangements with third parties. The company's fleet consists of crude oil tankers, and all of its vessels are employed in the spot market. The company has only one type of vessel - Suezmax crude oil tankers. It operates in markets that are very competitive and based mainly on supply and demand. | $6 | +123% | $1B | $2B | 5.6x | 15.5x | ||
| Genco Shipping & Trading Ltd is an international shipping company specializing in the transportation of iron ore, coal, grain, steel products and other drybulk cargoes. It is involved in the ocean transportation of drybulk cargoes. The company operates in one segment, with two reportable segment: Major and Minor bulk fleet. It generates revenue through time charter agreements, spot market voyage charters, pool agreements and spot market-related time charters. oyage revenues also include the sale of bunkers consumed during short-term time charters pursuant to the terms of the time charter agreement. | $26 | +96% | $1B | $1B | 4.1x | 16.4x | ||
| Ardmore Shipping Corp provides seaborne transportation of petroleum products and chemicals world-wide to oil majors, national oil companies, oil and chemical traders, and chemical companies, with its modern, fuel-efficient fleet of mid-size product and chemical tankers. The Company operates its business in one operating segment, the transportation of refined petroleum products and chemicals. | $20 | +103% | $797M | $855M | 2.8x | 10.6x | ||
| FTAI Infrastructure Inc is engaged in five segments; Railroad segment includes five freight railroads and one switching company that provide rail service to certain manufacturing and production facilities, the Jefferson Terminal segment consists of a multi-modal crude oil and refined products terminal and other related assets. Repauno segment consists of a 1,630-acre deep-water port located along the Delaware River with an underground storage cavern, a new multipurpose dock, a rail-to-ship transloading system, and multiple industrial development opportunities. Power and Gas segment is comprised of an equity method investment in Long Ridge, and Sustainability and Energy Transition segment is comprised of Aleon/Gladieux, Clean Planet, and CarbonFree. | $5 | -20% | $574M | $6B | 11.1x | 18.5x | ||
| Pangaea Logistics Solutions Ltd and its subsidiaries provide seaborne drybulk logistics and transportation services. It transports various drybulk cargoes including grains, coal, iron, ore, pig, iron, hot briquetted iron, bauxite, alumina, cement clinker, dolomite, and limestone. The company provides ocean transportation services to clients utilizing an ocean-going fleet of motor vessels in the Handymax, Supramax, Ultramax, Panamax, and Post-Panamax segments. Its services include cargo loading, cargo discharge, vessel chartering, voyage planning, and technical vessel management. The company derives all of its revenues from contracts of affreightment, voyage charters and time charters. Geographically, it derives key revenue from the United States, followed by Canada, Germany, and others. | $8 | +74% | $511M | $560M | 0.9x | 6.5x | ||
| Seacor Marine Holdings Inc provides marine and support transportation services to offshore energy facilities globally. The company operates and manages a diverse fleet of offshore support vessels that deliver cargo and personnel to offshore installations, including wind farms, handle anchors, and mooring equipment for offshore rigs and platforms. Its geographical segment includes the United States (Gulf of Mexico), Africa and Europe, Middle East and Asia, and Latin America. | $7 | +39% | $201M | $491M | 2.2x | 7.7x | ||
| Median | $23 | +81% | $2B | $3B | 3.2x | 9.9x |
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