Crowley Maritime

Oakland-based Crowley Maritime Corporation, founded in 1892, is primarily a family and employee-owned company that provides diversified transportation and logistics services in domestic and international markets by means of four operating lines of business: Liner Services; Logistics Services; Petroleum Services and Marine Services. Other services provided within these business lines include contract towing and transportation; ship assist and escort; energy support; salvage and emergency response; vessel management, and petroleum and chemical transportation, distribution and sales.

The company employs approximately 3,800 people and provides its services using a fleet of more than 300 vessels, consisting of RO/RO (roll on roll off) vessels, LO/LO (lift on lift off) vessels, tankers, tugs and barges. Crowley's land-based facilities and equipment include terminals, warehouses, tank farms, office buildings, trucks, trailers, containers, chassis, cranes and other specialized vehicles.

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 certain members of the Crowley family and Company employees, and its shares do not trade on any national securities exchange or in any market.

Liner Services Crowley is the leading ocean cargo carrier 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 Crowley's extensive fleet of specialty equipment and vessels.

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. Crowley's offices and distribution centers can be found throughout the United States and Central America. 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 sophisticated materials and shipment tracking technology.

Petroleum Services Crowley is the largest independent operator of 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 tug 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 (ATBs) in the industry to carry various petroleum products on the U.S. West Coast.

In Alaska, Crowley sells and delivers heating fuel, diesel fuel, unleaded gasoline, jet fuel, aviation gasoline, propane, 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. The combination of strategically located marine/fuel terminals, and a tank barge fleet enables Crowley to provide fuel and other supplies to a geographically diverse customer base within the brief ice-free delivery season in remote areas, and a truck fleet delivers year round to interior locations on the Alaska highway system.

Crowley's marine/fuel terminals in Aniak, Bethel, Fort Yukon, Galena, Hooper Bay, Iliamna, Kenai, Kotzebue, McGrath, Nenana, Nome, St. Mary's, and St. Michael distribute and sell petroleum products. Crowley's Service Oil & Gas, Inc. operates petroleum distribution and tank storage facilities in Delta Junction, Fairbanks, Glennallen, Palmer, Talkeetna, Valdez, and Wasilla. Crowley operates retail gas stations at Aniak, Bethel, Iliamna, Kenai, Nome, McGrath, and St. Mary's and Service Oil & Gas operates retail gas stations at, Palmer, Parks Highway, and Wasilla.

Marine Services

Crowley has long-term relationships with many of the world's most respected energy companies, providing them with creative solutions to their most 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 Russia Far East.

Crowley provides ocean towing and transportation services on a worldwide basis. Crowley has the staff, equipment and expertise to provide safe and reliable transportation and logistics services for general cargo movements, offshore production components, including jackets and modules, ship tows and other projects requiring heavy lift or specialized marine transportation services. Crowley's diverse fleet of high-horsepower tugs and large barges provides the foundation for designing towing and transportation solutions to meet the specific needs of each customer.

Crowley owns and operates one of the most advanced fleets of ship assist and escort tugs in the world. 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.

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