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Reported fleet size
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No published figure available
Container capacity
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Not a ranked container line
Gross tonnage on record
90,225
Summed over 36 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO), which started as Edison Chouest Boat Rentals in 1960, is a family of companies in the marine transportation business based in Cut Off, Louisiana. ECO owns and operates a fleet of platform supply vessels, Subsea Construction / IMR vessels, a Riserless Light Well Intervention vessel, Anchor handling tug supply vessels, Oil Spill Response Vessels, and Well Stimulation Vessels, as well as an independently owned fleet of Research Vessels and Ice Breakers.
Edison Chouest Offshore operates five shipyards:
North American Shipbuilding (NAS) in Larose, Louisiana was founded in 1974 on the Dixie Delta Canal running to Lake Salvador. 29.585°N 90.375°W / 29.585; -90.375
Gulf Ship LLC, in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 2007 30.427°N 89.0455°W / 30.427; -89.0455
Tampa Ship, the former Tampa Bay Shipbuilding, founded in 2008. 27.926°N 82.444°W / 27.926; -82.444
La Ship, in Houma, Louisiana, founded in 2011 29.547°N 90.7019°W / 29.547; -90.7019
North American Fabricators, (NAF), in Houma, Louisiana, founded in 1996 (now part of LaShip) 29.5699°N 90.700°W / 29.5699; -90.700
Estaleiro NavShip, in Navegantes, Brazil at Superporto do Açu on the Itajaí-Açu river founded in 2005 26.878°S 48.689°W / -26.878; -48.689
ECO's offshore vessels range from 109 feet to 525 feet.
Corporate profile
Corporate structure
Services and products
Subsidiaries and units (5)
Fleet on record
Composition of the 42 vessels this registry attributes to Edison Chouest Offshore. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.
By flag state
By shipbuilder
Delivery history
Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. 3 deliveries fall inside this window.
| Year | Deliveries | Ships delivered | Gross tonnage added | Fleet on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 4,539 | 39 | |
| 2018 | 1 | 4,828 | 40 | |
| 2019 | 0 | — | 40 | |
| 2020 | 0 | — | 40 | |
| 2021 | 1 | 2,499 | 41 | |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 41 | |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 41 | |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 41 | |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 41 | |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 41 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9670341 | Unclassified | United States | 2013 | 7,115 | — | 96.9 m | LaShip | |
| 9274991 | Unclassified | United States | 2002 | 3,191 | — | 79.3 m | North American Fabricators |
Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.
In context
Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
With 42 vessels attributed to it here, Edison Chouest Offshore is the 21st largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.
United States is the country of registration for 144 commercial operators in this directory, among which Edison Chouest Offshore ranks 1st by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 435 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in United States.
Founded in 1960, Edison Chouest Offshore is 66 years old. This directory holds 74 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.
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Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q5338367, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Edison Chouest Offshore on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.