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water transport

Kirby Corporation

Headquarters: Houston
Founded: 1921
Employees: 5,200

Official website

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

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Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

7,001

Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Kirby Corporation is

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Kirby Corporation is an American company headquartered in Houston, Texas. It is the largest liquid cargo barge operator in the United States, transporting bulk liquid products by boat. Kirby operates throughout the Mississippi River system, on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, along all three American coasts, and in Alaska and Hawaii. Products transported by Kirby include petrochemicals, black oil, refined petroleum products, and agricultural chemical products by tank barge. Kirby also owns and operates eight ocean-going barge and tug units transporting dry-bulk commodities in American coastal trade.

Through its diesel engine services segment, Kirby is an after-market service provider for medium- and high-speed diesel engines, reduction gears, and ancillary products for marine and power generation applications. Kirby also serves as a distributor and service provider for high-speed diesel engines, transmissions, pumps and compression products, and manufactures and refurbishes oilfield service equipment, including pressure pumping units, for the land-based pressure pumping and oilfield service markets.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: water transport
Legal form: —
Country of registration: United States
Headquarters: Houston
Formed in: —
Founded: 1921
Dissolved: —
Employees: 5,200
Listed on: New York Stock Exchange
Ticker: —
ISIN: US4972661064
Legal Entity Identifier: I7NO6FZO5GUCG585T325
Head office coordinates: 29.7628, -95.3831

Ships on record here: 1
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: —
Oldest vessel on record: —
Newest vessel on record: —
Largest vessel by tonnage: 7,001
Average tonnage: 7,001
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 1 vessels this registry attributes to Kirby Corporation. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Barge1

By flag state

United States1

Vessel records

Ships on record

1 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Lemon Creek	8637378	Barge	United States	—	7,001	—	—	—

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

How Kirby Corporation compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 1 vessels attributed to it here, Kirby Corporation is the 492nd 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 Kirby Corporation ranks 55th 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 1921, Kirby Corporation is 105 years old. This directory holds 52 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.