Kirby Corporation

Kirby Corporation
legal form	Corporation
ISIN	US4972661064
founding	1921
Seat	Houston , United States
management	David W. Grzebinski (President and CEO )
Number of employees	4,200
sales	2,148,000,000 US dollars
Branch	Inland shipping
Website	www.kirbycorp.com
As of December 31, 2015

The Kirby Corporation is an American barge shipping company based in Houston . It owns 901 tank barges and 241 tugs for the American inland waterways as well as 69 tank barges and 80 tugs for coastal shipping. The main goods in transit are fuels and petrochemicals.

The company was founded in 1921 as an oil and gas exploration company and entered the inland shipping industry in 1969 with the acquisition of Dixie Carriers.

Kirby Corporation operates the largest fleet of tank barges in the United States. The company also offers a diesel engine service, which contributes 22.5% to sales.

Over the past 20 years, Kirby Corporation has acquired numerous smaller competitors, including the inland shipping businesses of Ashland Petroleum , Dow Chemical , Union Carbide , ExxonMobil , Lyondell Chemical, and Seacor Holdings .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} History
2. ^ Officers
3. ↑ ^{a b} Form 10-K 2015
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Presentation ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , September 2016 
5. ↑ Investor Overview. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .