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Company Overview
Based in Seattle, Washington, Foss Maritime Company offers a complete range of maritime transportation and logistics services to customers on the U.S. West and East coasts, across the Pacific Rim, Europe, South America and around the globe.
For more than a century, Foss has set the standard for marine transportation with leading edge technology, engineering, and shipbuilding. The company employs approximately 1,000 people throughout the United States, who provide harbor services and transportation operations in all major U.S. West Coast ports—including the Columbia and Snake River system—as well as U.S. East Cost ports. Internationally, Foss supports customers across the Pacific Rim, in Europe, South America and the Arctic.
In addition to transportation and maritime logistics, Foss also provides engineering and shipbuilding services. The company's mobile response repair service can send a team of maritime engineers to service vessels anywhere in North America within 24 hours.
With two full-service shipyards and expert marine engineering group, Foss helps customers throughout the entire life cycle of a project, which includes analyzing vessel and equipment requirements for a specific job, to designing a new build or vessel modification, all the way through to production and proper outfitting of the vessel with the right gear for the job.
Foss offices are located in:
- Seattle, Washington (corporate office)
- Portland, Oregon
- San Francisco
- Los Angeles / Long Beach
- Boston, Massachusetts (operated by Foss subsidiary, Constellation Maritime Company)
Foss is a member of Marine Resources Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Saltchuk Resources, Inc.