Kirby Corp. KEX

What this company does

Kirby Corporation transports bulk liquid products throughout the Mississippi River System, on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, and coastwise along all three United States coasts. The Company has approximately 5,233 employees, the large majority of whom are in the United States. It conducts operations, through its subsidiaries, in two reportable business segments: marine transportation and distribution and services. As of December 31, 2025, KMT operated 1,105 inland tank barges with 24.5 million barrels of capacity, an average of 266 inland towboats, 28 coastal tank barges with 2.9 million barrels of capacity, 24 coastal tugboats, four offshore dry-bulk cargo barges, three offshore tugboats and one docking tugboat. No single customer of KMT accounted for 10% or more of the Company's revenues in 2025, 2024, or 2023. Through KDS, the Company provides equipment and after-market parts and services for power generation systems, engines, transmissions, reduction gears, electric motors, drives and controls, and specialized electrical distribution and control systems used in power generation, marine, on-highway, oilfield services, and other industrial applications. Kirby Corporation is a Nevada corporation, incorporated in 1969, although the history of the Company goes back to 1921.

Written from the business description in KIRBY CORPORATION's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 17 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.