I see Foss Atlantic in Jacksonville advertising for mariners.
What is the story on Foss Atlantic?
Is this just Foss following TOTE and Crowley to Jacksonville?
Is another good, over 100 years old, Pacific Northwest tugboat company on its way to becoming another Southern Joe Bawss company?
Is the difference between the real Foss and Foss Atlantic going to be like the difference between TOTE Alaska and tote Jax?
What market opportunities is Foss hoping to exploit that have apparently been overlooked by Crowley, Moran, McAllister and all the other east coast companies?
Or is this just a little side venture for Puerto Rico reconstruction?
I gotcha , are they taking over the run from Crowley , or this is there own gig they have going on. The Crowley units have been slowing down coming in and out of philly
45 day hitches, wow. I wonder if that’s equal time? I wonder if the boats will be newer, comfortable equipment or junk? I wonder if you need an oceans license, I would suspect you would.
45 days is good. Probably even time. Of course an Oceans license is required. Foss will be fussy about who they hire as Masters. Probably senior guys with a lot experience on that run with the same or similar barges. Otherwise they will send in their longtime masters from Seattle. Foss has a lot of older boats, but they don’t run junk. Very strong safety culture.
Interesting. Crowley has their two new ConRos coming into that market though it seems like they’re running late on delivery from Halter. Saltchuck seems to be going after a big chunk of the PR business, seeing as they own TOTE, Foss and Tropical. Wonder if this was on the works before they got outmaneuvered by Pasha in Hawaii?
Foss Boston or formerly Constellation Maritime, was actually doing fairly well, they were doing better each month than the previous up until they shut down in Boston. The contracts from the west coast would transfer to the East coast, including Cosco and Kirby, so it was a decent load of work. Word on the street was BTT was getting nervous that Foss was taking more and more of the work. They did have 2 docking masters on call, with talk of hiring a third. I heard someone in corporate wanted to focus more on the big ports and cut out the smaller ones, therefore ports like Boston and Portland got cut.
As far as Foss in Jacksonville, I have no clue but perhaps they want to try breaking into the east coast market again.