Foss is a full service maritime company focused on solving its customers’ toughtest marine transportation and logistical challenges—close to home and in some of the most extreme environments in the world. 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.
With two full-service shipyards and an 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 operates a fleet of 70 tugs and 71 barges throughout the U.S. West Coast. The newest tug in the fleet is the Dolphin tug, the Campbell Foss, which was added to the fleet in 2005.