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Top 25 Vessel operators based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 187 vessel operators headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 10,984 professional contacts across them, including 1,818 with verified work emails. Houston is the largest hub.
This list covers vessel operators headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026.
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The 25 largest vessel operators based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,853 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Recognized Worldwide for Diverse and Dynamic Marine Transportation Solutions Founded as Edison Chouest Boat Rental in Galliano, Louisiana, in 1960, the Edison Chouest Offshore…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 679 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Marquette Transportation Company, LLC is one of the largest marine transportation service companies in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 389 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Unsurpassed for 160 Years We operate a fleet of more than 60 tugboats, crew boats, and barges in 13 locations along the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 383 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Centerline Logistics is a leading provider of marine transportation services in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 363 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Vane Brothers Company has served the maritime industry for more than 125 years, providing a wide range of services that includes ship bunkering and lightering; the delivery of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 320 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1933, Canal Barge Company, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 306 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Liberian Registry has a long-established track record of combining the highest standards of safety for vessels and crews with the highest levels of responsive and innovative…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 138 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Patriot Maritime is a leading maritime contractor to the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 133 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Turn Services is one of the largest independent fleeting and shifting companies in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 124 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Reinauer Transportation Companies is a leader in the maritime industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1940, Parker Towing Company is one of the largest barge lines in the southeastern United States, operating a fleet of towboats and over 350 open and covered hopper…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Keystone Shipping is a U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Moran Shipping Agencies, Inc is a family owned business that began operations in 1937 and has since grown to become the largest privately owned vessel agency in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Western Rivers Boat Mgt Inc is a marine transportation company based out of Paducah, KY.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Stevens Towing Company is a family-owned shipyard and midsize freight transportation company based on Yonges Island, SC just south of Charleston with regional offices in Edenton…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a "tugboat" company that prides itself on providing safe and professional service over a wide spectrum of tugboat and towing services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1921, Houston pilots have maneuvered vessels safely and efficiently to and from docks via the narrow and congested Houston Ship Channel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Belle Chasse Marine Transportation, LLC located in 5813 Citrus Blvd, Harahan, LA, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Saltchuk Marine family, with the tugboat as the center of our services, is steeped in a rich and storied history of innovation and service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Maritime Partners, LLC is a privately held company leading the way in maritime assets, vessel leasing solutions, and construction financing in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Chem Carriers provides first class marine transportation of liquid cargoes along the inland waterways of the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fathom Resources (Fathom), is a marine service provider established in 2002 with offices located in New Bedford, Massachusetts and Middletown, Rhode Island.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Puget Sound Pilots’ mission is to ensure against the loss of lives, loss of or damage to property and vessels, and to protect the marine environment by maintaining efficient and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cashman Equipment Corp.(CEC), headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, was founded in 1995 as a barge rental and marine contracting company with a fleet of 10 barges, 9 of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: vessel operators. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names vessel operators.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of vessel operators, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name vessel operators. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Vessel operators based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 187 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among vessel operators, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “vessel operators”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names vessel operators), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among vessel operators, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,818 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names vessel operators, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many vessel operators are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 187 vessel operators headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Edison Chouest Offshore, headquartered in Cut Off, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most vessel operators?
Houston leads with 10 headquartered companies, followed by Paducah (6) and Seattle (6).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,818 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 187 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.