Based in Seattle, Washington, Foss offers a complete range of maritime transportation and logistics services. Whether it’s solving transportation challenges in remote parts of the world or efficiently handling everyday harbor jobs, Foss prides itself on always offering customers safe and innovative solutions.

For more than a century, Foss Maritime has set the standard for marine transportation with leading edge technology, engineering, and shipbuilding. Combining global reach with local expertise, Foss is recognized for its state-of-the-art fleet, experienced and dedicated crews, knowledgeable customer service staff, and world-class engineers.

Along with our independent subsidiaries the company employs thousands of people throughout the United States. With hundreds of tugs and barges we provide harbor services and transportation operations in all major U.S. West Coast ports – including the Columbia and Snake River system. Internationally, Foss supports customers across the Pacific Rim, in Europe, South America and the Arctic.

Every day, our tugboats, barges and people are at work helping our customers succeed in a competitive and challenging market. With a company-wide commitment to safety and the environment, our seasoned crews and staff provide our customers with safe, reliable service to get the job done right.

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 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 through to production and proper outfitting of the vessel.

OUR OWNERSHIP
Foss Maritime Company is wholly owned by Saltchuk Resources, a privately owned family investment company formed in 1982 and based in the Pacific Northwest.

Saltchuk has over $2 billion of assets invested in numerous operating companies in several different business groups, including deep water shipping logistics, ship management, tug and barge operations, fuel distribution, and trucking.

Foss regularly partners with its sister companies in the Saltchuk portfolio to offer a diverse range of maritime transportation services. Please visit our Global Network to learn more.

Our Vision
Our Vision is to be the best towage company in North America

Our Mission
Our mission is to provide maritime services without equal and unsurpassed customer service. We achieve this through:
 

• A steadfast focus on our customers’ needs and preferences in everything we do.
• Relentless continuous improvement – Safety, Operations, Compliance.
• Continuing to extend and expand our operations – with the goal to be competitive globally.
• Developing our world class workforce by fostering an environment of mutual trust and respect.

Our Promise
ALWAYS SAFE. ALWAYS READY.
For Foss, this is more than a tagline; it represents the way we conduct business to meet the needs of customers worldwide. We have the ability and the commitment to serve the widest range of customer needs with the best operators, management, and equipment available, on any part of the globe. We are committed to providing safe, reliable, environmentally responsible, and competitively priced services.

Our Core Values
Foss Maritime Company is committed to providing our customers with world-class marine services. To achieve this stance of Operational Excellence, we are dedicated to the Foss core values that emphasize safety and quality:

• SAFETY of people
• Integrity
• Continual Improvement
• Quality Workplace
• Customer Focus
• Stewardship of Resources
• Custodian of the Environment
• Community Minded

Our Company-Wide Operating Code

We want to be the kind of place we would all be proud for our children to work. We expect the employees to always be honest and ethical in the performance of their Company’s business and to meet the highest standards of business behavior.

We are Safe

We put safety first.  Nothing is more important than having every one of us go home to our families without having been injured at work.

We are Reliable

We take care of our customers. We deliver reliable and dependable services to our customers. To make this happen, we recruit and employ people who share our values, continually reinvest in our assets, and work hard to improve our business every day.

We conduct business with honesty and integrity. Fair and open dealings are the cornerstone of the way we interact with each other, our customers, suppliers, and stakeholders. We are always honest and ethical in the performance of our Company’s business and meet the highest standards of business behavior. We believe that ethical conduct is an important part of achieving operational excellence and financial success.

We are Committed

We are committed to each other. Our collective success depends on the dedication and engagement of each of us. We take pride in exceptional performance. We work to create opportunities for growth and advancement. We are building a supportive, mutually respectful culture that helps us achieve our shared goals through strong teamwork. We want Saltchuk to be the kind of place where we would all be proud for our children to work.

We are committed to protecting the environment. We operate in a way that minimizes negative impacts on the environment. Our goal is to be an industry leader and innovator in our stewardship of the environment.

We are committed to our communities. We take pride in being good corporate citizens. We intend to be an economic and social asset in every community we touch.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

At Foss we recognize that our employees are the foundation of our company. The Foss family is made up of more than 500 knowledgeable, dedicated, and experienced people – shoreside and mariners. With unique and exciting opportunities, interesting and rewarding work, Foss has one of the industry’s highest rates of employee longevity. One of our greatest compliments comes from employees who encourage their family members to come to work for us.

If we’ve piqued your sense of adventure, be sure to explore our open positions.