Keystone Capabilities
Keystone Shipping manages a fleet of more than 25 vessels worldwide – including tankers, dry bulk vessels, tugs, tank barges, and roll-on/roll-off vessels. On any given day, our vessels are operating worldwide and throughout the coasts and waterways of the United States.
Keystone also has extensive experience operating chemical tankers, liquid and dry bulk marine terminals, and power generating facilities, among other industrial assets.
Petroleum Transport
For more than 115 years, Keystone has transported crude oil and petroleum products to deep water ports throughout the United States. Today, Keystone is the Commercial and Technical Operator of three U.S. Flag Tankers, the SEAKAY STAR, SEAKAY SKY, and SEAKAY VALOR, as well as one Articulated Tug Barge unit, the MILLVILLE/1964.
Rapid Emergency Response
Keystone manages Roll-On/Roll-Off vessels for the United States Maritime Administration, supporting the rapid deployment of both military assets and humanitarian relief. Since World War I, Keystone has played a role in nearly every major United State conflict, transporting equipment and supplies in support of the United States armed forces across the globe.
Construction Management
Maritime Transportation Solutions
The Keystone team comprises some of the most talented people industry-wide, with extensive experience and expertise in a broad range of maritime disciplines. We are skilled in assembling project teams to develop solutions for virtually any maritime logistics challenge worldwide.
Keystone provides staffing and placement of skilled individuals with mariner credentials across not only our Fleet, but to others within the industry. In addition to placing these seagoing positions, Keystone is also capable of placing temporary skilled labor for shoreside industrial opportunities.
Great Lakes Transport
Keystone’s Key Lakes subsidiaries operate, and perform the technical management of, eight vessels transporting a broad range of commodities to fresh water ports throughout the Great Lakes. The cargoes we carry include iron ore, taconite, sugar stone, limestone, coal, and other aggregates.
In addition to the safe handling of cargoes onboard these vessels, Key Lakes performs major engine overhauls, and conversion and life extension projects to ensure the longest, safest, and most efficient use of this Fleet.
Key Lakes has extensive safe-handling experience operating in these sensitive waters known for extreme temperatures and weather conditions.