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Kirby Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides marine transportation and diesel engine services to the marine and power generation markets in the United States. The company operates through two segments, Marine Transportation and Diesel Engine Services. The Marine Transportation segment engages in the inland transportation of petrochemicals, black oil products, refined petroleum products, and agricultural chemicals by tank barges; and offshore transportation of dry-bulk cargoes by barges, as well as provides transportation services for inland and offshore barge operators, oil servic

Kirby Corporation ( KEX ), through its subsidiaries, provides marine transportation and diesel engine services to the marine and power generation markets in the United States. The company operates through two segments, Marine Transportation and Diesel Engine Services.

The Marine Transportation segment engages in the inland transportation of petrochemicals, black oil products, refined petroleum products, and agricultural chemicals by tank barges; and offshore transportation of dry-bulk cargoes by barges, as well as provides transportation services for inlan

The company's diesel engine services segment accounts for about a quarter of its total revenues, and acquisitions over the past year have helped it boost profits to record levels. The division's original focus was overhauling a