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COASTAL SHIPPING

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers data shows that coastwise The Players – an Expanding & Impressive Line-Up receipts of petroleum products along the Atlantic Coast Kirby Corporation, a titan of the inland markets, reinvigo- (equivalent to U.S. DOE’s PADD 1) equated to 36.3 mil- rated its entry into the coastwise markets in 2011 with its pur- lion metric tons in 2015 (the last year where data is avail- chase of K-Sea Transportation (followed by its acquisition of able). This implies that intra-regional movements within Allied Towing the next year), providing it with a considerable

PADD 1 were at least 10 million tons (not including ATB