HOUSTON, Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Kirby
Corporation ("Kirby") (NYSE:KEX) will announce its 2011 fourth
quarter and year results at 5:00 p.m.
central time on Thursday, February
2, 2012. A conference call to discuss the results will
be held at 10:00 a.m. central time on
Friday, February 3, 2012.
The telephone numbers to call to participate in the conference
call are 800-446-2782 for domestic callers and 847-413-3235 for
international callers. Please dial in five to ten minutes
prior to the start of the call. The host is Steve Holcomb. The confirmation number is
31547305.
An audio conference call playback will be available starting at
1:00 p.m. central time on
Friday, February 3, 2012 through
5:00 p.m. central time on
Friday, March 2, 2012 by dialing
888-843-7419 for domestic callers and 630-652-3042 for
international callers. The passcode is 31547305#. A live
audio webcast of the conference call will be available to the
public and a replay will be available after the conference call by
visiting Kirby's website at http://www.kirbycorp.com/.
The financial and other information to be discussed in the
conference call will be available in the 2011 fourth quarter and
year press release and in a Form 8-K to be furnished by Kirby on
the day of the call, both of which will be posted on Kirby's
website at http://www.kirbycorp.com/ in the Investor Relations
section under Press Releases and SEC Filings.
Kirby Corporation, based in Houston,
Texas, is the nation's largest domestic tank barge operator,
transporting bulk liquid products throughout the Mississippi River
System, the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, and coastwise along all
three United States coasts and in
Alaska and Hawaii. Kirby
transports petrochemicals, black oil products, refined petroleum
products and agricultural chemicals by tank barge. Through
the diesel engine services segment, Kirby provides after-market
service for medium-speed and high-speed diesel engines and
reduction gears used in marine and power generation
applications. Kirby also distributes and services high-speed
diesel engines, transmissions, pumps, compression products, and
manufactures oilfield service equipment, including hydraulic
fracturing equipment, for land-based pressure pumping and oilfield
service markets.
Statements contained in this press release with respect to the
future are forward-looking statements. These statements
reflect management's reasonable judgement with respect to future
events. Forward-looking statements involve risks and
uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from
those anticipated as a result of various factors, including
cyclical or other downturns in demand, significant pricing
competition, unanticipated additions to industry capacity, changes
in the Jones Act or in U.S. maritime policy and practice, fuel
costs, interest rates, weather conditions, and the timing,
magnitude and the number of acquisitions made by Kirby.
Forward-looking statements are based on currently available
information and Kirby assumes no obligation to update such
statements. A list of additional risk factors can be found in
Kirby's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010 and quarterly report on Form
10-Q for the period ended September 30,
2011 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
SOURCE Kirby Corporation