HOUSTON, Feb. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Kirby Corporation
("Kirby") (NYSE:KEX) announced today that Kirby will present at the
Credit Suisse Energy Conference, Stifel Nicolaus Transportation
Conference and the BB&T Capital Markets Transportation
Conference. Specifics of each conference are as follows:
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Credit
Suisse Energy Summit
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Location: Vail, Colorado
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Presenter: Joe Pyne, Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer
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Presentation date and time: Thursday, February
9, 2012, 1:10 p.m. EST
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Stifel
Nicolaus Transportation Conference
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Location: Key Biscayne, Florida
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Presenter: Joe Pyne, Chairman, and Chief
Executive Officer
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Presentation date and time: Wednesday, February
15, 2012, 8:30 a.m. EST
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BB&T Capital Markets Transportation
Conference
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Location: Coral Gables, Florida
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Presenter: Joe Pyne, Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer
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Presentation date and time: Thursday, February
16, 2012, 10:20 a.m. EST
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A live audio webcast of the presentations will be available to
the public and a replay will be available after the presentations
on Kirby's website, http://www.kirbycorp.com. A copy of the
material prepared by Kirby for the presentations will be available
at 7:00 a.m. central time on the day
of the presentations on Kirby's website. A replay of the
presentations will be available for 30 days.
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, 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 judgment 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 timing, magnitude
and number of acquisitions made by Kirby. Forward-looking
statements are based on currently available information and Kirby
assumes no obligation to update any 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