HOUSTON, March 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Kirby
Corporation ("Kirby") (NYSE:KEX) announced today that Kirby will
present at the J.P. Morgan Aviation, Transportation & Defense
Conference on Thursday, March 15,
2012. Specifics of the conference are as follows:
J.P. Morgan Aviation, Transportation & Defense
Conference
Location: J.P. Morgan Conference Center, New York, NY
Presenter: Joe Pyne, Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer
Presentation date and time: Thursday,
March 15, 2012, 11:10 a.m.
EDT
A live audio webcast of the presentation will be available to
the public and a replay will be available after the presentation by
visiting Kirby's website at http://www.kirbycorp.com. A
copy of the material prepared by Kirby for the presentation will be
available at 7:00 a.m. CDT on
Thursday, March 15, 2012 on Kirby's
website. A replay of the presentation will be available
through April 13, 2012 on Kirby's
website.
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 and remanufactures oilfield service equipment,
including hydraulic fracturing equipment, for land-based pressure
pumping and oilfield service markets.
This press release and the presentation may contain statements
that may be considered to be 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, 2011, filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
SOURCE Kirby Corporation